When I finished "Into the Wild", I was kind of sad. When I read that he was finally ready to give up living in the wild, and go back home, but couldn't because of the river and then he died, I was about ready to cry. That is incredibly sad. But I am proud of him as well. Not many people can say they lived there lives how they wanted to, without anyone or thing pressuring him to change his mind. All those people who were trashing him, saying that he was stupid and that he wasn't prepared enough, I say let's see them do what he did. I am not saying that they wouldn't make it, but they have not tried it, so they have no right to bash Chris. I do agree with what some of them say though, if he would have just had a map or compass, that is the difference between life and death with Chris.
There were two things about this true story that I found incredibly weird/ironic. The first thing is that he donated his life savings to a charity to stop starvation, and yet he died of starvation. That is horrible irony. The other thing I found weird was that his mother claims she had a dream of him whispering her name incredibly close to the day he died. That is so weird.
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