McCandless looks at the example of books such as "call of the wild", "War and peace," and people such as Thoreau for the bases of his ideology that led to his abandonment. What McCandless fails to see from these examples is the fact that they, unlike him have a safety net. In the books that he looks at, the writers do not live the way that they write. They gathered information from books and

everything else go like McCandless did.

I wish that he had not done the things that he did so that he would still be alive, yet I find myself giving a lot of respect for him for doing exactly what he wanted to do. That fact that he say something that he wanted to do, and despite the difficulty, did it. I don't think that what he did was done entirely to get back at his family. Someone who wanted to prove themselves would not go to the extreme that he did. I believe that this is what he truly wanted to do and some of the idea came from his family but the other influence besides did the rest. I believe that this is where the mystery lies. He was from a place and time that gave him a well rounded education and love. But this wasn't enough for him. The mystery is why McCandless did what he did. He had no reason behind the unsatisfactory family life that many of families have. In most other cases people stay and deal with their problems. McCandless on the other hand ran away in the most dangerous of possible ways. Chris!

I feel that what McCandless did was very brave. My sister on the other hand argues with me saying that he was ver

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