Paul Shepard
Paul Shepard had many notable works
including: The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game,
Nature and Madness, Coming Home to the Pleistocene,
Where we Belong, and the Others. My favorite line is "In
an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes
grandly reflecting the earth's curvature on their concave
undersides." (4.26) Paul Shepard connects to Chris
McCandless because of his thinking of isolation to find reality
found in the last paragraph.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy wrote many notable works including:
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, A Confession, The Kingdom of
God Is Within You, and Resurrection. My favorite line from hi
quote is "I wanted movement and not a calm course of
existence." (3.15) Leo Tolstoy connects to Chris because of how
he loved to travel.
Thomas Roszak
Thomas Roszak wrote Glass House: A Family
Home. My favorite line from his quote is "It may, after all, be
the bad habi of creative talents to invest themselves in
pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights" (8.70)
Thomas Roszak connects with Chris in his belief that you must
go through dangerous and extreme situations to yield great
rewards.
I really like the quote "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." by Helen Keller I think Chris was doing what he wanted on his trip across the United States and he was happy with his goal of the trip to Alaska.
