Into the Wild blog 2

     After reading the first chapter of the book, I really think that McCandless actually thought he could survive out there with the little materials and items he brought. It blows my mind that he would even leave period, considering he was not prepared. Part of me feels like he didn't want to end up alive, simply because he was hardly around anyone and never really kept in touch except for a select few. The other half of me is like maybe he did just want to live off the land. It says in the book that he walked and canoed a lot of places, so it makes me second guess the whole situation. I can't quite seem to figure out why he would take so little with him, if he expected to stay alive on his journey for so long? I still can't figure out what possesed him to leave everything behind. It also really annoys me that Jon Kraucker would begin the book based on the ending of his life. I think it ruins the story, and confuses me as well. I want to know why he went out in the woods unprepared and why he didn't want anyone to know who he really was. Maybe it was written this way to save the best part for the last.
     My reaction to the S.O.S note was really confused. I wanted to know why he suddenly wanted to be rescued, but why he left to pick berries? If you were in some kind of trouble, wouldn't you stay where you were and wait for help to come? That just didn't make sense to me at all. He's a really strange person in my opinion.

Into the Wild blog 1

      In my opinion, so far in the book, I think Alex (Chris) Mccandless is a really stubborn person. I'm not sure what it is he's excatly doing out there, but he's for sure trying to prove a point to somebody, maybe even himsef. He always wants to be on his own and doesn't really keep in touch with a lot of people. It might just be that he's very independant, but I feel like there's more that hasn't been revealed yet. I'm interested to find out about what else the story holds and why excatly he felt the need to go off, into the mountains by himself without any kind of communication. It seems to me as if he wanted to die. He didn't have in any way shape or form the right kind of materials to stay alive out there. If you ask me, that's probably one of the stupidest things i've ever heard of. He should have expected the outcome of what was going to happen to him from the time he set out on his journey. Part of me also feels that he did what he did on purpose; I don't know that for sure, but something's telling me that he planned to take those few items along with him for a reason. I mean really, who in there right mind would go off on their own with no type of way to get ahold of anybody, and not have some type of game plan for themselves? That just doesn't sit right with me, but I guess i'll find out soon.