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 and how the bears need our protection in order to keep them safe from poachers and other human activity. After watching and reading up on both of these two stories and men, I was able to draw a connection between the both of them not only through how they go off into the wild but through their passion for what they do. Both men separate themselves from society in a sense because they feel that they are different and don't necessarily belong to the society in a whole. Tim and Chris both carry out their lives according to what they love and in one case Chris doesn't prepare himself well, and on the other side Tim puts himself directly in the face of danger.
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After reading "Into the Wild"" I felt as though the story reflected very much on a boy who was very selfish and only cared about himself and did what made him happy without thinking about how his decisions affected others. Chris felt as though that he had to say '---- society and everything it has to offer, I'm going to live my life how I want and anyone who holds me back in what I want to do can be cut from my life like cutting a piece of string'. Chris didn't even like being involved in what regular society people like, "McCandless went to Los Angeles to get a ID and a job but feels extremely uncomfortable in society now and must return to road immediately.