This is my last entry for the biography, Into the Wild. I found it was most interesting how McCandless was killed by nature. He longed so badly to be close and completely submersed in nature. In manifesting this strong desire he killed himself. Reading the epilogue I really felt sympathetic for McCandless’s family. The way they placed a first-aid kit, food, and a Bible in the bus that had been the place of expiration for their son. I cannot imagine what was going through their mind as they prepared to visit this infamous bus and to see what their son saw as he tragically starved to death. To difficult to even consider the sadness and depression parents of Christopher McCandless were undergoing and still must be feeling to this day. For part of my final entry for Into the Wild, I would also like to discuss those excerpts at the beginning of chapters. The excerpts that stuck out to me were the bits from Doctor Zhivago. Mainly because my mother enjoys reading that novel over and over again – and tries to get me hooked, but I am determined to never read it, just natural rebellion – along with watching the film based off the book, so reading excerpts from that novel really struck home. Another excerpt that really stuck out to me was from the novel entitled The Dead Father. It was really intense the feeling you get just from reading it, the hate you can sense coming off the page. The last part of the excerpt reads, “…he is insane because when he loved you, you didn’t notice.” That is a tough experience for a son to go through with a father, it scars all further relationships.
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