Give me your impression of Alex/Chris. Talk about his relationships thus far and how these relationships guide him. Maybe touch on the theme of independence and whether he may or may not be taking it to an extreme.
My immpression of alex/chris is that he is a very independent person but can be social when needed. To me he is taking this whole independence thing way to far. We understand that he wanted to go into the wild to find something worth living for. I personally think he was looking for the experience more then anything. But he has been pretty much cutting himself off from civilization besides the few people he has met along the way of his journey. I don't think the people alex has met along his journet have really ment anything to alex. The people he met have become sort of attached to him in a way and he just seems like he will meet them but won't really form a bond with them. I think he doesn't want to have any relationships that he can't keep.
Chris has many relationships in his life. One realationship is with Jim, he is the one that drives him to the forest in Alaska. Wayne Westerberg also had a good realationship with Chris. Chris used to work for him and Wayne said Chris could come back any time he needed to. Chris was in many realationships but wasn't really indepth in them. He like to be independent from people and took it to an extreme. In chapter 6 Chris said, "You dont need to worry about me. I have a college education. I'm not destitude. I'm living like this by choice."
My impressions of Chris is that he's nuts for doing what he's doing. He should have informed his family on this perilious trek. He wanted to be alone, but he didn't have to do it this way. He met many people on his trip that could have altered his decision on going. Hopefully others will be a bit more successful on changing his mind. Chris Daniels
My impression of Alex/Chris is that he is a really... different person. I think that he is super independant, but he can be very outgoing and social with other people when he wants to, or when he needs to. For example, he is going out into the wilderness by himself with no help, which makes him pretty independant. And, when he was hitch-hiking he was very outgoing when he met Jim Gallien. I do think that Chris/Alex is taking independance to the extreme. I think that he is a very different person because not a lot of people wake up one day and say, i think i'm going to try and survive in the wilderness for a while. It confuses me a lot when i try to think what is going through this guys head. From what I am understanding he didn't really have any bad relationships with family or anything, so that can't be his reason for leaving everything behind. That is what I think about Chris/Alex at this point.
my impression of chris/alex is kind of a mean person. he hated it when his family gave him a car. he fought them and said he didnt want it. then he takes the car and he ended up getting stuck in mud. when he was with jim he would not talk about his personal life. he also didn't listen to jim when he said he needed better equipment. th is how i get the impression about alex/chris.
So far in the book, I really do not like Alex/Chris. I can't really see why any person in their mind would do this. Also, I don't know why in some parts, he will take a ride from someone, but then he won't take a Swiss Army knife from another person? He could easily use the knife in the bush, but instead he takes rides from people when he could just walk, which is the whole point of this trip is to be on his own. I do think that Chris/Alex is taking independence much too far. I mean sure, run away if you want to, but don't leave your family so devastated. His family had no idea that there was anything even wrong with this kid. Usually when someone runs away, the parents know that there is some conflict going on. To add to that, Chris/Alex also confuses me with the relationships he has with others. If he didn't come on this trip for relationships with other people, how could he stay with someone for 2 weeks (Jan Burres) and then leave them? Wouldn't you expect them to be devastated? And how could you not be upset yourself? When Chris/Alex leaves people like this, to me it makes him look like the most unemotional person I've ever heard about. Clearly I do not like Chris/Alex so far in the book.
Chris is a boy that grew up in a restrained home, where your dreams were simply just your dreams, and turned into someone independent and free, named Alex. Mu first impression of Alex when I started reading the book was that he was the happiest man to ever live. He traveled the country, living on his own, seeing the beauty the world has to offer. Never settling in one place but making lasting friendships as he went along. Alex used to be a man named Chris, a man you were contempt in the walls of his own home with no where the free the imagination he has always had. Finally, he broke off from that, he changed his name, emptied his pockets, gathered supplies and set out for the life of solitude, depending on no one and nothing, but the rice in his bag and wandering soul of his mind.
