I picked the title of this blog as one of my favorite songs by Angels & Airwaves. Also, Chris went on an adventure into the wild. Here's the prompt:
"Describe the kind of things you think Chris would do if he did make it out of the wild alive? Would he contact his parents? What would he say to them? Would he get a job, go back to school?
Back up your answers with examples from the text that make you feel this way. "
If Chris did happen to make it out of the wild alive, I don't believe he would have contacted any of his family. As it says in the very first epigraph of Into the Wild, Chris writes to Wayne saying, "Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South." By this, Chris was not planning on going back where his family lived. I believe he would get a job, due to all of the previous jobs he had taken along his journey. Chris would have worked for the sake of working, and having something to do. Eventually, just as he had, he would grow tired of working and just go about with no money. Potentially he could go on other venture out into the wilderness, or immigrate to another country. He would not have returned to school, as he did not like some of the rules and regulations that students had to abide by. No one knows the exact answers to what Chris would have done if he survived Alaska, and all we can do is guess.
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I chose differently when you said he wouldn't contact his family. I thought he would definitely contact his sister and possibly his mother, not his father though. Although, you did bring in a good point from the text that I never actually looked at or thought about, interesting. We agreed that he would get a job, and I really liked how you said he would work simply for the sake of working. THis makes a ton of sense, Chris had never been about working for money or saving his money in the first place. He showed this when he donated all of his money to Oxfam. I definitely agree with you that he wouild have went about traveling again, but first I thought he would have went back and maybe got even more education. Now that I think about it, I almost disagree with myself because who knows how he would have funded his education. We agree on a lot of the stuff, and guessing(like you said) is all we can count on from Chris's unpredictable and unknown future.
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