Literary Reflections...

If you could bring one character from any one book that we have read this year with you when you go to college, who would bring? Why?

Chris McCandless, My sweet, and understanding counselor. I would go to him for advice on anything. Chris, would be the best person to talk to about life, emotions, and everything in between. Being experienced in life with struggles, and triumphs. Chris would help me get though college emotionally stable. He would converse with me on a understanding, professional, yet personal level, sharing his feelings about his own situations and relating it to what I am going through. Being a lover of nature, he would teach me to become one with the world and to calm myself in any type of situation. Chris would teach me to live for myself and not under anyone else's standards. He would teach me how to live stress free, and happily.

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

Chris McCandless knew exactly how to live to please himself, and not always others, leaving his family due to their expectations of him. He became a stronger person, he decided to travel on his own Into The Wild. Throughout hos travelling he met a lot of people whose lives he had touched, and had an impact on. He was a free soul and was very inspirational.

“I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong… but to feel strong.”

Chris, one of the most inspirational characters I have truly admired. I would love to have him in my life while in college, as a friend, and a counselor.