There are always three sides to a story, the point of view of both individuals and the actual truth. When someone only knows one part of a story, their opinion may be swayed, but when they gets to hear both sides of the story, they are able to form their own opinion. In the book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer I was able to view both sides of the story. There is the side of Chris McCandless, with the blaming and lies and the other side is his family, with concern and heartbreak. When I started to read the book Into the Wild, it seemed to me like his parents were not very worried about what he was doing with his life because he was a wonderful son and student so there was nothing for them to worry about. But I wonder if they ever saw things …show more content…
He made his parents out to be the reason why he was going out into the wild. Chris had conflict with his family and on his journey he shared his unhappiness with everyone. One of Chris’s good friends Gail Borah was left with that impression. Gail stated that “It was pretty obvious he didn’t get along with his family, but he never said much about any of them except Carine, his little sister”. He made it seem that his parents didn’t care that he was out roaming around. McCandless’s parents cared about Chris they missed him and were dying to hear anything from him after he left. Chris was completely wrong about them and instead of facing his problems he decided to run from …show more content…
He was doing what he wanted to do not what they told him to do. It looked like after his dad having a double life Chris's relationship with his parents went down the drain, he begins to see his father as a liar and no good, and it was like he doesn't want nothing to do with his parents no more. As the chapters go on it seems to me his father had taught Chris to live one way, and it turned out that his father was willing to live another way, Like in the passage called Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak he wrote in the margin "Need for Purpose." it