Thursday, September 27, 2012
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.
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That is a good point, about him being stubborn. He was probably trying to prove a point or something when he headed off into the Alaska wilderness. I mean,, maybe he had a good motive, but he could have just been being stubborn for the sake of doing it.
ReplyDeleteWe are both kind of thinking on the same track from reading both of our blogs. I definitely think that he is stubborn, and that is a point I didn't put in mine and I for sure agree on.
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking the same thing Alex, sometimes I wonder while reading this book, "Did he mean to die?" Hopefully we will find out soon.
ReplyDeleteI agree I believe it was pretty redudent as well! He had nothing to survive on like you stated. I never thought about him possibly wanting to die or planning for it to turn out the way it had, you gave me a new perspective; I do have to say, however, though it was stupid he isn't a stupid person so maybe there is a bigger picture that we readers haven't seen yet.
ReplyDeleteI guess you could say he was stubborn, but i think he was trying to find who he really was.
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