Into the Wild Blog #2

I feel that Chris McCandless was well aware that he didn’t have enough survival gear, but I think he was challenging himself by not being fully prepared. In my opinion I believe that he knew he wasn’t going to make it out alive of the wilderness. I mean he only had a ten-pound bag of rice, cheap hiking boots, and a 22-caliber riffle. That’s not going to last him a while, especially in Alaska. I’m still not sure why he didn’t accept the free gear he got offered by Gallien. I figured this is just another way of committing suicide without actually killing yourself. I don’t like the way Jon Krakauer started out the story by saying he died. I like stories that have suspense. It would have been better if he would have the stories and then at the end reveal that he had died. It makes me kind of not want to finish the story because the ending is ruined. When I first read the quote “S.O.S I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS, AUGUST?” I felt like he just wrote this to make it seem like he didn’t want to die. But really he was tired of the world and this was his only way of leaving the world “selfishly”.