Ryan Lewis
Ms. Adams
English 12
10 March 2023 In What Ways is Home both a Place and a State of Mind?
Home is a judge-free, safe, and comfortable zone for you to express yourself. The physicality of it does not matter. A house is not a home, but a home is where your heart is. Home can be anywhere or with anyone who makes you check all of those boxes of comfortability. In the book, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless changes the idea of home with the story of his life journey. The story shares his transcendental take on going into the wild! To Chris, all he wanted to do was explore nature in itself. He loved his family but did not have that soul tie and connection to them and the town he grew up in the way he did with nature. Home is both a
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He seemed unhappy and unable to fit in with any particular group of people in society. With his tasteful and puzzle-like morals, he knew he was meant for more than what society sees as a normal life. “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 in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence” (Krakauer 22). He felt liberated with himself and with nature. His unencumbered feelings succumbed once he stepped into his element. Chris changed the societal idea of home when his ultimate goal was to reach the great Alaskan wilderness. Chris was a valiant, brave, and daring individual. He traveled his life-altering adventure by hitchhiking, meeting many new people, and leaving an impact everywhere he went. McCandless lived the transcendental tenet of Simplified life by the way he rejected customs and material possessions. Exploring nature was so much more than just hiking to Chris, it was life evolving. Chris McCandless,
In a card he mailed to Westerberg in October, he says of Bullhead, "It's a good place to spend the winter and I might finally settle down and abandon my tramping