A similar belief between Thoreau and McCandless and Krakauer is the idea of looking at the bigger picture of life, and not living on the small, little details of it. Quotes between Into The Wild and Where I Lived And What I Lived For that show similar ideas are “If we do not get our sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season?”(Thoreau 2) and another quote from McCandless’ “I fear that you will follow this same inclination [bolting back to his house to live the same repetitive life] in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.”(Krakauer 57) Overall, Krakauer, McCandless and Thoreau share the same ideas of non-conformity, opposition of materialism and elitism, and living life in the big
A similar belief between Thoreau and McCandless and Krakauer is the idea of looking at the bigger picture of life, and not living on the small, little details of it. Quotes between Into The Wild and Where I Lived And What I Lived For that show similar ideas are “If we do not get our sleepers, and forge rails, and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season?”(Thoreau 2) and another quote from McCandless’ “I fear that you will follow this same inclination [bolting back to his house to live the same repetitive life] in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.”(Krakauer 57) Overall, Krakauer, McCandless and Thoreau share the same ideas of non-conformity, opposition of materialism and elitism, and living life in the big