The movies Into The Wild and Deliverance both are about a group of people or person going out into the wilderness. Deliverance is about four men who canoed a river before it was going to be drained, but also for the four of them to experience nature because most of them had not before. Throughout their journey, they were tested constantly, by the weather, the river, and even other people. Their journey also led to interesting actions made that would seem surprising. Into the wild is about a young man by the name of Chris McCandless and his journey to him the wilderness of Alaska’s Denali national forest. Chris reason for his journey is that he left his home to try to find himself in the wilderness. Very ill-prepared Chris too was mentally challenged by the wilderness; He had to battle with animals and the unpredictable …show more content…
Alaska weather. Along the way, Chris learned valuable life lessons that he, unfortunately, did not have the opportunity to live out as he died after being in there for three months. Both movies revealed the lesson that the wilderness can be a very unforgiving place. In the movie deliverance, one of the characters, Ed had a major change throughout the movie.
Ed’s decision to attempt to kill the man that potentially killed Drew showed that Ed had changed drastically throughout the course of the movie. We know that Ed is not the type of character to make a choice that in a way is unethical. Ed is more the type of person who would let Lewis make the decision and Ed would go along with that. Previously, in the movie, there was a point where Ed could have shot a deer but could not bring himself to do it. When Ed killed that man, it showed that the wilderness had changed Ed, in a way that could be a positive or negative change. Ed’s actions show that the wilderness can change people. The fact that wilderness the ability to bring something out of people is incredible. We do not know if Ed’s change was situational or a permanent change. The wilderness brought a new side of Ed, that maybe was always and he just needed a reason to bring it out, or he was fueled by the fact that Ed killed the man that killed Drew. Whatever the reason this is a great example how the wilderness has the power to change the way a person
acts. The movie Into The Wild explores the life of Chris McCandless and his journey to Denali National Forest in Alaska. He met many different types of people from across the country. Every new person Chris met he left them because he felt the best thing to do would be to go live by himself in the Alaskan wilderness. Every person Chris liked him very much and did not want him to go, but Chris had promised to everyone that would be back. While in the Denali Forest Chris had to battle the elements and nature. Chris was doing fine for a good period while in Alaska. He was able to find food; the weather was good for the most part. The longer Chris stayed, the weather started to turn bad, as it would rain much during the last month Chris. It was hard for him to find food. In a desperate attempt for food Chris, eat berries that he thought were edible. It turned out that these berries were poisonous and there was a strong possibility that Chris would die. Chris started experiencing many issues, like hallucinations, vomiting, and starvation. In his dying moments, Chris wrote in his journal “Happiness is only real when shared.” This is what nature can do. Chris went to Alaska to find himself and he did. He figured out a great lesson in life. The wilderness can change the way you think of the world. Chris did not realize that until it was too late. Chris thought that going out into the wilderness would be a good thing; even though many told him it was a mistake, he still did it anyway. Chris was ill-prepared and it makes seem like he did not want to come back, which is a shame because he had a great life ahead of him. Something inside of him decided, that he did not want to live he was meant to live. How It took Chris to the brink of death to realize happiness is only real when shared is beyond me. Chris had a great time with any person he met. Each person provided him with a different way of experiencing the world. To him that obviously was not good for him as he still thought he would be happy by himself in the wilderness. For a time it was until Chris tried to cross the river the again and he the river had expanded. The wilderness can change the way a person views the world, and this is very evident with Chris’s journey to Alaska. Both of these films deliverance and into the wild show what the wilderness can do to people. In deliverance, we saw Ed do something that we never thought he could do when he killed the man. It shows that wilderness has the ability to change the way a person behaves and how much of an impact that can give have. In Into The Wild, we saw Chris travel across the country, met new people, make short-term friendships and battle the Alaskan wilderness. Where he learned just before his death that happiness is only real when shared. Being alone for three months, made him realize that you would need other people to have real happiness. That is the opposite of Chris’s original thinking. The wilderness has the power to change a person’s views on life. One common theme that is shared between both films is that the wilderness can be an unforgiving place. Drew dies in deliverance, Lewis breaks his leg, and Bobby is raped. Chris eats poisonous berries and has a hard time finding food. These moments show that the wilderness does not care about you and that sometimes nature can overpower humankind. The river in both films proved to be a problem. In deliverance, the four men had to paddle across for three days and showed it was a challenge. In Into the Wild, the river was a roadblock for Chris to return home. The river is symbolic of nature in that sometimes no matter how hard you try nature always wins.