Chris seems to me like a very interesting person. Material things do interest him much, only if there useful or needed. So He probly feels like he dosent need all this schooling because he dosent need all the money. What he finds most important are experiences, like travailing. He might not have many friends at school because of his views and probably is a big criticizer because of them. The relation ships he has on his journey shows that he dose care about other people, and he is actually a pretty friendly guy. But abandoning your family and not telling them were your going seems pretty selfish to me. They would be very worried about him so i think he should at lest call them ones in a wile or have told them were he was going.
I like Alex/Chris so far in the story. He is a very independent person but some of the decisions he makes aren't so smart. He is a smart guy and knows what he wants without anyones help. He has many relationships with many people throughtout the story so far. One is with Wayne Westerberg. Wayne helped out Alex/Chris with a job and He still keeps in touch with Wayne. There has been a couple more relations and the people really helped him out but he doesnt expect anything else from them. He is an independent person and wants to survive on his own. I think he is taking his independence to the extreme.
My immpression on Alex/Chris is that he is a moody type of person. With most of the people he has met so far, he has kinda had an attitude with them. He pushed away everyone that tries to help him. There is a difference between independence and being rude and antisocial. Yes, Alex/Chris is trying to survive on his own and all, but... He still doesn't need to snap and take off. Everyone he meets seems to get attached to him and he doesn't let himself bond with them. It seems like he doesn't want anyone in his life. I think Alex/Chris has taken independence to an extreme.
My impression of Alex is he is social when needed but mostly is an independent person. I think he's not taking independence too far because of one factor. He isn't always alone. He uses other people to get around places. A complete independent person would go along without talking to anybody or telling them where he's going. There would be no book if Alex/Chris was completely independent. One of the relationships of Alex's is Wayne Westerburg. Wayne employed him. Wayne gave him shelter. Wayne told him he could come back whenever he wanted. Wayne was a very nice guy to Chris/Alex.
My immpression of alex/chris is hes a dumbass. Why the hell would you throw all that good in your life away and go live in the wood in alaska? Hes very stubborn, leaves his family, gives up everything just to go explore and be a bum on the streets. He had a 3.72 GPA and he could probibly go anywhere he wanted to, well in a way he kinda did go where he wanted to but thats not the point im trying to make. The point is, he could have been a multimillionare with everything he could have ever wanted, a great family loving kids but no, he had to go wonder and go die of starvation in a sleeping bag. He does meet alot of people along the way and has small relationships with them but nothing major. opps i kinda forgot this is a book and not a real person. the author is a dumbass for making chris/alex go in alaska and die of starvation in a sleeping bag.
My impression of Alex/Chris is that he is very independant and stubborn. I think he's independant because he was willing to go out into land he didnt know well and try to live off the land without the proper supplies. Also he didnt want to accept a lot of help from people that wanted to help him so that also made him very independant. I also think he is very stubborn. Mainly because he burned all of his money, ditched his truck and just got rid of so many things that could have helped him a alot through his journy. I think that if Alex/Chris would have kept some of the things he got rid of he wouldn't have died out in the alaskan wilderness. But Alex/Chris is very independant, to go out into unknown land by himself with not many supplies at all. This may have been his down fall but in doing so he wad being very independant.
My impression of Alex or Chris is that he wants to be a very independent person and intends to do so. I think that he is taking the whole independence thing to an extreme. To be independent you shouldnt have to cut off all communication with your family and hitch hike into alaska. You should just be able to tell your peers to lay off so you can give the whole "more independent" thing a try. Not only does he cut off his family but even his friends. Instead of becoming independent hes making himself homeless. The only social life he has are with the people he gets rides from and some people from where he works. To me thats its being independent at an extreme level. I think all together he just doesnt want relationships in his life.
My impression of Chris is quite confusing. I understand his methods sometimes, but other times he loses me completely. I understand why he set out for this adventure, but I don't understand why he didn't try to work it out with his parents first. He doesn't realize that communication is key. When he travels along his way, he meets different people. Those people are very nice to him, and yet Chris doesn't like to accept help. He is really set in his ways. The relationship he makes with one couple becomes helpful though, because he does accept help and he cares about keeping in touch with them. I think that Chris should still try to work things out with his parents though and just give people a chance, because this matter isn't worth dying for.
