Throughout the novel of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless leaves behind the world that he has always known in pursuit of this something larger. ... Everett Ruess, a figure that Krakauer compares to McCandless because of his similarity in journey and life story, writes letters throughout his adventures which "reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and Chris McCandless" (91), by saying: "I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. ... Chris once again shows his difference in morals when Krakauer quotes about the time of his life at home: "H...

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Reading the book "Into the Wild " by Jon Krakauer, a story about Chris Mccandless who goes off into the wild and decides to live his life according to the what the world dishes out at him comes across many tribulations that test his strengths and encouragement to continue his journey across amerce and eventually to Alaska, and then after reading this book as a class we watched the movie "Grizzly Man"" which was a story about Timothy Treadwell, a man who decides to spend his summers by going off and living in harmony with bears in Alaska to express his feelings on why bears are not our enemies...

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