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Dec 11, 2018nick_canning rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Nov 17- Dec 7th 2018 Nicholas Jackson I learned and gained a new appreciation for those that live outside of the norms. Rebels who refuse to conform into what society tells them to be. I realised myself have always had a rebellious side and shared lot of Chris McCandless views. I feel that I sometimes too may have been born into the wrong century, I myself would not go to the extreme behaviour that Chris did. The sadness part for me was the fact that he was successful in his journeys he would have survived if he had a map, or if the river had not been flowing as much. Now more than ever I feel that people are consultly consuming themselves with anything people stay plugged into and want to distract themselves from ever listening to their inner child. I having lived through the extreme conditions that Chris wanted his whole life to experience the sub-artic condition still like most Alaskans have little empathy for him. He and many others were foolish I know and was told from a very young age how you needed to have respect for the land if you choice to venture into it. The arctic is a unforgiving place death is looming overhead always, it is admire that Chris lasted 112 days. And it is even harder to accept that it was moldy seed that lead to his death. And had he survived only 19 more days he could have been rescued. The journal entries show that Chris wanted to start a family and life a normal-ish life had he crossed that river or had a map. Making it more sad. I loved that Jon Krakaur gave his own experience of surviving his climb. And many other accounts of explorers that choose a life exiled from society. I feel a great amount of respect and appreciation for people like Felipe and my brother Tyler that choose a life style like Chris McCandless. The differences is purpose Tyler likes to drink and have sex and wants to Knowing that Ryan went to that Fairbanks 142 bus Most momeable moments from the book The details of Chris’s borther in law having to tell his sister of Chris’s death made me cry. Seconaly the epilogue of Chris’s parents visting the bus made me cry even more. Billie(mother) left a first kit and a bible saying “I haven’t prayed since we lost him.” Chris’s sister going to the church for hours looking for answers as her husband waitied in the car on the drive to see her parent. Leaving saying that God didn’t answer. She rembered being on the plane eating all the cheap shitty airplane not wanting to waste any because her brother straved.