Into The Wild: Importance Of Chris's Journey

Importance of Chris’s Journey The bus in “Into the Wild” is a very important symbol in the novel. The bus in “Into the Wild” is a very important symbol in this novel because it shows how nature was cruel to Chris. The bus also showed how nature is a relentless part of the world. It also shows us how we as humans can be disposable. The bus in “Into the Wild” shows how nature is cruel. For example, the author states, “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. The Anchorage couple had been too upset by the implication of the note and the overpowering odor
For example, the author states, “His journal entry for January 11, 1991, begins “A very fateful day.” After traveling some distance south, he beached the canoe on a sandbar far from shore to observe the powerful tides. An hour later violent gusts started blowing down from the desert, and the wind and tidal rips conspired to carry him out to sea. The water by this time was a chaos of whitecaps that threatened to swamp and capsize his tiny craft. The wind increased to gale force. The whitecaps grew into high, breaking waves. “In great frustration,” the journal reads, he screams and beats canoe with oar. The oar breaks. Alex has one spare oar. He calms himself. If loses second oar is dead. Finally through extreme effort and much cursing he manages to beach canoe on jetty and collapses exhausted on sand at sundown. This incident led Alexander to decide to abandon canoe and return north” (Krakauer 26). This example shows how nature is a relentless part of the world because despite what Alex did or tried to do nature kept destroying his canoe. This teaches him a lesson that everything you do in life happens for a