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"Sometimes I'd wish I hadn't met you though. Tramping is too easy with all this money" (Krakauer 33).

Chris hoped to live his life without materialistic things, still he relied on others. While it may seem hypocritical, Chris had instinctively shown that behavior, due to his lack of preparedness.

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"He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father's moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love" (Krakauer 64).

Chris had displayed that he does not get along with his family, on account of the differences in their lifestyle values. Chris highly believes in his own ideals of self-growth and beauty through nature, showing how self-ruling he truly is.

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"Happiness [is] only real when shared" (Krakauer 189).

In Chris's darkest moments, he ran away, until only near the end had he found something missing. Chris's change has shown the irony and inconsistency of his views and actions, nevertheless he was happy.

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"The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun (Krakauer 57).

Chris believed that he could find true happiness in the wilderness, best lived alone. He has an abundance of courage to go on this adventure, revealing his values of independence.

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"It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild" (Krakauer 3).

While Chris may have not made it back alive, his last message is written with a sense of confidence and trust with nature. Considering he has no control over the outcome, Chris continues to walk into something dangerous feeling overconfident; foreshadowing his death.

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"It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something bad enough, it is your God-given right to have it" (Krakauer 155).

While others had described Chris as arrogant and ignorant, Krakauer shares that he views Chris as rather misunderstanding. The actions that Chris has shown throughout his journey was his misunderstanding of life because he was too 'young' to understand.

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Emily Co

Block 4

ERWC

Mr. White

21 January 2022