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McCandless set the right amount of goals for himself. Even if he wasn’t prepared he still did many things in his bucket list. “McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well, relieved that he had again evicted the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it.” Pg.142 McCandless wasn’t mentally crazy, but he was crazy at heart. He was bright, social, adventurous, and admiring. McCandless had the world on his shoulders he took that first step into freedom. “Intended to be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris.” Pg. 43 He wanted to reinvent himself, and his name. McCandless didn’t want his past to mistake who he really was. He alone was a smart guy, and had many goals set out for himself. He knew that he could do and be more in life. …show more content…

“He didn’t think the odds applied to him, we were always trying to pull him back from the edge.” Pg.207 he knew what he was getting into and didn’t care he just wanted to find himself and make himself known as Alex. “Chris didn’t think twice about risking his own life.” Pg. 32 McCandless was a bright young man and just wanted to accomplish his goals. He also met a lot of great people threw his journey to Alaska and they supported him. He paddle a canoe down Mexico, how to hope freight trains, scored a bed at inner city missions. He figured all that by himself so he educated himself and was

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