Hunting For Hope: Chapters 1 and 2

Chapter One:

The first thing that is important to know about this statement is what the words mean. You hear the world ecology and move on, but I realized that I don’t actually know what specifically ecology is. According to dictionary.com ecology is “the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms”. I’m not entirely sure what this quote is saying so I’m just going to take a stab at it. The definition talks about organisms interacting with their environment not only involving trees, rivers, buildings ect., but also other organisms; which is the direction I believe Sanders was leaning towards. Meaning that in our lives of learning and growing our one on one interactions with others begins to depreciate the more we are hurt and let down by people in society. Which is a shame because often people become so wrapped up in their own opinions that the often start to close off new ideas, allowing for their minds to close.

In my experience with getting let down by people I do find it hard to let new people in because I’m scared of being burned and sometimes I think that everyone is going to be like the one person that got to me. Often it is hard to let wounds made by people heal up fully. Knowing more can be a good and bad thing in my opinion; it is what one does with extra information that makes the break between good and bad. I think that eye opening experiences cover a vast range of material. They can be helpful and hurtful and even both sometimes.

Chapter Two: Fretag Diagram

1. Exposition: Summer time, Colorado, specifically in The Rocky Mountains
2. Inciting incident: The father vs. son fight over sleeping at a higher altitude with wet ground or on dry ground.
3. Rising Action: Going out on the river choosing to go with the more advanced and all around challenging trip.
4. Climax: Hitting the really rough patch on the river in Poudre Canyon and him looking at his son, seeing that Jesse was truly 100 percent happy and engaged in paddling down this river. 
5. Falling action: When he realizes that Jesse and himself are going through a stage in their relationship at him and his own father never went through.
6. Resolution: The narrator states that he is going to change and stop looking at all the bad in the world but rather start to look for hope. 
7. Denouement: There are parts to life that we don’t have any control over how they get played out, but we have to have hope that “every little thing is going to be alright”.

Essay’s Purpose:

I think the denouement of this essay really sums up the purpose that we as a society of human beings have to be open and ready for things to change. Then when those changes happen have hope that whatever that change it’s going to work out and be alright. We can’t always control whats going to happen...but that’s what makes life so much more enjoyable.