Compare And Contrast Mccandless And Walden

Let’s say two kids are going to school. They are both riding the bus to school. One is going to school because his parents tell him that he has to, one is going because he wants to be the first person in his family to go to college and get a good job. One it listening to music on the way there, one is talking with their friends. They are both stressing out over a big test that they have that day. For anything that someone is doing in their life, there are always going to be comparisons and contrasts in those situations. Some might be better and some might be worse, but everything about any instance in the world where two people are doing the same action is going to be the same in some ways and different in others. In the books Into the Wild and Walden, two contradictions in the situations …show more content…
In the book Into the Wild, the main character Chris McCandless, as well as Thoreau in the book Walden, goes into the woods in order to escape the assumed life of a modern man and to isolate himself from others. There is a great deal of history behind this. In the book, there are several instances that suggest a subtle, or sometimes not so subtle, discourse between Chris and his family because of materialistic values. Going into the wild was something that he did in order to escape his family and his family ties for the chere fact that he was an independant person by nature. His family wanted to shower him with as many gifts as they could. They wanted to make sure that Chris was happy with his life through shoving material objects into his face because that’s what they thought he wanted. However, in the reality of the situation, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Chris didn’t want to accept these gifts because it was