All his life all his parents did was give him things trying to buy him happiness. He didn’t want money or a new car. He just wanted love and to be at peace. That’s why he decided to leave and go off and do his own thing and try to find happiness not in money or success, but in love and peace. Another thing about the book, we hear about the author’s life and his comparison to
George and Lennie have a dream of owning a little farm where they can have freedom and happiness. This paradise does not exist in the world. At the end of the novel, when George has to kill Lennie, George becomes the loneliest, because he loses not only his best friend, but also the dream that he and Lennie shared. The tragic ending’s greatest impact is that the hope for a companionship that can help and protect each other dies with Lennie. True to George’s original estimation, he will go through his life alone.
Disdainful of the materialistic, cash driven world, he detaches himself physically and mentally to build a new life as Alexander Supertramp. In Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, McCandless abandoned his life and identity, as he went on this journey. Feeling enslaved by society’s focus, he felt the need to prove that acquiring self worth didn’t require material possessions and broke free from society’s dependencies. McCandless enjoyed being self-reliant and refused to accept anyone’s help. His extreme independence and confidence made him underestimate the difficulty of survival in the wilderness.
The congregation in the movie Babette's feast can be found deny themselves many different types of earthly pleasures for the sake of devoting themselves more completely to God. This can be seen especially in the lives of the two daughters. The first daughter falls for a military man, or rather the military man falls in love for her. This relationships is impossible and they both understand this and it end quickly and a painless as possible. The reason the relationship is impossible is because the military man realized he could not devote himself to the "hard" life they live in that city, a life where they deny themselves pleasure in any form; even the food they eat was bland.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a compelling story of Chris McCandless going out into the wild to find truth in himself and all around, as he does not find peace and love in his own family. Chris had long dreamed of leaving onto a journey for himself, so he would no longer be pressured by all that had been around him for all of his childhood, “Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.”. Here Chris speaks of all to be found in the world, as when we stay and live in one place, time goes without any adventure and excitement, trapped in the society Chris wanted so much to be out of. He was simply searching for what was not available in society.
A person like Chris McCandless who has everything in the world is still unsatisfied on what is around him. He has family, money and a great education that will soon be his great future but he thinks that everything related to wealth is sinful. Chris made a journey to search for the true meaning of life and escaped it pressures. He also tried to travel by using his instincts in life by living naturally without other's aide. Whereas he helped people suffering of hunger by donating all of his college money, he forgot to help himself.
A Visionary (Chris MCcandless) Chris McCandless was an modern American romantic hero, he was not ignorant or unprepared, but he was going out into the wilderness to find the true meaning of life and to see what it was like to live out in the wild on his own. Chris was a great role model for all, because he was trying to live out his dream and do what he thought was right in the wild and would not listen to what anyone told him to do. Chris McCandless was a loving and caring person who wanted to get away from the society and live free to find the meaning of life. Chris McCandless was a person in the world who didn’t like society and wanted to get away from people to become free in the wild. When the book opens, we see Chris hitchhiking into the wilderness trying to get away from society when he gets a lift from Jim Gallien.
Candy did however have compensation for losing his arm, which he had kept saved encase he needed it. He worried about his future on the farm, so he tried to secure a sure future caring for Lenny and George when they bought their house. Steinbeck showed in the novel how the elderly were put on the scrap heap. They were seen as less important, useless and a waste of time. This affected Curley in a negative way, making him always fearful for his future.
It literally pissed off Coles because he would not go to register to vote. Once the farmer explained his service was to his family and that God wanted him alive to take care of them, Coles realized how selfish he himself was acting (Coles, 1993, p. 188). Coles was trying to help this tenant farmer come out of an oppressed society and take advantage a civil right that had been given. But by this time, that famer had too much to lose if he chose to register to vote, he was afraid for his life. Coles intention was good, but he was not going to be around after he registered the farmer.
Someone who blames everyone else for the consequences of their actions? Someone who doesn't own-up to their actions and try to make the situation better again? Cole is that 'someone'. He goes to the island mad at his parents because all the other times that he was in trouble with the law, his parents would pay the fees and get him out, however, this time, none of that happens. It was his mistake for beating up Peter anyways, yet he's mad at his parents and his lawyer because they didn't get him out.