Many individuals decide to live their life in solitary; though, only a few choose to live in the wild. The book, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer vividly paints the adventurous trek Chris McCandless went on. From the friends he made, to the hardships he went through, McCandless is portrayed as a friendly, sociable person despite the fact that he was a vagabond. Other than McCandless, there are even more individuals that have taken the risks to live in the wilderness such as, Jon Krakauer and Everett Ruess. All three of them had both similarities and differences between their own qualities as a person and their journey.
Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.
Into the wild is a book about a young man, who leaves society to hitchhike to Alaska and live alone in the wilderness. “Christopher Johnson McCandless graduated from Emory University in May 1990 with a degree in history and anthropology”p.20. “toward the end of June, Chris mailed his parents a copy of his final grade report.”p.21. He was a well educated man. He had many opportunities in life to be successful. “It was the last anyone in chris family would ever hear from him”.p.22. By August, Chris’ parents received his grades in the mail. He asked the post office to delay them mailing his final grades to his family.
Chris McCandless was a young man who gave up his belongings to live in the wild away from society, and his journey was to find fulfillment and the meaning of life through nature. In the nonfiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer writes about the details of Chris McCandless’s journey to find and reinvent himself as he lives off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. Throughout the book, Krakauer portrays McCandless as a hero for rejecting society and falling victim to this bravery. However, Chris McCandless’s death is not an example of heroism and he did not fall victim to his courage. Instead, McCandless died as a result of ignorance and overconfidence that clouded his self-perception and ultimately led to his downfall.
In Into the Wild, the main character, Chris, embarks on a journey into the wilderness alone. He travels with minimal amounts of supplies and has no real plan for what he is doing. Like man in London’s story, Chris also received advice from wise and knowledgeable people who advised against traveling alone. They told him to be prepared not take any chances when it came to nature. However, Chris also ignored this advice and proceeded on with his wilderness journey. This produces the same result as in To Build a Fire, death. The interesting connection between these two stories is that Krakauer mentions Jack London as one of Chris’ favorite authors, giving him inspiration. Though this inspiration was most definitively negative because it caused Chris to embark on a disastrous trip into the
Thesis- In Jon Krakauer's nonfiction novel, Into the Wild, the wilderness is a natural home to seekers, a place free of the harm of a modern society, where a seeker can explore the lands and experience life by their own rules.
Living in the wilderness is difficult, but understanding the meaning of such lifestyle is even more difficult. One of the Christopher’s admirable qualities was that he was well aware of what he was doing. He knew about the difficulties and dangers that he would face into the wilderness, and was mentally prepared for that. Author Jon Krakauer says that “McCandless was green, and he overestimated his resilience, but he was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on little more than his wits and ten pounds of rice. And he was fully aware when he entered the bush that he had given himself a perilously slim margin for error. He knew precisely what was at stake” (182). McCandless was an educated youth, who loved nature and dreamed of living in the Alaskan wilderness. Although he ignored to take many necessary things with him on this
Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer tells of a young man named Chris McCandless who 1deserted his college degree and all his worldly possessions in favor of a primitive transient life in the wilderness. Krakauer first told the story of Chris in an article in Outside Magazine, but went on to write a thorough book, which encompasses his life in the hopes to explain what caused him to venture off alone into the wild. McCandless’ story soon became a national phenomenon, and had many people questioning why a “young man from a well-to-do East Coast family [would] hitchhike to Alaska” (Krakauer i). Chris comes from an affluent household and has parents that strived to create a desirable life for him and his sister. As Chris grows up, he becomes more and more disturbed by society’s ideals and the control they have on everyday life. He made a point of spiting his parents and the lifestyle they lived. This sense of unhappiness continues to build until after Chris has graduated college and decided to leave everything behind for the Alaskan wilderness. Knowing very little about how to survive in the wild, Chris ventures off on his adventure in a state of naïveté. It is obvious that he possessed monumental potential that was wasted on romanticized ideals and a lack of wisdom. Christopher McCandless is a unique and talented young man, but his selfish and ultimately complacent attitude towards life and his successes led to his demise.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is a true story of the mysterious death and journey of a talented twenty-four year old Christopher McCandless. He was raised in a wealthy family and was given plenty of life opportunities, but one day decides to turn his back on everything he had in life. After graduating Emory University in 1990, Chris decided he wanted to hitchhike across the country into the Alaskan wilderness. He gave away his bank savings to charity, abandoned his car, and burned all his cash and belongings leaving no trace of Chris . McCandless then changes his name and identity, and goes by the name of “Alex McCandless”.
