In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes too separates himself from society like McCandless. ... "I never knew despair could lie", this despair is Charlie Marie, the pain she felt from the disappearance of her first husband and two children drove her to lie about her past, assuming if she lies people would like her (Miller 436). ...

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