P1 Mrs Gharib-Thedell
English Language Arts
Friday 8/29/14
essay
Refuge, refuge is something everyone seeks they need refuge in their life just as Chris McCandless, Leroy Sutton ,Dartanyon Crockett found refuge in different types of ways. There are different type of ways people could find refuge and in different situations stuff could be handled differently. Your parents don’t understand you or you have a disability it won't stop you from doing what you want and thats finding refuge. The novel focused on Chris McCandless in the novel Into the wild by Jon Krakauer is explained of how ones life could be changed in a matter of days.On june 1990 McCandless mailed his final transcript to his parents in Washington D.C informing them about his grades and thanking them for their support …show more content…
Subsequently due to flash flood he had to abandon his car and he managed to load all his belongings into his backpack and hitchhiked around the west with little luggage and light on food he manages to make it through by meeting people as he travels from state to state. McCandless found life hard to deal with due to the fact that his parents do not understand him and how he feels towards his wants and needs to be an independent person. For example chris’s parents tried to buy him a new car and chris “Told them a million times that i had the best car in the world, a car that has spanned the continent from miami to alaska, a car that i will never trade in but yet they ignore what i say, and think I actually would accept anything from them”(21). Over time christ was tired of his parents Walt and Billie thinking that he would be given all the things he wanted but in actuality all he wanted to do was work for stuff he wanted. He found