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Theme: Nature as a way to escape the grasps of society.

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Theme: Nature as a way to escape the grasps of society.

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“Two years he walks the earth, no phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ‘cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. – Alexander Supertramp, May 1992” (Krakauer 163).

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“A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence—the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes—all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand"  (Krakauer 143).

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"So many people live within unhappy circumstances & yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of SECURITY, CONFORMITY and CONSERVATISM, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind. But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit of a man than a secure future" (Krakauer 58).

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“It is the experiences,

the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is

found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you” (Krakauer 37).

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“McCandless explained to Burres that he’d grown tired of Bullhead, tired of punching a clock, tired of the ‘plastic people’ he worked with, and decided to get the hell out of town” (page 43).

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“As to when I visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time” (Krakauer 87).