Although Chris McCandless was unable to have the success that Dick Proenneke had he still sought the experience of living alone in the wilderness. Chris McCandless was inspried by Thoreau, the “hermit of the wilderness” (http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/thoreau/ ) to try and survive without any human contact or being in touch with the outside world. John Krakauer explains the appeal of the wilderness from his own experiences mountain climbing. “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...”(Krakauer, 143). This clarity of purpose that John Krakauer describes is one that appealed to many readers of this tale. Living so simply, while trying accomplish a task at hand is an experience that can potentially deeply influence one’s character and outlook on
Although Chris McCandless was unable to have the success that Dick Proenneke had he still sought the experience of living alone in the wilderness. Chris McCandless was inspried by Thoreau, the “hermit of the wilderness” (http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/thoreau/ ) to try and survive without any human contact or being in touch with the outside world. John Krakauer explains the appeal of the wilderness from his own experiences mountain climbing. “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...”(Krakauer, 143). This clarity of purpose that John Krakauer describes is one that appealed to many readers of this tale. Living so simply, while trying accomplish a task at hand is an experience that can potentially deeply influence one’s character and outlook on