Into The Wild

'Into The Wild' intersects with education,equity,privilege,race and class. 'Into The Wild' by Jon Krakaver highlights the explarations of a young boy named Alex,who after completing his college,turns out to be hitchiker to discover and adventure new things. He was passionate to live in the natural beauty. He loved to be in jungles,mountains,hills,around sea,etc. He is too thirsty for natural places to visit and feel the beauty of nature. This passion convinced him to leave his home.He also advises the same to Franz an 80 year old man whom he met on the way during his travels.He writes a letter to Franz after he left him,that"The very basic care of man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.The joy of life comes from our encounter with new experiences"(57).He loves to be independent and self made.He couldn't bear the commanding nature of his father,and was fed up from environment of his home.He confesses his dislike towards his parents to his sister Carine whom he told that,"Their parent's behaviour was so irrational,so oppressive,so disrespectful and insulting that,finally passed by breaking paint(64).This could be one of the reason to rise of his natural beauty passion.He started to love more of wild nature's than humans.He was too passionate that once he would make his mind,he would never step back and nobody could change his mind.He wanted to do everything by his own without getting any kind of help as support from anyone.                                    

 However,Privilege too plays role in his life.He was privileged throughout his whole life.As he did live up to 5-6 months without any access to money or  financial support from family hitch hiking alone . he did get the rides and help from the local people of the areas wherever he did go due to his the privilege of his race. if he would not be white  than he might not even go that long as he would undergo stress and trauma of not getting support.  But he didn't like the privileged life style.His this attitude is admitted by Franz,80 year mom whom Alex accompanies for a while during his trip.Franz realize that Mcandless face would darken with anger and he'd fulminate about his parent's or politicians or endemic idiocy of mainstream American life(52).He was educated and lived a well settled life in his teen years,but all the luxuries he received from his privileged life meant nothing to him.In fact,he wanted to live his life by making his own efforts and by his own rules without being helped.He didn't like taking any gifts along with him when the people on the way to his journey would offer him,because he wanted to do everything by himself.He did not like accepting the gifts or anything free,as once when Wayne Westerberg offered him to pay for his ticket to Alaska he directly declined and said,"It would be cheating.It would wreak his whole trip(67).Such more his ideas and principles.He loved adventure and new experiences.He wanted to see everything that God had created.He rejoiced to live in the heart of nature,in the natural sense than with humans.He did not like human intimacy of friendship,On the contrary he loved to live by the slide of nature.

Moreover, education has no really any practical impact on his life style. Although, being a graduate from university he did not acknowledge education of any value. He did not get any positive impact from education as he did not find any use to what he had learnt in university. Education helped him in the sense that he was able to go to different places without any difficulties in reading maps and signs . but his university education failed to give a bright career to him , indeed it provoked him to go to that path as he had read a lot about the social problems in south africa etc . this all had such a negative impact on his mind that he started to isolate himself from humans. he loved his own company . he never felt loner although being alone. the human attractions could not change his mind.