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My immpression of alex/chris is that he is a very independent person but can be social when needed. To me he is taking this whole independence thing way to far. We understand that he wanted to go into the wild to find something worth living for. I personally think he was looking for the experience more then anything. But he has been pretty much cutting himself off from civilization besides the few people he has met along the way of his journey. I don't think the people alex has met along his journet have really ment anything to alex. The people he met have become sort of attached to him in a way and he just seems like he will meet them but won't really form a bond with them. I think he doesn't want to have any relationships that he can't keep.
Chris has many relationships in his life. One realationship is with Jim, he is the one that drives him to the forest in Alaska. Wayne Westerberg also had a good realationship with Chris. Chris used to work for him and Wayne said Chris could come back any time he needed to. Chris was in many realationships but wasn't really indepth in them. He like to be independent from people and took it to an extreme. In chapter 6 Chris said, "You dont need to worry about me. I have a college education. I'm not destitude. I'm living like this by choice."
My impressions of Chris is that he's nuts for doing what he's doing. He should have informed his family on this perilious trek. He wanted to be alone, but he didn't have to do it this way. He met many people on his trip that could have altered his decision on going. Hopefully others will be a bit more successful on changing his mind.
Chris Daniels
My impression of Alex/Chris is that he is a really... different person. I think that he is super independant, but he can be very outgoing and social with other people when he wants to, or when he needs to. For example, he is going out into the wilderness by himself with no help, which makes him pretty independant. And, when he was hitch-hiking he was very outgoing when he met Jim Gallien. I do think that Chris/Alex is taking independance to the extreme. I think that he is a very different person because not a lot of people wake up one day and say, i think i'm going to try and survive in the wilderness for a while. It confuses me a lot when i try to think what is going through this guys head. From what I am understanding he didn't really have any bad relationships with family or anything, so that can't be his reason for leaving everything behind. That is what I think about Chris/Alex at this point.
my impression of chris/alex is kind of a mean person. he hated it when his family gave him a car. he fought them and said he didnt want it. then he takes the car and he ended up getting stuck in mud. when he was with jim he would not talk about his personal life. he also didn't listen to jim when he said he needed better equipment. th is how i get the impression about alex/chris.
So far in the book, I really do not like Alex/Chris. I can't really see why any person in their mind would do this. Also, I don't know why in some parts, he will take a ride from someone, but then he won't take a Swiss Army knife from another person? He could easily use the knife in the bush, but instead he takes rides from people when he could just walk, which is the whole point of this trip is to be on his own. I do think that Chris/Alex is taking independence much too far. I mean sure, run away if you want to, but don't leave your family so devastated. His family had no idea that there was anything even wrong with this kid. Usually when someone runs away, the parents know that there is some conflict going on. To add to that, Chris/Alex also confuses me with the relationships he has with others. If he didn't come on this trip for relationships with other people, how could he stay with someone for 2 weeks (Jan Burres) and then leave them? Wouldn't you expect them to be devastated? And how could you not be upset yourself? When Chris/Alex leaves people like this, to me it makes him look like the most unemotional person I've ever heard about. Clearly I do not like Chris/Alex so far in the book.
Chris is a boy that grew up in a restrained home, where your dreams were simply just your dreams, and turned into someone independent and free, named Alex. Mu first impression of Alex when I started reading the book was that he was the happiest man to ever live. He traveled the country, living on his own, seeing the beauty the world has to offer. Never settling in one place but making lasting friendships as he went along. Alex used to be a man named Chris, a man you were contempt in the walls of his own home with no where the free the imagination he has always had. Finally, he broke off from that, he changed his name, emptied his pockets, gathered supplies and set out for the life of solitude, depending on no one and nothing, but the rice in his bag and wandering soul of his mind.
Chris seems to me like a very interesting person. Material things do interest him much, only if there useful or needed. So He probly feels like he dosent need all this schooling because he dosent need all the money. What he finds most important are experiences, like travailing. He might not have many friends at school because of his views and probably is a big criticizer because of them. The relation ships he has on his journey shows that he dose care about other people, and he is actually a pretty friendly guy. But abandoning your family and not telling them were your going seems pretty selfish to me. They would be very worried about him so i think he should at lest call them ones in a wile or have told them were he was going.
