The four authors Emerson, Thoreau, Krakauer, and Donovan share the same themes in the book “Into the wild”.Each one of the authors have their own transcendental beliefs of Mcandless and his actions. I will be telling how they all relate with shared themes of nature, self reliance and such. Ralph Waldo Emerson one of the authors uses self reliance which is a big thing, and helps you think of things in more detail. Such as being a free thinker and to question more things also. Every author that wrote a quote in the book “Into the wild” use each other’s themes to help describe and explain mcandless and or their relationship. This is good because you get more detail about the relationships and things. Another author in the book, Henry