For example: “Whether there was anyone who would sound the alarm if he go into trouble and was overdue – Alex answered calmly that no, nobody knew of his plans…” (Krakauer 6). That compare to Thoreau’s Walden, for example: “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he was imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours”(Walden). This shows Thoreau was try to live in the wood. McCandless and Thoreau both try hard on their dream to live in