Alex is the fake name that Chris McCandless gave Jim Gallien when they first met. Chris was a young teenage boy who wanted to get away from civilization. He wonder if man could survive on his own with the assistance of man made things. He decided to take a trip into the wild woods of Alaska. Chris did not have any contact with his family and no one knew that he was going on this great journey.

Well Chris went on his journey into the great forest of Alaska and 4 months after his body was

This book relates to Thoreau and his mentality on how he thinks life should be. Thoreau's thought process was similar to this boy and he would agree in what this boy is trying to do. Thoreau believed that people should escape and go into the wild. He to was the kind of person who would isolate himself from everyone else.

Chris reminds me of Thoreau because of the way he went about life. He was from a well off family and lived a pretty well of life.He also got good grades and was an outstanding athlete. Even though he had all off this, he still was not happy. He wanted something else something different. He gave all his money away in his savings account to charity and burned all the cash in his wallet. After this is he turned to nature. He thought that getting away would make him fell life for what it real is, but he wanted to do this alone. Chris and Thoreau view on how the American dream should be was not the same as how everyone else viewed it. They did not want success. They wanted independents away from everyone. They wanted to feel free. That's how this book is connected into our class studies of the American dream. Chris's and Thoreau American dream is different then everyone else's. Nobody really knows why they think this way but that's what makes this book so interesting. The audience wants to know why Chris's wants to go on this journey so bad. We want to know what his goal is and why he hates the nice life that he has now.

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Approximate Word count = 977
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)