Chris Mccandless And Henry David Thoreau

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Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless, and Henry David Thoreau prove the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In Into the Wild by Krakauer and excerpts from Walden by Thoreau, readers see there are a lot of identical ideas between Chris and Thoreau. They both want to walk into nature and to live deliberately. There are big connections between Chris McCandless and Henry David Thoreau. Readers see the connection to Thoreau’s words when McCandless highlights the following passage by Leo Tolstoy: “I wanted excitement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love” (Krakauer 15). That shows McCandless’s reason for going to the wild. Evidence from Thoreau’s Walden that compares to McCandless’s interest in the wild occurs when Thoreau says, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (Walden). This evidence shows Thoreau also had a good reason for why he went to woods. It extremely relates to McCandless’s belief. They both pursue transcendentalism by going to the wild and finding themselves in nature. …show more content…
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