Letter

Brittany Bell

Ms. Irving

11th Comp/Lit

3 February 2016

Dear to whom may read this,

You might think no one cares for your well-being? You may think that your family hates you and wants you dead? But honestly that’s not true. Yes, you have watched your parents fight all the time; saying “Look what your mom made me do to her, or look what your dad made me do to him”(Penn)? True they should never do it in front of their children. But, as kids we don’t understand what’s going on in the adult world. So, we would have never understood the hardships of life. When we’re kids all we see is violence from them, but we never know the reason behind it.

As we get older, our parents teach us what not to do when we’re their age. We also need to understand how important it is to have family support when you go through a hard time in life. So, here you are thinking you can do everything by yourself and make it on your own out there. Parents give us the bits and pieces to where we can make it on our own. They teach us how the world works before we go out there.

In this book called “Into the Wild”: this guy named Christopher McCandless is also known as “Alexander Supertramp” has a dream to survive Alaska’s wilderness by himself. He came from a very privileged family, but Chris didn’t care about things like objects. Christopher was a transcendentalist when it comes to everything he did in life. He adventured out on his own to live out his dream. Before he did all of this; his family was going through some stuff and his parents always fought in front of him plus his sister. So he decided to run away from all the evilness of his family. But, for some reason “Chris felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees” (krakauer.18)

Chris thought that his family was trying to buy his love and his respect with objects all the time. When his parents were just trying to love him and spoil him for being good in everything school wise. Christopher McCandless wanted to live his dream out so much being the transcendentalist that he is. When Christopher McCandless aka "Alexander Supertramp" died; he died happy, but he died by himself with no one around. He may not understand the importance of having a family ,but if you don't have family then what do you have.