When he writes to a friend, contrasting the deep peace of the wild with the discontent bred by cities, he claims that "It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty." On a piece of plywood inside the abandoned bus in which he died he identifies himself as "an extremist, an aesthetic voyager." It is an identification that goes with his passion for aloneness and his avoidance of enduring human commitments, whether to family or to the friends who help him get to Alaska. His proper affiliate is an avant-garde artist like the impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, for whom Tahiti was a necessary escape from his family and the contaminating commitments of bourgeois Europe. Alaska was Chris' Tahiti as Walden was Thoreau's.
He spent his summer at Worthington, Minnesota to working in specialize in pork products. His job was clean the blood with a water gun. He was think about moving to Canada, He just want to take off and run like crazy and never stop. But he also feared exile. He fear of losing respect to his parents, his friend and his family.
Christopher Johnson McCandless After his body’s discovery in the Alaskan wilderness, Jon Krakauer wrote a short article for Outsider magazine about Chris McCandless and how he ended up in Alaska. The story remained with him though and he eventually revisited the story, eager to defend Chris from those that sought to speak negatively of him. A great deal of people have spoken out angrily against Chris and his foolish youth who threw away his advantages in life and died in the wild. Krakauer tries to draw out the similarities between the brash youth of most people and McCandless’s odd decisions. McCandless himself is a young and successful college graduate with a good job and money in the bank who one day decides to up and disappear in response
Similarly to Jan Burres thoughts on McCandless expedition, Westerberg did not agree with most of McCandless’ ideas, such as traveling to Alaska and leaving his parents, but he admired McCandless passion toward reaching his goal. Westerberg said to Chris during the conversation, “You're a young guy! You can't be juggling blood and fire all the
Business 561-Legal Issues in Business Property Barney decided to retire from his job as a deputy sheriff. Barney saved and invested his money wisely over the years so that he would have a comfortable retirement. Barney’s retirement did not turn out to be as comfortable as he thought it would because of the complicated problems that arose with his properties. Barney was already dealing with a property issue with Andy’s son, Opie. Barney decided to do some fishing on his property located in the mountains.
We have been on a raid into Ms. but I have not time to give you the particulars of our trip. I will write in a few days if I can get a chance to send it and write you a long one. I just came off of picket and found the boys all writing to send by a man that has been discharged who is going to start home this morning. I was quite sick three or four days while in Mo. but have entirely recovered.
As time goes on he reminisces of the time he left his father in the snow. As he sat there awaiting his fate, he is surround by a pack of wolves. At first he fights them off, then he just gives up. “All men must die… It was the way of life” (12), so he just sits there and accepts his fate. London uses the plot of the story, the character, and the setting as a great example of the naturalism worldview James Sire talks about in his book, The Universe Next Door.
Although some trading post and white settlers have arrived in this area, the law of the land was made by the Indians. He struggles during his first winter with an inadequate rifle and no knowledge of how to comfortably survive. An example, is when the chief of the Crow tribe, “Paints-His-Shirt-Red,” observes a starving Jeremiah chasing trout in a frigid river while he [the chief] has a stringer full on his horse. His luck turns when he has an unexpected encounter with “Bear Claw,” Chris Lapp, who mentors him on the ways of the land. Lapp takes him in and shows him the way of the land, and after gaining the skills required to survive in the mountains, he sets off on his own
Transcendentalism was an American literary and philosophical movement that broke the rules of society. It believed in simplicity and self-reliance and viewed nature as a source of inspiration and learning. Chris McCandless’ life, viewed in the movie Into the Wild, shows an attempt to fulfill the transcendentalist beliefs and ideas. After graduating, inspired by transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson, McCandless decides that he cannot live in the city with the pressure of society and even his family, so he goes away. He gets rid of his credit cards, money and car and starts backpacking throughout the United States, letting life take him wherever it wants while learning and experiencing new things.
He then became completely and utterly unhappy. He was satisfied living in Alaska until he discovered that he was no longer living there by choice. His relationship with the wilderness then began deteriorating with his options. Throughout his life, Chris dreamed of being one with the wild. When he finally arrived to where he deemed to be “wilderness” he described himself as “lost in the wild,” “living amongst the wild” and “walking into the wild,” signifying that he was glad to be there.