case in point: idiocracy OR juniors on jon krakauer's non-fiction _into the wild_

these are from a prompt that instructed the students write an additional (creative/fictional) chapter for krakauer's book, revealing new info about chris mccandless aka alex supertramp, in the style of the author.

Chris was dropped off towards the end of the river where it meats up with highway 80. The river is the most peaceful chaos that any one can find. [...] Lake Tahoe is the most spectacular lake any human can look at.

Many of the people compared to McCandless were nutcases while some were indeed brilliant or well educated, but none of them seemed to be in particular that similar at al to McCandless in a special way.

It was a lush green forest with indiginous creatures, ivy bush with water drops coming down the green vines like leaves. Skyscraper-like trees reach to the sky covering the light from the vivid sun which on the ground looks kind of like a dance floor with the lights gleaming down through giant trees as high as a fifty story building.

It got Alex angry that Kate had to stop constantly stops and demands a drink of water and to rest. Finally, in a rage Alex tries to get her to get up and she slaps him, She pulls a knife on him. Alex knocks Kate over, takes his knife, and leaves her. Later, as they were walking, they run dog that strangely wondered around them like it was hungry.

NO JOKE, this next one came after the student plagarized the first page from thoreau and tuchman... THIS IS NOT A TEXT MESSAGE! YOU CAN'T USE 'u' IN A FORMAL PAPER!

''Are u a student here." "No im just passing through, hard to find a place to stay around here though." [...] "That's ok, U look like u need some sleep."