Christopher Mccandless Into The Wild

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Home a place where it's shared with family and friends and feeling like you belong. Even if that involves traveling back to a homeland to find something that is a memory. In Into the Wild Christopher McCandless didn’t love his home and decided to go on an a great adventure. There he felt like he was home and he was happy, no expectations to be a perfect man for his family. Having a simple bus with simple items made it feel like home to him even if it was not much.
Christopher felt that he was living this lie with his family, felt as if he was an alien in his own home. Feeling that, made him looking for a place to call home and left his whole life that he had. Still while living with his family he felt alienated just as Kavita Sreedhar felt “ just as I was setting foot into the country at one of these immigration counters, I had my first taste of how alien I was to feel in my own homeland” (Sreedhar 63). It was a different place than what she remembered when she left. Christopher felt that he was living a lie because things didn’t seem as what his parents perpetrated to the world. Being not happy with what he had to be for his family made home, not home.
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He was expected to go to the best college, to have money, a good image for the benefit of his family. Kavita Sreedhar had an experience that would benefit her family and it was kind confusing to her at first. “My brother eased my conscience by zeroing in on the fact that it worked out for the benefit of our family”( Sreedhar 65). Since she was living in the United States, it made it easy for her family to benefit from her. Everything that Christopher did while he was young benefited his family and when he finally to do something for himself, it costed him his left at the end. From him he died at his home, a simple home that made him happy until the end of his

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