Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

Throughout the story, Krakauer tells the reader more and more about Chris’ relationship with his parents, if it even is one. Chris never felt quite sure to be himself around his parents, forming his every move to how they wanted him to live through standards and rules. Sporadically in the book the reader learns different parts of Chris’ life, including what his parents thought of him. Krakauer states that Walt, Chris’ father, said, “‘He didn’t think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the edge”.

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Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in the wild, and become a whole new person, or what it is like to live in the wild to find yourself? Well if you have then I recommend that you read the book titled ¨Into the wild¨ written by Jon Krakauer. In this book there is a man named Chris McCandless who left society and went into the wilderness of Alaska and cut off all contact with the outside world. He wanted to find himself, and become a better person. Some may believe that Chris went into the wild to escape a toxic relationship with his parents, but the real reason he left everything was he wanted to find himself, and he felt as if he could function without everyday things.

In society, he never felt like he belonged he would think differently than other people and act differently. For example, after his graduation, he gave away all of his savings to charity. Chris's feeling alone in society is more of the reasons that drive him to be alone in the wild. Chris would yet to realize that being in a society with people that love him is better than being isolated in the wild. Chris had been feeling alone in society, but he only experience true loneliness when he was in the wild.

However, his parents would often fight and his father was abusive and seceretive. Chris also had a love for nature, and thought that if he emersed himself in it he would find the meaning to life or discover more about himself.

Chris believed that life with everyone slaving away wasn’t a good thing. He even tried to get others to follow this way of thinking. In a letter to Ron, Chris tried convincing him to do what he did and live a full life of adventure. “The joy of life comes from our encounters and new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day having a different sun” (56). Chris believed no one should just waste their lives and should live to the fullest.

He obviously did not want to live a normal life, writing in his letter to Ron “So many people live within unhappy circumstances yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security.” Chris writes this to Ron because he wants Ron to realize that his happiness does not come from other people, but rather from the joys and new experiences that come from adventures and not knowing what is going to happen next. This shows that he does not want to live normally and how he prefers adventures than a life of

Nature and its surroundings is what catches Chris’s attention and where he is able to find himself. Living off the land and not having to rely on others or technology is his plan after he graduates school. All two years that Chris is exploring and taking in the beauty of nature and learning new experiences of how to survive, he is not in contact with his family saying they did not care about him. Billie, Chris’s mom, finally realizes why Chris did this, she states “What a pretty place…Chris must of loved it here…I can see what appealed to Chris”(Eplilogue.202). To McCandles

Home is different, in hindsight, for everyone. It can be where family is, a place, a feeling, or an accomplishment. Mental travels to the peace of home and physical journeys can be very different. In Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover, Kenna starts her story in her home. What Kenna goes through is more of an emotional journey.

At this stage, McCandless notices that Ron Franz does not want to lose him and thinks of McCandless as his source of joy. McCandless wants to help him by consistent persuasion and advises him to change his lifestyle and explore the beauty of the world God bestows. He wants Ron to understand that these adventures would assist him in moving on from his tragic past. He teaches us that people should be kind and compassionate towards others, just as McCandless helped Franz confront his fears and live life to the fullest. Unlike the rest of the people he met on his journey, Chris implies later in the same letter that he wishes to reunite with Ron.

One’s personal experience, changes their perception of home. Based on those experiences, there’s an evaluation of whether or not it’s considered home or it violated the notion of

He’d successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he’d slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz’s life as well,” every time someone tried to become close to him, he pushed him or her away. When Ronald Franz asked to adopt him, Chris told him that they would talk about it when he returns from Alaska. Chris’ problems with his father affected his ability to form new, close relationships, and ultimately sent him to his death.

Chris and his family found solace in the outdoors, and felt safer in the wilderness

Frequently, we just pass by people and look down on them since they have no home; but who is to say they don’t have a home? Home is not the house you live in or the country you belong to. It is a place that incites certain feelings and those feeling are what makes a place home. The people on the streets with no “home” may simply find that anywhere in the world is where they call home. Home has two specific set of values that make it more than just a place which are privacy, and safety.

Home is My Life Burden Home. An alternative life kept from the outside world. Behind closed doors, it can be filled with tension but others may see happiness. Life outside my home is my escape from the anxiety that’s built from within the walls of what is called my home. But now, it’s not fully a family with just me and my mother.