There are times when life’s situations make us do drastic choices, to help us escape, find ourselves or even to heal the soul within. In the novels “Into the Wild,” and “Wild” both of the characters take an unimaginable trip out into the wilderness to escape everyone and everything that at one point in their life’s was important to them. Both “Into the Wild” and “Wild” are distinctly different from each other, despite wilderness being both of the stories it’s symbol. The distinctions between Chris and Cheryl journeys were their motives, geographic locations, the use of money and food, and being alive at the end of their journey. The death of Cheryl’s Mom was what completely changed her life. Her Mom was the only person she felt protected
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She never starved during her hike and she did, once, run out of water, lucky for her she found a small pond. Cheryl also along the way would eat out at restaurants, taking showers, washing her hiking outfit, and sleeping on a bed. Chris on the other hand sometimes was starving since he did not have food supply like Cheryl did. He carried a small pack which only included a ten pound bag of rice. Gallien recalls while giving Chris a ride up to the edge of Denali, “Alex admitted that the only food in his pack was a ten-pound bag of rice; Alex’s cheap leather hiking boots were neither waterproof nor well insulated” (Krakauer pg. 5). While living his Alaskan odyssey he learned to find edible berries, hunt for porcupine, squirrels, grey bird and, “he bragged the biggest prize of all: “MOOSE!” (Krakauer pg. 166) Due to the cold weather and the inexperience he had on how to maintain meat from rotting his meat went …show more content…
Either she would convince herself or the people she meet on the hike gave her positive thoughts. She would continue until she finally finished and accomplished her goal. Before she reached her goal she finally was able to heal herself within her broken heart of her mother’s departure. “On the other side of the river, I let myself think; And inside of me released.” (Strayed pg. 306) On the other hand Chris had a fatal ending to his Alaskan odyssey. If he would have studied the area more or had a guide book like Cheryl had her, The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume I, which included CA, and Oregon, Chris would have known there were cottages nearby that he could have gotten to and could have survived. Chris was chasing something different than Cheryl he needed to break from riches, the lies, and wanted to live life to the fullest, living every second of it even though it was the toughest thing to do and dying with no one around, like he felt when he was in his teens. He writes in he’s journal, “But in the weakest condition of life, death looms as serious threat; Too weak to walk out, have literally become trapped in the wild-no game” (Krakauer pg.195). At the end Cheryl heals her herself after losing her family and Chris finally was free form the sorrow he carried of the disappointment of his father’s
She never starved during her hike and she did, once, run out of water, lucky for her she found a small pond. Cheryl also along the way would eat out at restaurants, taking showers, washing her hiking outfit, and sleeping on a bed. Chris on the other hand sometimes was starving since he did not have food supply like Cheryl did. He carried a small pack which only included a ten pound bag of rice. Gallien recalls while giving Chris a ride up to the edge of Denali, “Alex admitted that the only food in his pack was a ten-pound bag of rice; Alex’s cheap leather hiking boots were neither waterproof nor well insulated” (Krakauer pg. 5). While living his Alaskan odyssey he learned to find edible berries, hunt for porcupine, squirrels, grey bird and, “he bragged the biggest prize of all: “MOOSE!” (Krakauer pg. 166) Due to the cold weather and the inexperience he had on how to maintain meat from rotting his meat went …show more content…
Either she would convince herself or the people she meet on the hike gave her positive thoughts. She would continue until she finally finished and accomplished her goal. Before she reached her goal she finally was able to heal herself within her broken heart of her mother’s departure. “On the other side of the river, I let myself think; And inside of me released.” (Strayed pg. 306) On the other hand Chris had a fatal ending to his Alaskan odyssey. If he would have studied the area more or had a guide book like Cheryl had her, The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume I, which included CA, and Oregon, Chris would have known there were cottages nearby that he could have gotten to and could have survived. Chris was chasing something different than Cheryl he needed to break from riches, the lies, and wanted to live life to the fullest, living every second of it even though it was the toughest thing to do and dying with no one around, like he felt when he was in his teens. He writes in he’s journal, “But in the weakest condition of life, death looms as serious threat; Too weak to walk out, have literally become trapped in the wild-no game” (Krakauer pg.195). At the end Cheryl heals her herself after losing her family and Chris finally was free form the sorrow he carried of the disappointment of his father’s