In To The Wild Analysis

Response Paper to In to the Wild What Chris regarded as culture, seems to relate to the behaviors, beliefs, values and symbols of communication he was taught from his family. The movie is a story of his struggle to respond to his upbringing and define his own voice and opinions about himself and the world around him. I was considering on how the idea of having purpose in our lives is a fairly new idea in society. I am an artist myself and never considered that my life and work was without purpose. It seems that Chris is struggling with this, he is told that he needs monetary success and relationships to feel fulfilled. He disapproves of the conflicts in his home life and the pursuit of career over happiness. I think that it is more than the money, it is that it represents lose of freedom. The fact that you must be loyal to source of the financial provider, so to speak. That it always has a string attached, ready to be jerked in an unexpected direction. Hence why he rejects the ideas of the new car and law school. Chris works dilligently on …show more content…
Yet, in the end his death is ultimately determined as starvation, since he was unable to feed his physical body. The intelligent young man that he was, allowed the exterior to wither, with a mind driven by madness and hunger. I was distraught while watching, that although Chris had planned his expedition to the best of his abilities, he was lacking practical life experience to survive. He did not have all the resources and gear need to live in the wild. The fact that the stream he had crossed to enter, had become a raging river when he went to return home, to his surprise, made me feel that he had not actually truly considered ever returning back to his former life. Maybe it was the fear in that moment that foreshadowed the fact that he would not ever actually do