My remarks:
The passage below is a true story of Christopher Johnson McCandless who hitchhiked his way to the Alaskan wilderness where he died of starvation in 1992. Chris McCandless was the subject of the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer (1996) and of the movie, Into the Wild, directed by Sean Penn (2007.) Before he made his famous Alaskan Odyssey, later turned out to be an epic to many, he wandered under the name ‘Alexander Supertramp’ through Arizona, California and North Dakota, in the United States, alternating between holding down jobs and living entirely on his own without human contact. He took great pride in his ability to travel with very limited money, equipment, and food.
I took some parts from several references in composing this article and recomposed them into an entirely different passage (at least from the point of view I serve it.) Unlike the book and the movie versions, that tend to romanticize the story, I prefer to serve the story as it was. In serving it, I have tried to be unbiased and attempted to guide you to draw your own perceptions.
Please note that this is not a movie review. This only is another perspective of Chris McCandless's story according to my point of view.
At last, I hope the story will give us some insights into life contemplation.
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ALEXANDER SUPERTRAMP: A POSTMODERN HERO?
“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”
Alexander Supertramp
May 1992
September 1992, deep in the bush of the Alaskan interior northeast of Mount McKinley, in an abandoned bus on a disused mining trail, a decomposed body of a man was found by a moose hunter. The remains weighed only 30 kilograms, and he had apparently died of starvation. A piece of wood was found nearby with a short message carved into it. It read "Jack London is King." He carried no identification, but a few rolls of undeveloped film and a cryptic journal chronicled a horrifying descent into sickness and slow death after 112 days alone in the wilderness. When the man's identity was established, the puzzle only deepened. His name was Chris McCandless.
Part 1: Who was Alex Supertramp?
