After completing “Into The Wild” I can honestly admit that my initial perceptions of Chris have stayed the consistent throughout the novel. When I first began the story of Alexander Supertramp, I saw him as a young, idealistic, romantic, transcendentalist adventurer who’s only desire to seek the pure truth out of life. Even after seeing Chris through his worst, I still admire him. There are certain characteristics of Chris’s which are not very appealing or respectable. The way he treated his loved ones was not something which I commend Chris for. Despite the way he felt about his parents, he should not have neglected them and shunned them from his life. Even those who he met on the road, such as Ron, he kept loosely in contact with but once he felt them getting too close, he would pull away. At the end of the novel, although I admire Chris, I pity him in many other ways. It is sad to think that after all the people he has pushed away in his life; he finally came to the realization that “Happiness only real when shared.”
Chris’s story is a blissful tragedy. It is sad to think that he lost his life in his search for life itself, but he died doing what he loved and he found the clarity he was originally searching for in the end. I still think highly of Chris and believe there are multiple lessons to be learned from his journey. Life is short and fragile. You should not merely accept the reality society presents you with, question it and find the truth in it as you deem it fitting.
Happy Trails.
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