Based on the first 40 minutes of the film and Chapters 1–11 of the book, does the visual version of Chris’s journey make his choices seem more justified or more reckless than the text does? Explain how the medium (film vs writing) shapes your perspective.

 

 After watching the movie the visual version of Chris's journey makes his choices seem much more justified. You can see him laughing to himself, and in all just having a great time. The movie shows his sister monologue about how this was going to happen, and that he has always wanted this. Yet in the book it starts off with the cover saying that he's going to die. The movie kind of shows this at the beginning with his mom, but not really. The book also talks about how unprepared Chris was, and that people who talked to him like the driver at the beginning saw him as having too much ambition, and confidence. With the film trying to show what it was like for him to live, and the joy he got from it, makes his action seem really justified.


We watch the movie.


I learned more about McCandless's sister.

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