This young man is indeed our main character of the story, Chris McCandless. Chris at this time didn't present himself as Chris, he told Jim his name was Alex, and asked for a lift to the edge of Denali National Park. Chris explained that he wanted to live out in the wilderness. Jim attempted to warn McCandless about the danger of attempting what he was eyeing at, "There was just no talking the guy out of it." This was the first sign of Chris' strong ambitions.
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.
He believes society has grown custom to useless things and we don’t need. He states that although you might think you own your belongings, your belongings own you because if something were to happen to your things you would be devastated, so Tyler wants to put an end to all of that. He is trying to make everyone re envision their way of life. He wants to start anew and the only way to reach that goal was to reset everyone’s credit to zero by destroying several buildings of importance. He gained many followers by manipulation and helped them all hit rock bottom, and by doing so they are able to destroy their false self and over, because only when you have reached an all time low you will not have anywhere else to go but up, his belief was once you hit bottom that when you can truly achieve perfection.
He shows how desires ( in this case of being free from society’s grip) can lead young boys to turn on the ideals and traditions, society installs in them from a young age. Brave New World, on the other hand shows the abandonment of “art, science, and religion” for an advance order as the new order pays “a fairly high price for your (mustapha’s) happiness” (Huxley 230). By abandoning art, science, and religion, society gains amazing advancements, yet they also lose the happiness of life through expression, creativity, and faith. Huxley makes society question the cost of that
His importance has lead to him ordering his hunters to forget about the beast so that they wouldn’t have any nightmares. This is illustrated when he says ‘Jack paused cradling the conch’ This suggests that he wants to have things his own way and is mostly concerned about himself Jack is presented as a violent and impulsive character. He tries to assert power and authority over the boys with threat and violence and he is selfish, only thinking about what he wants at
Because Billy was owned by Nurse Ratched and his mother, he knew his life would be doomed. His suicide was due to the fact that he knew he had rebelled, and was free for that might. His decision to end his life let him continue to enjoy the freedom that the young man deserved. Some of the inmates were treated to
Possible it was so he could find himself. Maybe the only way he could really know who he was, was to remove him self from all that he has known and give himself to the hands of nature. Everyone is tied to nature in one way or another, however sometimes the connection is so strong that they get lost in it. For example, Chris’ leaving into the wild becomes something in nature that is exaggerated or to strong. In doing this he and the others in this world who do this hope that eventually will discover themselves.
The difference between McCandless and Supertramp are displayed through this flaw. McCandless’ alter ego believes in freedom by breaking away from his entire life, which results not only in his death, but also through hurting the people to whom he was connected. These people include his parents, his sister Carine, Franz, and all the other random relationships he formed throughout his tramping journey. The viewer travels with McCandless, quickly becoming aware of his selfishness through his actions. Selfishness is childish.
Krebs is sleeping late and hanging around all day. He is a hero to his younger sisters and to his mother. The town has not changed except that some of the girls have become women. Krebs likes to watch them, but he does not want to talk to them. He does not want to get involved in the politics or the lying involved in a courtship.
Gatsby lived the ideal American individualistic life which caused him to loose touch with his human nature. Pieper says that man’s nature is to be in harmony with oneself and the whole world. For there to be harmony between oneself and the whole world, one must see the natural connection between himself and other people, and likewise with plants and animals. Individualism made this harmony impossible, and as a result Gatsby never reached fulfillment from following his self-made