WEEK 8
Into the Wild-
Challenges of Christopher McCandless

Young McCandless leaves his early live to experience it in a totally differnt way.

Challenges at home:

His parents lived in that perfect and new society which is focused at career and money. His parents wanted him to be someone in this world outside but Chris just did not see truth or a need in it. All the sins his parents commited and the mistakes of the world were sitting on his shoulders like a bad virus and he couldn't get rid of this.
His challenge was to deal with what he saw as his burden.

Challenges in the wild:

Christopher started his trip without anything, he had barley food, inappropiate clothes and not much preparation in general. From some people he met at his journey Chris collected some useful things which helped him in every way. But once he was in the "real wild" food was scarce and he had to fight for his survival. But next to those basic needs the loneliness became a huge vice. The challenge of being alone must be one of the hardest for men. You can feel alone even if you are among people, but when you know there are not even people around it drives you crazy after a while.

hours of reading: 3
total hours: 25