Huck Finn Vs Into The Wild
After reading the first few chapters of Into the Wild, the first thing that came to my mind is how similar it is to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both stories depict a boy/young man adventuring through the wilderness with nothing but a few pieces of clothing and food. Both characters are trying to get away from the rules and regulations of society. What’s different about these two stories is that Huck Finn was a 14 year-old boy who faked his own death and survived the wilderness for months, and Chris McCandless died a few months after his journey began. It’s interesting to see how much a child is capable of compared to a grown adult. Apart from faking his own death and running away, Huck was also able to sneak into a random stranger’s
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There are also some stories about other men who took the same trips as Chris did, and those were interesting to read about. One of the events that was interesting to me, not only about Chris’s travels, but about the others as well, is that they didn’t prepare themselves very well for their trips either. It’s understandable that they’re trying to live in the wild and find food and shelter on their own, but if they know they’re going places that are either going to be really cold or really hot, why wouldn’t they at least bring some extra clothes and food to start with. If they have food to start and then find some more, then they’ll have extra in case they suddenly can’t find any. The same goes for clothes, if they only have the clothes they’re wearing and something happens to them, they won’t have any extras and that could affect how long they survive. In one of the stories, a man named Carl McCunn, travelled into the wilderness to live on his own and take pictures of his surroundings. A pilot dropped him off, but then he forgot to tell the pilot to pick him up at the end of August, which was his first mistake. His second mistake was remembering the wrong rescue signals for planes and other aircrafts. When a rescue plane came by the camp, McCunn thought he gave him the rescue signal, but he actually gave the “all good” signal, and so the plane
There are also some stories about other men who took the same trips as Chris did, and those were interesting to read about. One of the events that was interesting to me, not only about Chris’s travels, but about the others as well, is that they didn’t prepare themselves very well for their trips either. It’s understandable that they’re trying to live in the wild and find food and shelter on their own, but if they know they’re going places that are either going to be really cold or really hot, why wouldn’t they at least bring some extra clothes and food to start with. If they have food to start and then find some more, then they’ll have extra in case they suddenly can’t find any. The same goes for clothes, if they only have the clothes they’re wearing and something happens to them, they won’t have any extras and that could affect how long they survive. In one of the stories, a man named Carl McCunn, travelled into the wilderness to live on his own and take pictures of his surroundings. A pilot dropped him off, but then he forgot to tell the pilot to pick him up at the end of August, which was his first mistake. His second mistake was remembering the wrong rescue signals for planes and other aircrafts. When a rescue plane came by the camp, McCunn thought he gave him the rescue signal, but he actually gave the “all good” signal, and so the plane