Cheryl Strayed is the main character in Wild. In this book, she goes through a lot terrible things that force to change. She change, fear into brave.
In the beginning Cheryl Strayed was a nice girl because she when in college, determined to get her BA degree. However, during her senior year, she had lost her mother's in lung cancer, so she didn’t ended up getting a degree. Follow up to her mother death, she watched her family disintegration, and got divorced at the same time. Four years later, Cheryl Strayed stared to change piece by piece; first she is cheating and laying to Paul by kiss other men. At one point, she promised herself that she will stop messing around with other men, but nothing changed. Even worse than at first she had sex with three men in five days. She also takes drugs for temporary pleasure. Finally, she made the most important decision of her like is to be brave and hike the PCT alone with no backpacking experience at all. Cheryl is a brave, and strong woman. She steps into the wild to find forgiveness: “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one woman are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” So She made up her mine to be brave, and kept walking.
Also, Cheryl had changed her point of view of her mother. Before, she hated her mother because she smoked drug in front of her own kids. The worst part that she did is tells them to call her by her first name, and leaving be hide the child alone while she worked, and being cheered in an annoying point. As she hiked, she had forgiven her mother. She started to look at the good side of her mother that she had given her children everything, and had loved them more than anyone. At the end of her trial, she will never feel at the bottom again, at that place she was again.