Love and Forgiveness The amount of companionship and love shown to a person can leave a lasting impact in a person’s life. In the movie Into the Wild, Christopher McCandless portrays a despondent son whose parents’ detest affection. His parents has an abusive relationship with each other and they only adore him when he succeeds in school, so Chris does not witness real love and affection during his childhood. As a result, he undergoes a challenging time making bonds with others. Chris meets people who ironically relate to his own family positively, but continues to leave them and isolate himself from humanity. This lack of comradery terminates all potential companionship, therefore Chris realizes in order to love again he needs to extenuate his parents. Their inability to show love to Chris induces him to feel animosity towards relationships; however he ultimately recognizes the importance of forgiving the ones who have hurt him.…show more content… As a child, his father would abuse his mother in front of him creating a mindset for Chris to misunderstand love and affection. Chris expects his parents to love one another but instead they hate each other; therefore resulting in his lack of intimacy with others because of his parents incapability. His father’s abusive intellect administers hate and neglect into Chris’s life, because Chris admires his father. Additionally, Chris’s parents only convey interest in regards to the success of Chris’s life; thus failing to remember the importance of showing him love and affection. In the movie, his parents honor Chris when he graduates from college. His parents certainly avoid and escape exhibiting endearment toward Chris, by masking it behind their demand for him to be successful. His parents’ inadequate ability to display amore and attachment to their son leaves an inevitable mark in his
