Isolationism In Into The Wild

The book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer and film by Sean Penn, tells a tragic and moving story about a man, who is highly educated and ready to start the rest of his life with a fulfilling and promising career, but embarks on a journey away from the confinement and security of society by Walking Into The Wild. He is not running away from his problems ,he is merely marching the path that just so happens to be in front of him, in hope to find himself without his possessions, money, or his status of his name, tying him down to anything to be absolutely free. Some would argue the value of the idea of isolation and how being completely alone is what killed him. He puts himself in isolation, but comes across many human relationships on the way to

It is from solitude that we find the value of human relationship. "He was motivated by the idea that happiness is only real when shared, and decides to return home because he has no one to share it with in the wild" (Suhar, 2011). Zak finds that when Chris finds his demises in the Alaskan Wild he want to return home to his family when he knows he no longer can, at the very end it is taken away and he finds the meaning of relationships, which would have never been found with the help of solitude. Zak continues to say "Formerly discontent with society and its surroundings, Chris later believes that, “the joy of life is all around us, people just need to change the way they look at things.” (Suhar, 2011). He elaborates and takes the words from Chris saying that he found that happiness comes from the people we surround ourselves with and it’s all about how you look at life and not how life looks at you. It is because Chris chose to be solitary from the rest of the world he was able to have the most free mindset that he has ever had in his life and discovered many things about himself and how he looks at life in