-They both believe in the same type of ideals like :”The best type of government that governs the least.”
Chapter two: The winter was cold and deadly. He had nothing around him. It was scary and dark a cold wasteland.
- It effects the story because, it show all the lives that chris affected.
Chapter three: Travelling is a way to escape and get away from the everyday struggles of life. Thoreau and Emerson believed that travellig lets you escape from life.
- Foster says “The real reason for a guest never involves the stated reason. In fact, more often than not the quester fails at the the stated reason.” This employs that chris would fail at his “odyssey” and his quest “ he intended to invent …show more content…
“He arranged all his paper currency on a role on the sand ,and put a match to it.”
Chapter six: You would be giving up a normal steady life.you would be forced to do everything on your own.
Chapter eight: To show that Chris was not the only person like this, and other people chased their dreams lie he did.
Chapter nine: Because they forget for what they believed in and chased their dreams, and they both died doing it.
Chapter ten: PG 71-72 are extremely important for chris. Jans calls chris a “Dumbass”, Jans says his ignorance kills him, and that he is no different than the others. The new york times had neither negative nor positive things to say.
Chapter eleven: It showed Chris’s relationship with his family. He wanted to prove that he didn't need anyone.
Chapter twelve: They related because chris believed that his childhood was like a fiction. Which related to Thoreau's “ An obsequious often dance , but sincerity and truth were not.” it was fake.
Chapter thirteen: It shows how much Chris’s family cared for him when he died.
Chapter fourteen: This chapter shows the similarities between Krakauer and Chris. They both dreamed of Alaska, and they both didn't mind being