Into the Wild

            Into the Wild, a movie and book about a college graduate who leaves everything behind in order to show his distain of Corporate America and promote the ideology of the great writers, such as Leo Tolstoy, Jack London, H.W. Davies, and Henry David Thoreau. Chritopher McCandless, other wise known as a leather tramp- Alexander Suptertamp, goes on a journey that shows his prejudice towards those in the world who are caught up in their goals and their lives. His belief is that they do not truly see what is going on around them, and have become robots in an organized society.

          As McCandless goes through his own journey of self-fulfillment, he goes against society and categorizes all those in it. He talks to a man he met named Wayne Westerberg, he explains to Wayne his distain of the life he came from and the people he knew,  “You know, parents, hypocrites, politicians, pricks.”  Along the way, he finds “watered-down” societies in the Slab City of the Imperial Valley, Salvation Mountain, and the outskirts around the Salton City of California. McCandless never finds comfort anywhere he goes and decides that he will find the world we need in Alaska, The Last Frontier.

            McCandless’ judgments give off the feeling that we all suffer from disillusionment, are all selfish, and need to drastically change our lives or else live a life full of unhappiness and dissatisfaction. His main goal was for  society to understand that its need for judgment, control, and the whole spectrum of people being mean to each other, is not needed, that we all can escape and attain a greater joy in life if we would just be in the moment of freedom and simple beauty. Aside from his want, McCandless had put everyone that had a job, or lived in a big city into the category of society, and as seen above, he believes that those in the society are in serious need of their eyes being opened.

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