Alex's Journey in The Wild

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When looked up in a dictionary the word humiliation means “a modest or low view of one’s importance and hubris means “excessive pride or self-confidence”. I think that the reader meant that Alex didn’t see how important he was, and was cocky going out into the wild since he set out his mind to it and told all of his friends that he meet along his journey that we WILL come back from Alaska, but he never did. I would have to agree with the reader because Alex just went into the wild without knowing any important skills such as killing animals for food, he had to learn that from someone else along the way to Alaska.

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I think that McCandless marked that passage because he was moved by it but most importantly because he understood what that quote meant. After all, he now understood what it meant to have happiness, which in his view, was living out in the country and helping out people who do good instead of helping people who are so used to having help right in front of them all of the time.

I do not think that McCandless died peacefully because he died from being poisoned by berries that he thought were edible, plus he was asking for help. In chapter 2 we know that McCandless left a note begging for help because he was “too weak”, “injured”, “ near death” and wants people to “remain to save” him (pg. as12). If someone was at peace to die then they wouldn't leave a note like McCandless did, they would just accept the fact that they would die and go through it without saying a word.

I think that Thoreau's ideas appealed to McCandless because they both didn’t want to live in a day-to-day world society/didn’t like the idea of it, and they both thought that society had a bad impact on people.

I completely agree with this because for us humans learn and grow we need to avoid unjust acts and deal with the consciences that we put upon ourselves. For example at work, even though I may have gotten an order wrong, I will own up to it and remake it for the customer to make sure that I won’t mess up again, so that way I can stop messing up on orders.

To be a good citizen to me means, that you must always do the right thing, even if it means going against the law. I think that it is the same thing as being a good person because if you are a good person then you have intentions of doing good things for other people and not just yourself.

A majority of one can create change since ONE person is on the “right” side of the issue/question counts for more than all of the people who are on the wrong side of the issue/question. For example -and I’m not saying that McCandless was in the right or wrong when he went into the wild- McCandless went into the wild because he was a “majority of one” when it came to rejecting the day-to-day society and all of their rules. His journey created a change since his journey made him famous it made people question his decision, whether it was right for him to just leave a society where he had everything he’s ever wanted for nothing but wilderness on his own.