I cant help to just keep think about what Supertramp would have done after Alaska while i read this book. Why didn't Krakauer ever try do establish what he would have done. i think that Alaska was the last stop for Supertramp, there was nothing left for him in the world except for angry parents a the beauty of the natural world. He chose to let this beauty take his life, which i find noble. through out the whole book it supertramp almost never mentioned what he was going to do after Alaska i tihnk deep down he knew he was going to die there.
everybody is under estimaitng how smart McCandless is remember is grades in highschol and collge and the talk about him going to harvard. if you call some who is going to harvard stupid, yeah ill rather not go there. Yes book smarts isnt the same as street smarts and they are the same as forest smarts but the can a be found a wallmart sorry bad joke. remember McCandless did research about how to live in the wild, he even worked out for it, because he knew he was going to need to be strength. so just think about it what would he would have done. COMMENT PLEASE.
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I dont think Chris planned anything after Alaska. I think his main focus was to just go to Alaska and be independent and survive. He may have just wanted to go to Alaska and live there for the rest of his life to get away from his parents and everything else. He was very smart and i believe that if he knew the outcome, he wouldve planned it differently.
I agree with Tashenae, I don't feel as though Chris would have taken another trip after Alaska. I do, however, wonder what he expected to feel when he got home. Did he think that his life would be perfect after Alaska? Would he forget his past and forgive his parents? I think he would have just returned to life before Alaska.
I can't remember if this is in the book! But in the movie, the last thing that Chris was reading (I guess) before he left was a passage by Leo Tolstoy about a simple, rich life...a wife, children, nature all around -- "what else could the soul of man require?" The video portrays McCandless laying on his back, reading that to himself, and then we see him trying to leave...but he can't. The river has swollen with the summer melt, and he can no longer cross.
I also agree that Chris didn't necessarily "plan" to do anything specific once he returned from alaska. However, i just read the part in the book where ms. fletcher quoted and right around the same part it talks about the book, Doctor Zhivago and notes found in the book made by chris said, "Happiness only real when shared." This leads me to believe that his time alone in the wild changed him, and that he was not only ready but also willing to go back to civilization and enjoy some of the happiness that companionship brings.
I think that after gis Alaskan excursion, he was planning on writing a book, like his literary idols have done. He kept a journal and pictures, which could be used to write his book, and he also was very strict about "living off the land," which could have just been for self-fufillment, but it could also be because he wanted everyone to know what he had done and he wanted to be like the men he read about in his books.
I think Chris didn't bother to think about what his life would be like after Alaska. He was so determined just about the actual trip there, and the actual experience of the nature and beauty he so looked forward to. I think maybe he felt that after Alaska, he would be ready to live a life again with his family and friends. I always feel for his Mother, Father, and his Sister especially because they were so closely bonded together throughout the life they lived together. I'm sure somewhere deep down in Chris he realized that there were people-family who were waiting for him and who wanted him so badly to just contact them. After Alaska, I feel as though he would go back to them and apologize and simply just tell them that it was something he needed to do. Because for Chris I believe it was something he really needed to do. He yearned for nature and true, pure freedom.
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