Write an essay on The Truck Stop Killer

Write an essay on The Truck Stop Killer

For this Discussion Forum, respond to the following prompt in 250-300 words,
quoting the text at least once in your response. (Please note that quoted material
does not apply to your word count.) In addition, please respond to 3 peers. EWRT2 read the book and do the discussion in 250-300 words.
Stories of adventure and danger continually sell magazines. In fact, the old and worn
adage, "sex sells" would be recast as "adventure sells." Think back to Krakauer's "Into
Thin Air" and its original publication in Outside Magazine. Not only did it garner
considerable interest in Krakauer, but it also launched his lucrative book with the
same title. Interestingly, Vanessa Vaselka's article, "The Truck Stop Killer," about the
harrowing wilderness of interstate truck stops, including her own brush with death,
was published in GQ, a magazine which appeals primarily to male audiences. While
many readers would have a difficult time seeing Vaselka's essay as an adventure
narrative, I think others would see the parallels. Do you? She lives to tell the story of
survival amidst almost incomprehensible danger. In your response, reflect on the
placement of Vaselka's article in a men's magazine, analyze the impact of her
narrative on you as a reader, and comment on the way she constructed her essay.

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