1. Contrast McCandless' feelings about his family with his family's feelings about him. How does the Thoreau quote that opens the chapter match Chris' feelings about his family? Support your points with two quotes from the reading.
Chris did not like how his parents tried to buy his respect. They tried to get him a new car, which made him very unhappy. He loved the old car that he had and was very offended that his parents thought they could buy his respect. " Chris's smoldering anger, it turns out, was a fueled by a discovery he'd made two summers earlier, during his cross-country wanderings"(121). "...Walt and Billie made his 'entire life seem life a fiction'"(123). The Thoreau quote shows how Chris felt about his family because he did not like how they tried to make everything better with their money and did not tell him the truth.
2. Read the italicized passage on page 168 that McCandless wrote and the italicized passage he highlighted from Tolstoy on page 169. Based on these writings and events in this chapter, what convinced McCandless that it was time to return to civilization? What did he learn from his time "in the wild"? Support your answer with specific details.
The second passage made Chris go back because it says you can only be happy when you live for others and to love your neighbor. Chris marked this passage so it obviously moved him.
*ADDITIONAL TOPICS FOR WRITING: What did McCandless expect this "greatest adventure" to accomplish?
Chris wanted to prove that no one owned him and he could do what he wanted to. He wanted to prove that he did not need money or a car to survive. He wanted to get closer to nature and use it to survive. Chris did not want to depend on anyone to get something done. He thought that people who did not do the same thing as him were not living life to the fullest and was amazed at how content some people are with that.
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