I like Alex/Chris so far in the story. He is a very independent person but some of the decisions he makes aren't so smart. He is a smart guy and knows what he wants without anyones help. He has many relationships with many people throughtout the story so far. One is with Wayne Westerberg. Wayne helped out Alex/Chris with a job and He still keeps in touch with Wayne. There has been a couple more relations and the people really helped him out but he doesnt expect anything else from them. He is an independent person and wants to survive on his own. I think he is taking his independence to the extreme.
My immpression on Alex/Chris is that he is a moody type of person. With most of the people he has met so far, he has kinda had an attitude with them. He pushed away everyone that tries to help him. There is a difference between independence and being rude and antisocial. Yes, Alex/Chris is trying to survive on his own and all, but... He still doesn't need to snap and take off. Everyone he meets seems to get attached to him and he doesn't let himself bond with them. It seems like he doesn't want anyone in his life. I think Alex/Chris has taken independence to an extreme.
Mariah Fabean.
My impression of Alex is he is social when needed but mostly is an independent person. I think he's not taking independence too far because of one factor. He isn't always alone. He uses other people to get around places. A complete independent person would go along without talking to anybody or telling them where he's going. There would be no book if Alex/Chris was completely independent. One of the relationships of Alex's is Wayne Westerburg. Wayne employed him. Wayne gave him shelter. Wayne told him he could come back whenever he wanted. Wayne was a very nice guy to Chris/Alex.
My immpression of alex/chris is hes a dumbass. Why the hell would you throw all that good in your life away and go live in the wood in alaska? Hes very stubborn, leaves his family, gives up everything just to go explore and be a bum on the streets. He had a 3.72 GPA and he could probibly go anywhere he wanted to, well in a way he kinda did go where he wanted to but thats not the point im trying to make. The point is, he could have been a multimillionare with everything he could have ever wanted, a great family loving kids but no, he had to go wonder and go die of starvation in a sleeping bag. He does meet alot of people along the way and has small relationships with them but nothing major. opps i kinda forgot this is a book and not a real person. the author is a dumbass for making chris/alex go in alaska and die of starvation in a sleeping bag.
My impression of Alex/Chris is that he is very independant and stubborn. I think he's independant because he was willing to go out into land he didnt know well and try to live off the land without the proper supplies. Also he didnt want to accept a lot of help from people that wanted to help him so that also made him very independant. I also think he is very stubborn. Mainly because he burned all of his money, ditched his truck and just got rid of so many things that could have helped him a alot through his journy. I think that if Alex/Chris would have kept some of the things he got rid of he wouldn't have died out in the alaskan wilderness. But Alex/Chris is very independant, to go out into unknown land by himself with not many supplies at all. This may have been his down fall but in doing so he wad being very independant.
Cable was out for this day sorry!!
My impression of Alex or Chris is that he wants to be a very independent person and intends to do so. I think that he is taking the whole independence thing to an extreme. To be independent you shouldnt have to cut off all communication with your family and hitch hike into alaska. You should just be able to tell your peers to lay off so you can give the whole "more independent" thing a try. Not only does he cut off his family but even his friends. Instead of becoming independent hes making himself homeless. The only social life he has are with the people he gets rides from and some people from where he works. To me thats its being independent at an extreme level. I think all together he just doesnt want relationships in his life.
Sam Taranek
My impression of Chris is quite confusing. I understand his methods sometimes, but other times he loses me completely. I understand why he set out for this adventure, but I don't understand why he didn't try to work it out with his parents first. He doesn't realize that communication is key. When he travels along his way, he meets different people. Those people are very nice to him, and yet Chris doesn't like to accept help. He is really set in his ways. The relationship he makes with one couple becomes helpful though, because he does accept help and he cares about keeping in touch with them. I think that Chris should still try to work things out with his parents though and just give people a chance, because this matter isn't worth dying for.
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