Wilderness; To McCandless and many other people, it has a very special and specific allure. While to most it is a lawless and dangerous place, McCandless sees the wilderness as a pure state where the evils of modern society don’t exist. This is a place where someone like him can live by his own rules and only be dependent on himself. And for McCandles this was what compelled him to live in and of the wilderness. Although McCandless journal entries depict that he does receive some answers for his questions, his reality of day-to-day life in the wilderness is not as romantic as he thought or imagined it to be. Most of McCandless time is spent trying to find food that will keep him alive which is evidenced by almost all of his journal entries
