Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Chris's Symbols

When looking closely at Chris McCandless' story two main symbols can be noticed. The first symbol is him burning the money. This probably indicates his desire of getting rid of his previous luxurious life and starting a new life with a new name and a new way of life. Or it might simply mean that he's gone mad like his spiritual mentor "Tolstoy"!

The other important symbol is the element of nature. It is obvious that McCandless has been affected greatly by London's Writings even though London has never been to Alaska. But unfortunately, nature has been more cruel than McCandless' fantasies!

4 comments:

  1. I agree 2 the second one that he's gone mad coz in my opinion he could've done many things with this money and the smallest thing is donating it.

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  2. good gob Read, keep a nice post up

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  3. Yeah, I agree with you and with what Ameerah said.
    Short and Great post ^_^

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