Summaries

Here, you can get an overview of the source texts that are included in the assignment about living wild.

The text “The Wild Route: Leaving Work and Home for a Forest Life” is a video clip from a news story produced for NBC Left Field by journalist Sky Dylan-Robbins. The video presents a community of people who have decided to abandon modern life and live in a forest of North Carolina. The video is focused on both their current lifestyle and their reasons for leaving society behind.

The text “Wild at heart: how one woman and her husband live out in the woods” is an article from The Guardian newspaper written by Stefanie Marsh. The text looks at Miriam and Peter, a couple who live alone in the mountains of New Zealand. The article explores their reasons for adopting an alternative lifestyle and some of the benefits and challenges of living in the wilderness.

You can read a full summary of each text in the following sections.