Comparison Of Mccandless And Henry David Thoreau

Over the past few years, one is skeptical of what drives puerile, intrepid men to jeopardize their precious lives in the mist of nature itself. Some believe there are a multitude of reasons regarding their inability to deal with civilization. No matter the cause, Christopher Johnson McCandless and the Henry David Thoreau’s credences are quite homogeneous as to why a person would turn their back on the conventional life. Their desires were pellucid in which they decided to both lead a simple life in the country due to their detestation towards the upper-class, love for nature, and their inability to remain proximate to society for long periods of time. Albeit, this does not entirely explicate their aching desire to live in the country, it does …show more content…
Christopher McCandless expressed these views throughout the book exhibiting his detestation towards the upper and middle class. For example, shortly afore leaving to go on a solo road trip he repined to Carine about his parents buying him a car and verbalized “I’m going to have to be authentic conscientious not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will cerebrate they have bought my respect”. This withal explicates why he gave the rest of his college mazuma to OXFAM America because he wanted to prove that riches are dispensable. Homogeneous to Chris McCandless noetic conceptions of the riches of life, Henry David Thoreau once verbalized that, “The nation itself, with all its soi-disant internal ameliorations, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land”. Consequently, exhibiting that Henry does in fact cerebrate that simplicity is more consequential than the riches of life. Both Chris McCandless and Henry David Thoreau believe that life in itself is more consequential than anything else. Unlike many others, both of these men thought nothing of indulging in the fruits of their labor. To them, having mazuma is not …show more content…
Supplementally, this supplementally explicates why both Christopher McCandless and Henry David Thoreau had maintained a certain itch to remain in the country and to be gregarious every so often. For example, in Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, in a card he mailed to Westerberg, he verbalized, “I’ll visually perceive what transpires when spring comes around, because that’s when I incline to get genuinely itchy feet.” During his two year visit of Bullhead City, he could not bear to stay in a city full of life with civilization. After leaving a McDonald’s job with poor temperament, he decided to stay in the Charlie’s camping trailer for only a little while afore he received “itchy feet”. Adscititiously, Henry David Thoreau similarly relished being just far enough from society that he wouldn’t be bothered by anyone. This is shown when he verbally expresses, “The authentic magnetizations of the Hollowell farm, to me, were: its consummate retirement, being, about two miles from the village, half a mile from the most proximate neighbor, and disunited from the highway by a broad field.” Consequently, his views toward turning his back on a civilized life and relishing a simple life in the country were pellucid. Both views are homogeneous in the way that they both desire peregrinating by themselves in the