Into the Wild: Difference between revisions

* [[Character Development]]

* [[City Mouse]]

* [[Deconstruction]]: Of the Kerouac beatnik lifestyle. Chris experiences the immense freedom of living without boundaries or connections to the world but is also shown as hopelessly naive about his plan and incredibly unprepared to deal with the real consequences of his decisions. In the end, he dies because the society he so loathed was the only thing really protecting him.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Chris' father was an aerospace engineer and his family was quite wealthy. Before starting his journey, he had originally planned to go to law school with money he had saved.

* [[The Film of the Book]]

* [[Fond Memories That Could Have Been]]

* [[Green Aesop]]: Chris thinks this is the point of his journey. [[Wrong Genre Savvy|He's wrong.]]

* [[Go Out With a Smile]]

** On the other hand, he survived 2 years [[Walking the Earth]] with comparatively little problem, and was able to survive in Alaska for quite a while, only dying (if the film's depiction of events is accurate) because of making a stupid mistake and having the bad luck to not have the strength to get back to civilization before he died. Also, people familiar with the area have noted that if Chris had enough foresight to get a map of the region, he would have known there was a bridge with a few miles of his camp to cross that swollen river and thus he could have reached civilization after a bit of a hike.

* [[Walking the Earth]]

* [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]: The general opinion expressed by people the author interviews.

 

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