Into the Wild

For my outside reading I am going to read Into the Wild, by Jon Kraukaer, I don't know how to spell it. Anyways, I am choosing this book because I really enjoyed the movie and I am interested to see how the author portrays a lot of the characters. I have also heard that this book has a lot more insight then the movie when he is in Alaska. I am curious to know more and am somewhat excited for it. Whenever I watch this movie with my friends, it is never quiet. Everyone seems to have their own opinion on how dumb Alexander Tramp is or what else he should have done. Honestly, I kinda enjoy the arguements as I do have my own point on a lot of things. I think a lot of people can agree that although he was trying to escape civilization his choice to go into the dangerous wilderness was a foolish and somewhat selfish move. He really didn't take into account more about his parents, his sister, his hippee friends that he met along the way, and turned down to be adopted by Ron(Hal Holmbrook). For me, the parts with Ron saying good bye to Alex were really sad because Ron had lost all of his kids and wife.