Amari I agree with you he was a smart guy. I don't doubt it! My dad (who read the book) and I were having a discussion about the book late Thursday night. We got into how he was smart, but kind of dumb in some cases. As we all know he died from starvation. What some of you might still not know is that they think that he ate a root that was bad for him in the sense that after he ate that nothing else that came in after could not be kept in the stomach. Well we were talking about the incident of him confusing roots or not seeing mold on the root, which end up aiding in the killing of McCandless. Something like that shouldn't have happened to a guy that had been used to living like this for two years now. Or his intelligence shouldn't have let him make this grave mistake.
In chapter 7 Wayne talks about Chris' thinking "gap". He says "there was gaps in [his] thinking." And he goes on to give examples that show that his commen sense wasn't to strong. Maybe that's what got in the way of him distinguishing between an edible root and one that is not. So maybe this kid was book smart, but not completely street smart. Would any of you agree? What do you guys think?
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I do believe that he was book smart and not street smart. I mean he was not born in the wild so these types of things he had to learn. You can study something until you know the book cover to cover but when it comes to dealing this the situation in real life, you can easily make a mistake because it is not in your nature. We can all agree that it is difficult for someone to learn a new way of life after their twenties. I can take years for someone to completely emerge into the new way of life. Sure, Alexander Supertramp spent 2 years in the wild, but I don't think that was enough to make him street smart.
He knows the books, but not the streets.
on regurads of your comment to my ssr book... yea trust me im not a reader neither, but you know when someone recommends a great book to you and you read it and fall in love with, you start to broaden your interpretations of things. now im notsaying im a saint and i dont pre-judge, because i have and i still do. but itys hard to get away from. i try to be aware of the things i say and do. i can get a little crazy and out of hand and some people judge me for that simple reason. but everyone has a secret. some hides it from the world because they are scared of acceptance. others are straight forward because they dont care. they are going to live their lives to the fullest and they dont care of poeples opinions. but anyways i was scared to readi it myself but once i did, and i got through the slow parts of the book i really enjoyed it. i encourage you to give it a try. you never know what ould come out of it!!! :)
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