Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

According to John Krakauer in Into the Wild, he shows how McCandless and others have a unique perception of the wilderness because they have this awareness of free belonging to the wild. Their perspective has them in a reassurance of capturing their life in the wilderness, thinking about how it will change their whole perspective from daily struggles. In agreement with Leo Tolstoy in Into the Wild, “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life” (15). When Chris was in the wild he highlighted this passage in this one book. Krakauer included this quote in the book because

The aspect of the wild for Chris was to reconnect with nature and himself as a human being. Krakauer expressed his opinion of what McCandless' view was and replied that “At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence” (22). Materialistic things and money was an aspect of Chris’s life with his parents. He escaped to the wilderness to have a sense of security and safety without many things holding him done. He needed to have a sense of what his life is away from his responsibilities, possessions. He envisioned a goal of backpacking throughout the wild to reach Alaska. He wanted to find his true happiness and beauty of discovering the undiscovered. People find this intriguing because they would ultimately have the same potential in finding who they are without others controlling them. A researcher from Canadian Geographic has studied and tested the mindfulness of his retreat into the wild admitting “My urge and opportunity, might use to reflect on their own lives and relation to nature and perhaps find there more spaciousness and meaning” (Kull). Bob Kull was able to capture a sense of the wilderness and capture moments of how he was able to envision his life in the open. McCandless showed that

Having an ability to go the seek the meaning of life in nature, Krakauker admitting that “A man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch, and map, and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the wilderness” (71). This shows how he didn’t need materialistic things, he only needed himself and nature to help him find that pursuit. While going off, Chris was called a leather tramp because he walked by foot. Written by Alexander Supertramp (alias), McCandless didn’t see the pleasure of being in the life that he had with his family. He didn’t seek anything from it which made him chase his goal of going to Alaska and finding himself while exploring the wilderness. People could see themselves as having this provoking aspect of the wilderness and how they would feel if they would drop everything and escape. Thinking about how others could find themselves feeling secure and safe outside of their regular comfort zone would feel unnatural to experience. Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law added “The cultural clashes surrounding wilderness have much to reveal about how we comprehend the world and our place in it. They reflect how we think about ourselves as distinct beings, our understanding of normative values and their origins and legitimacy, and how we