Relationships In Into The Wild, By Sean Penn

The role of relationships in Sean Penn's "Into The Wild", are found all the way throughout the movie. The 3 main characters that changed Christopher McCandless' life are Wayne, Ron and Chris's parents. These complex relationships affected his life, and changed his entire reality. Wayne was a huge factor towards Chris's confidence. He tried to help Chris in anyway he could, whether it be food, a place to stay or even money. Chris worked for him multiple times, for the first few times he worked for free. Throughout him working for Wayne, he learned about Wayne's confidence which he picked up on. This mainly came from him taking Wayne's job painting his houses. It showed Wayne that Chris is a hard worker and allowed them to become even better friends. “I’ve given jobs to lots of hitchhikers over the years. Most of them weren’t much good, didn’t really want to work. It was a different story with Alex. He was hardest worker I’ve ever seen.” Chris thinks about Wayne alot through the movie, he looked up to him. …show more content…
Ron had taking an astounding liking to Chris, he even offered to adopt him. In one scene where Ron and Chris are on the cliff, Ron talks to him about his problems with his family and how he doesnt mind calling a higher power God. “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you." What Ron meant towards Chris was that if he does chose to forgive his family, it should bring love back into thier relationship. Before hand, Chris tells him that joy of life does not only come from human relationships, its in anything we can experience. Later on when Christopher dies, Ron stops believing in God. That proves how much he cared for