“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the change to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt myself a superabundance of energy which not outlet in our quite life.” Self–Sufficiency from a man who left everything to find the superabundance that nature give him is one of the concepts express by Krakauer in his book “Into the Wild.” For instance, Krakauer’s purpose in describing Christopher McCandless is to show how McCandless disconnection with modern society, trying to find purity of nature in order to fulfill his life.
Krakauer description of McCandless as anti-social person reveal McCandless disconnection with modern society. For example, Krakauer writes “It was the first present she had received from her son in more than two years, since he had announced to his parents that, on principle, he would no longer give or accept gifts. (Chapter 3, page 20)” This illustrates that McCandless rigid idiosyncrasies estranged him from his mother and family physical affections. Moreover, McCandless denial of receiving any type of gift from his parents, also demonstrate McCandless separation from his maternal and paternal attachments and …show more content…
An illustration of this is when Emerson writes “In the wilderness, I found something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. (Emerson 36)” In comparison, Krakauer writes “when the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertain no illusion that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking (author’s note)” This emphasize that McCandless in comparison with Emerson was trying to encounter on nature only what would satisfy his life and that is not found in the city life as is in nature. This represent McCandless attempt to find content in
Krakauer description of McCandless as anti-social person reveal McCandless disconnection with modern society. For example, Krakauer writes “It was the first present she had received from her son in more than two years, since he had announced to his parents that, on principle, he would no longer give or accept gifts. (Chapter 3, page 20)” This illustrates that McCandless rigid idiosyncrasies estranged him from his mother and family physical affections. Moreover, McCandless denial of receiving any type of gift from his parents, also demonstrate McCandless separation from his maternal and paternal attachments and …show more content…
An illustration of this is when Emerson writes “In the wilderness, I found something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. (Emerson 36)” In comparison, Krakauer writes “when the boy headed off into the Alaska bush, he entertain no illusion that he was trekking into a land of milk and honey; peril, adversity, and Tolstoyan renunciation were precisely what he was seeking (author’s note)” This emphasize that McCandless in comparison with Emerson was trying to encounter on nature only what would satisfy his life and that is not found in the city life as is in nature. This represent McCandless attempt to find content in