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McCandless went unprepared

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McC finds this in more than God, finds it in nature

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McC found security in the wild and on the road

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Chris ran away from home, and followed Emerson's idea of not conforming to society.

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To find himself, Chris chose to leave behind society's expectations

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did mccandless find solitude

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Chris wanted to be liberated from the restraints of society

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Chris' definition of being prepared for the wild was different than other people's who comented on his life

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The wild

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McC risks his life to find himself, and ultimately loses

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McC went into the wild to find himself

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not necessarily a negative as society thinks of it--McC saw it as a positive

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The kinds of people Chris admired and why

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Chris's need to venture into nature with barely any supplies

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Chris was completely against it and was willing to give it up completely

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McC looks for this

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Despite what people advised, following his heart and taking all the consequences from it

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Chris rejected society and its expectations of him

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If McCandless never knew about what his dad did, would anything change? "What you don't know can't hurt you"

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Even though his life ended tragically, he always lived the in his own way.

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What we consider poverty was McCandless's luxury

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McC was an example of a of a nonconformist; went against the ideals of his family and society

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McCandless has the strength to not conform to societies expectations and follow his dreams of freedom in the wild

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Was mccandless naive to go out into the wild

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McC runs away from this

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Was he freer in his old life with financial stability to pursue what he wanted or freer with nothing but the ability to explore nature? What would others have considered a better situation/ a situation with more freedom?

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McCandless thought that he had the opportunity to explore the world while his parents thought he had the opportunity to make a career for himself and be successful

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Chris searched for a certain kind of freedom--not the kind I would want or the way I would define it.

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Through letting go of society and the expectations of life

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McC looks for this

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He gave up internal suffering for physical suffering

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He explored practically the entire continent.

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McC ventures into nature to find himself
Goes beyond ordinary sensory experience

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Was mccandless wrong for going out into the wild

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McC thought he was adequately prepared but he obviously wasn't. We all have different definitions of preparedness.

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McC had to learn how to forgive his parents; parents had to learn how to forgive him

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McC struggles with this

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Chris was not following the A.D as it has traditionally been defined

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Abuse by his parents and his reason for escaping into the wild

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Ignoring the world to find himself

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McCandless saw solitude and nature as beautiful instead of human contact and touch

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His family

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Lived his life the way he wanted to.

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His parents

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McCandless did not like order
He very much wanted to do his own thing and live by his own rule.

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Was Chris Maccandless grateful and what was he grateful for?

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Chris left behind the materialistic society to pursue something for his definition of happiness