The book Into The Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, tells the story of Chris McCandless a young man who abandoned his life in search of something more meaningful than a materialistic society. In 1992 Chris gave his $ 25,000 savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, and burned all of his money to chase his dream. Chris’s legacy was to live in simplicity, to find his purpose, and to chase his dreams. Chris McCandless’s decision to uproot his life and hitchhike to Alaska has encouraged other young adults to chase their dreams. Neal Karlinksy illustrates the love Chris had for nature in the passage, “He was intoxicated by the nature and the idea of a great Alasican adventure-to survive in the bush totally alone.”
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who sets out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “nave”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saint” type of person.
In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explores the human fascination with the purpose of life and nature. Krakauer documents the life and death of Chris McCandless, a young man that embarked on an Odyssey in the Alaskan wilderness. Like many people, McCandless believed that he could give his life meaning by pursuing a relationship with nature. He also believed that rejecting human relationships, abandoning his materialistic ways, and purchasing a book about wildlife would strengthen his relationship with nature. However, after spending several months enduring the extreme conditions of the Alaskan wilderness, McCandless’ beliefs begin to work against him. He then accepts that he needs humans, cannot escape materialism, and can never fully understand how nature functions. Most importantly, he realizes that human relationships are more valuable than infinite solitude. McCandless’ gradual change of heart demonstrates that exploring the wilderness is a transformative experience. Krakauer uses the life and death of Chris McCandless to convey that humans need to explore nature in order to discover the meaning of life.
Terri considers that what Ed felt for her was love. And then Terri continues with her story. He stalks Mel and Terri, at that time Mel was divorcing his ex wife and living together with Terri. It’s a really complicated situation. Ed gains knowledge of the truth and kills himself with rat poison, but it doesn’t work well at first, finally he kills himself by shooting himself in his mouth.
Chris McCandless from the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, and Cheryl Strayed from the movie, Wild both went on a journey to go into the wilderness and was isolated from society. Chris was in his early 20s hitchhiking to Alaska for around 2 years. The push that made him go to Alaska was to isolate himself from his parents because they kept giving him materialistic things and he wanted to be independent, by leaving his family. Whereas, Cheryl was 26 years old hiked from the Mojave Desert to Pacific Crest Trail for 3 months. The purpose of the hike was to redeem herself from her mistakes, to moved on with her mother’s death and her divorce.
The book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, was a very interesting story about a young man going to live out in the wild of Alaska. This young mans name is Chris McCandless also known as Alex Supertramp. He had a lot of courage to go out this trip facing the wild. He has set high hopes for how young he is. Graduating college than leaving directly after graduating and burned all of his money and left his car and most possessions behind. His bravery definitely had a big impact on the story. With his bravery, it seemed like he has done this before and has no weariness. Chris was very independent on his trip. He received little help from people. He got work a few times to buy gear for his trip to Alaska, other than that he was either hitch hiking or walking.