Thursday 9 September 2010

Into the Wild's Themes




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Sam told us about some of themes of the book 'Into The Wild'. She mentioned freedom and loneliness. I would like to add more without going deep.


I think one of the themes is the attraction of the WildernessThe wilderness has a very particular attraction to Chris and many others of his type. He saw the wilderness as a place that is free of the evils of modern society and a purer area.

McCandless spends so much time trying to find food to keep himself alive. This could be explains the reason of his death and perhaps why many of his heroes who wrote about the wilderness, for instance, Jack London who in fact never spent much time living in it.


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Also, another theme is the ambiguity of Identity. I have red that Krakauer spends about three years putting together first the article on Chris McCandless, and then this book. He talks to almost anyone who met McCandless, even fleetingly. He follows McCandless's trails, reads his journals, even reads the articles he wrote for the student paper at Emory. (GrAde Saver)

I supposed that Krakauer feels that he can understand Chris more than anyone else, because when he was in Chris age, he was like him.

Moreover, I'm not sure, but I feel that the search for the meaning of life could be themes in "Into the Wild."

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