Think about a moment when your understanding of your family changed as you got older. How did that shift impact your perspective, and how does that connect to Chris’s realization about his parents in Chapter 11?

 

    As I got older I stopped seeing my parents as people higher than me a latter more of equals. I don't fully see us as equals yet, but I have started talking to them more as friends. Instead of them doing everything more for me, I have started working with them more, I've started cooking dinners, cleaning the house, and doing laundry. I have become more independent from them, and I'm trying to get more used to it since I'm soon going off to college. McCandless also wanted independence from his home life. He was much more prepared than I was, and he fully went off the grid, but still we both are trying to move towards independents.


I read chapter 11.


Learned more about McCandless.

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