Blog Number 14

Brooke Walls
After reading “Death of an Innocent: How Christopher McCandless Lost His Way in the Wilds” and "Into the Wild", I do not believe that Christopher McCandless is foolish. I believe that he is following his dreams. He is living his life how he wants to. From these two readings, I got out that he couldn't stay in one place for very long. When he lived a "normal" live, he wasn't as happy as he was when he was in the wild, living off of anything he could find. He found pleasure in knowing that he is surving because of himself, no one is helping him survive. Now don't get me wrong, people did help him out along his adventure, but most of his survival was on his own. He enjoyed living the simple life like most people in the world like living the technology based life. I know for a fact that I would not have survived as long as he did in those situations. I would have either given up very quickly, or died very quickly.

Christopher McCandless was most definately a Transcendentalist thinker. He was incredibly intelligent, but chose to but that behind him and live the simple life. He believed in miracles, mostly because of all the miracles that occured to him during his adventures. His simple life, way of thinking, and overall adventures make him a Transcendentalist.