Outside Reading I: Into the Wild

I haven't read this book since the time I read it for a project during my freshman year in high school, but I remember the story line rather vividly. Into the Wild is a nonfiction story about a man named Christopher McCandless nicknamed "Alexander Supertramp" who left everything behind in search of some sort of enlightenment and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness in an attempt to find himself. I didn't really understand the book as much when I read it but now after taking this class it makes a lot more sense to me and quite a few of the concepts we have learned throughout the semester are definitely present in his story especially that of sacred place as described in Landscapes of the Sacred. I think the reason why this particular book stuck with me as well as it did was because Christopher graduated from Woodson Highschool in Fairfax which is very close to where I live. His story definitely reiterates one of the many reasons why someone chooses to embark on a journey through nature.