Christopher Johnson McCandless was living in a completely different reality than the one he had previously suffered in. Alexander Supertramp was what he called himself now and thus began his venture out into the world with nothing holding him back, not money, valuables, family, friends nothing was going to keep him from discovering his place in this world. He had a sort of resentful feeling towards his parents which was undeniably expressed within a letter that he wrote to his beloved sister Carine, "I can't believe they'd try and buy me a car (...) a car that has in all those thousands of miles not given me a single problem, a car that i will never trade in, (...) I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect" (Krakauer, 21) this resentfulness might have pushed him further away from home. Home wasn't the only thing he was running from though he was constantly meeting people and creating relationships and then he would move again. When things got to close he would leave, probably to prove to himself that he didn't need human relationships to make a life for himself, "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well-relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it" (Krakauer, 55). Chris was incredibly high spirited and from the beginning all he could talk about was Alaska, though some of his new friends were skeptical at first, like his friend Jan Burres, they realized that he could handle it, "He was smart. He'd figured out how to paddle a canoe down to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of that out on his own, and I felt sure he'd figure out Alaska, too" (Krakauer, 46). Before he endeavored to Alaska he sent cards to all his friends that he met along the way, cards that indicated that he knew there was a great chance that he might not make it out with his life intact, so he sent these out like he was parting with his life in case he did indeed perish. Maybe he didn't want to die and maybe he did in fact love the relationships he had in his life but we do know that he did this for some irrevocably important reason we just wish we knew what it was.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
The adventures of a stubborn, idealistic young man
Christopher Johnson McCandless was living in a completely different reality than the one he had previously suffered in. Alexander Supertramp was what he called himself now and thus began his venture out into the world with nothing holding him back, not money, valuables, family, friends nothing was going to keep him from discovering his place in this world. He had a sort of resentful feeling towards his parents which was undeniably expressed within a letter that he wrote to his beloved sister Carine, "I can't believe they'd try and buy me a car (...) a car that has in all those thousands of miles not given me a single problem, a car that i will never trade in, (...) I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect" (Krakauer, 21) this resentfulness might have pushed him further away from home. Home wasn't the only thing he was running from though he was constantly meeting people and creating relationships and then he would move again. When things got to close he would leave, probably to prove to himself that he didn't need human relationships to make a life for himself, "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well-relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it" (Krakauer, 55). Chris was incredibly high spirited and from the beginning all he could talk about was Alaska, though some of his new friends were skeptical at first, like his friend Jan Burres, they realized that he could handle it, "He was smart. He'd figured out how to paddle a canoe down to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of that out on his own, and I felt sure he'd figure out Alaska, too" (Krakauer, 46). Before he endeavored to Alaska he sent cards to all his friends that he met along the way, cards that indicated that he knew there was a great chance that he might not make it out with his life intact, so he sent these out like he was parting with his life in case he did indeed perish. Maybe he didn't want to die and maybe he did in fact love the relationships he had in his life but we do know that he did this for some irrevocably important reason we just wish we knew what it was.
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Just got done watching the movie, which was a very moving film to watch if one was ever homeless, and while watching the movie, I thought to myself, why didn't he realize that " God ", was just a useful tool for the empire/leaders to control us, we live in a SECULAR NATION, that has been overtaken by these religious people that elected tRump as our president, my Liver Transplant Doctor is an ATHEIST, and he's a very nice person, anyway Peace, Love, and Happiness, yeah HAPPINESS !
ReplyDeleteYou are wrong in every way possible buddy
DeleteWhats wrong with him doing what he believes in?
ReplyDeletegreat movie it was (into the wild) just done watching it.
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