Freedom of Isolation: The Final Frontier Alone. The aspect of being alone can be comforting to people, that they can escape from all the drama and misery that their life has held. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the novel displays Chris McCandless’s life as a journey from his younger years to his adult years until he passes away. It is a life of wanting freedom of solitude once events awaken his perspective on life. The author, Krakauer identifies his slow but prominent sliding into solitude. Krakauer develops this theme by explaining the characteristics of Chris and the many events that lead up to his venture in the wilderness. Krakauer establishes the theme of freedom of solitude by displaying Chris’s troubles with his family, settling and resettling, and his …show more content…
Krakauer provides the letters that fuel Chris’ resistance of society and his inclination for being alone. Furthermore, “Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul...that land and all it holds” (17). Krakauer relates to Chris on a personal level, where they do these “wild” things for self-discovery, to find oneself in a world full of fake institutions and covered up lies. Yet, although finding himself was Chris’ main purpose, it was hard to be alone, or rather lonely, because Chris admits, “Happiness [is] only real when shared” (18). Throughout all the definitions of Chris’ characteristics and actions that Krakauer writes, an opposite remark is said to counter Chris’ want of solitude. Chris enjoyed his journey while being alone but only realized at the end that something could have gone different, something positive for himself with other people, with comfort, with love. Krakauer puts the puzzle pieces together to show Chris’ tragic