Similarities Between When Dogs Cry And Into The Wild

Markus Zusak’s novel ‘When Dogs cry’ and Sean Penn’s film ‘Into the Wild’ explore the protagonists journey through self discovery by utilising a range of narrative and film techniques expressing key concepts, conveying the adolescent's thoughts and emotions their character development. Both texts

dysphoric perspective/ negativity/ lack of confidence and character

Mental illness has become relevant to adolescents due to the increasingly apparent pressures society can easily inflict upon children, specifically during their development. Both boys’ Cameron and Christopher suffer from some severity of mental illness as their characters’ display self destructive behaviour. Cameron’s consistent self degrasion

similarly Penn exposes Christopher’s