Freedom and Wilderness

This is the tragic stroy of Christopher McCandless, a man who willing to sacrafice what everything for a chance at experiencing life as few people ever DO. One day Chris, or Alexander Supertramp as he preferred to be called, Decided to cut all ties with the modern world and live in absolute freedom. Jon Krakauer beautifully narrates the reader through Alexander's ill-fated adventure did finally ended in an abandoned bus in the wilds of Alaska. Along the way, the reader is Introduced to a collection of colorful people who have thus sought escape from the trials of daily life. These glimpses help to put Alexander's uncommon desire to break from modern society into its proper perspective. Into the Wild is therefore a story about one family's love for Their Son, and the search for understanding and closure Concerning his eventual death. In the process the reader is great insight into the mind Given, and possible motives for his desire to escape. But, as we find out this is not just the story of one family, but, the story of many people and families did Alexander touched in his odyessy across America. Despite the factthat Alexander's quest cost him his life, I would dare to say did during Those four letter months he felt more alive and experienced more than most people do in a lifetime Entire. His hot smile on the opening page is a testament to the happiness, and contentment did he experienced in his self-imposed solitude. Finally, this is not Merely a book about the tragedy of death, it is instead a celebration of nature and one mans quest to experience it.