“Seven weeks after the body of his son turned up in Alaska wrapped in a blue sleeping bag that Billie had sewn for Chris from a kit, Walt studies a sailboat scudding beneath the window of his waterfront townhouse. ‘How is it,’ he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, ‘that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain” (Krakauer 103-104)
Family Dynamics
This shows the problem of McCandless faces through the story thus far. I mean he seems to be a deeply compassionate person, and one of the biggest part of his two-year adventure was because his sense of selfishness. His risky actions over this time is deeply selfish, which causes pain to all those who love him, and especially his family, who for two years didn't even know if he is alive. He almost seems to be trying to escape from the responsibilities of human relationships and his family dynamics; by going into the wild, alone, with no contact to the outside world. He obviously doesn't care about the feelings of the ones who love him the most, this family. This just goes back to my original statement that Chris McCandless is a fool.
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