Despite both of them being outcasts, their reason for being outcasts were somewhat different because of their circumstances. According to Holden’s circumstance, he wanted to be in the same period of life despite slowly growing up, thus giving others a sense of discomfort to others …show more content…
Chris, possessing a wild temperament, gradually came back into societal structure, after his adventures from the wild. Furthermore, having been a great athlete and student, especially excelling in the art of history, Chris chose to essentially waste away his talents in these fields and go a completely different route, and in his own words from the film Into the Wild, “You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”. Diverging from the path of someone that could’ve done something important with his life to becoming an outsider that travels with close to nothing. On the other hand, Holden gives an entirely different point of view, almost diametrically opposite of Chris’s but having the same destination at the