Into The Wild Synthesis Essay

Prepubescent as well as adolescent years are some of the most important years when it comes to development. Your parents are arguably the most important figures in your life at that time and they play an immense role in shaping you as a person. If you grow up with a close family that creates a positive environment you will most likely grow up to function like a normal person in society and be very successful. However if you were to grow up in a house that tends to lie and you are exposed to abuse at a young age, your views on the world tend to be skewed. The second of the two extremes is represented through the character Chris McCandless from the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Chris also grew up in a seemingly positive yet
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However, this is not the way that the characters had viewed leaving their hometowns. These characters did not value material possessions, Chris shows this when his father offers him a car yet he turns it down because it is unnecessary when he already has a car that works well. Both Margo and Chris wanted to experience new things rather than buy them. They wanted to find themselves and explore new places and quite literally become a different person. So even though from the outside it looked like they were being selfish and hurting their families in pursuit of happiness, yet they were actually escaping the lies and unnecessary drama that surrounded them in their daily lives, his is also the case in the movie How I Live Now. The main character Elizabeth, or as the likes to be called Daisy, has been put on the back burner in her family due to her father's new family, and her mother passed away so she has no support system and feels extremely unimportant. Both her and Chris have felt the affects of a new family being introduced into their lives, however while Chris leaves by choice, Daily is sent away to live with her aunt and cousins by her father. She feels that she has been replaced by her father's new wife and baby. The feeling of being unvalued in your family can greatly affect how you feel about yourself as well as others as a