Status Updates From Into the Wild - Voyage au b...

"The boy could barely contain his excitement. He was, at long last, about to be alone in the vast Alaska wilds."

Years after Chris left "Billie was asleep ...she sat bolt upright in the middle of the night... 'I was sure I'd heard Chris calling me,' she insists, tears rolling down her cheeks. 'I don't know how I'll ever get over it. I wasn't dreaming. I didn't imagine it. I heard his voice! He was begging, 'Mom! Help me!'' but I couldn't help him because I didn't know where he was. And that was all he said: 'Mom! Help me!'"

This book has been calling out to me the past two weeks or so, and after spending some time reading it I have an understanding as to why. I originally skimmed Into The Wild in eleventh grade, but I didn’t spend the time trying to understand what it was trying to say, I just wasn’t interested and things seemed so simple then.

I will absolutely have more to say about the themes, the tones, juxtapositions; soon!