Into The Wild

First I'll start with how this book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a young boy who came from a high class family who only wanted the best for him, made sure he had everything he needed and wanted, he did have to ask for much, cause his parents were willing and ready to give him all he wanted. His parents had money and both wanted the best for Chris, their son who wants more to life than the material things, he wants to go deeper with his thoughts and feelings about who he truly is and what his passion is. there was one big turn that I believe is the reason for Chris just disappearing like he did, and it's cause he felt alone, isolated from who is really way and where he came from. After finding out his own father was living a lie, he already had a family elsewhere and yet he with Chris's mom and now that Chris knows this he totally reacts accordingly to his deep thoughts and feelings about it all and sets off to this world of being alone and fighting to stay alive with little food and survival things, he loose hope and eventually dies, fighting for so long this is where Chris wanted to be, sad yet true. One way that passion intersected with the book Into the Wild was with self- determination. Right after his college graduation he set off for a long adventurous journey into the wild. He came across many different people and always made the best out of each encounter. Christopher had this desire, this passion to be away from society, he wanted to just get away from it all. he told his parents, "I think I'm going to disappear for a while" (pg 21 Krakauer) Shortly after that, he did just that and disappeared for a long time. Soon after he burned his id and cut all his credit cards and make sure he became anonymous. He definitely accomplished that goal, pretty gutsy move but that's something that he wanted, he hoped for, his passion so he did what he had to do to make sure he was happy no matter what. He felt that by making this move he might figure out what his passion truly is or who he really is. Another way this book intersects with of idea such as equality comes from this fact that Chris wanted to feel some type of importance in life sense he wasn't getting it from his own family. We ask ourselves, do we think that if we make a decision right now, this moment could or will it jeopardizes us in any way possible? Did Christopher think about that when he was hurting his family, not one bit. Does that make it right that he just left without saying anything, yes maybe. His parents were in fact worried about him and didn't know what to do or what had happened. His own father mentions, "That really scares us, say's Walt, "By that point we had absolutely no idea what Chris could be up to" (pg 31 Krakauer). He felt it was all a lie especially after he went to L.A and met some family friends and they told him how his father was already married and had a family so Chris wasn't his first and his father used to hit their mother and argued all the time, even in front of Chris and his sister. So Chris left to find some equality with in himself sense he couldn't get any from neither on of his own parents. He set off on a journey anonymously and continued his passion to find equality and freedom from all society and all of its rules and regulations about life, he just wanted to be free from it all, no worries whatsoever. A third way that this book Into the Wild intersects with this concept of class is based on how wealthy his family was so he came up with very good standings, went to a good school, had a car, lived in a big home, his parents both worked, he dad worked for NASA. So we get the picture, and right after his graduation Chris meets with his parents and they tell him they want to buy him a new car in case his old one breaks down or falls apart. he mentions how he doesn't want the materials things in life, he wants whats deeper, like love and honestly and loyalty. He doesn't get that from them, so he feels like he doesn't owe them anything. Chris tells us this in one of his journals, "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 " (pg 21 Krakauer). He gets a bit angry and questions them back and tells them how he is not interested in the fancy cars and material things, he doesn't want anything, those things aren't what's important to him. Chris wants more than these materialistic things, he wants to feel like he is loved and whats to feel like he is special and came become a real man like his own father, but actually its the opposite. his own father betrayed him and his mother and sister, so why would anyone want to become like this man, father figure at that. This shows how you can have everything and still felt like it's never enough, all Chris wanted was to feel equal to his own family as well as his own father, but he felt as if he did't have anyone, but himself which is why we left into the wild anonymously.