Jan 26, 2012
McCandless & Thoreau #3
"On the face of it, bull head city doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstory, an ideologue who expressed nothing but contempt for the bourgeois trappings of mainstream America. McCandless, neverthless, took a strong liking to Bull head. Maybe it was his affinity for the lumpen, who were well represented in the community's trailer parks and campgrounds and laundromats; perhaps he simply fell in love with the stark desert landscape that encircles the town."
-Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 39
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This is another difference that McCandless has with Thoreau. Thoreau's philosophy was to get away from the society, the city, and the people as far, and as much as he can. That is why he went into the woods to live, and not have that many contacts with people out in the real world. However, McCandless was not like Thoreau. Of course, he liked to be by himself, alone, with nature. However, unlike Thoreau, McCandless tried to keep in contact with the people that he liked.As stated in this quote, he liked the bull head city, unlike how Thoreau would have hated it because it was exposed to the public.
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