74 pages 2 hours read

Bill Bryson

A Walk in the Woods

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

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Essay Topics

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Discuss some of the rationalizations that Bill Bryson offers as to why he should hike the Appalachian Trail. To what extent do you think that these rationalizations actually played a role in his decision to do it?

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Describe and analyze the sense of foreboding that takes place in the narrative when Stephen Katz asks to come along and Bryson agrees.

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Discuss Benton MacKaye’s original vision for the trail back in the 1920s. In what ways was this vision carried out and in what ways was it not?