Personal impressions?
caroldrums wrote:Did Chris choose to die, comitted suicide, or did he simply "fuck up" the calculations for when to get out of the wilderness?
Well, this seems to be quite obvious. Many things seem to show that he wanted to live. But especially: if he had wanted to die, he would not have written the SOS-note, for example.
caroldrums wrote:Do you think he would've continued hitch hiking through america and maybe extend to other continents too or he would've whent back to his life, got a career, because what had to be done was done?
No idea. Perhaps he didn't know this himself?
caroldrums wrote:Finally, In the beginning of the book he says "you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. " but in the end he writes " HAPPINESS IS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED". Did he rethink the thought?
First of all, it seems he went "into the wild" to kind of find himself and this can naturally include that one rethinks certain things, why not.
But I don't really see a contradiction between these two thoughts here, if you have a closer look at them.
In the film he said this to "Ron", but the real Chris wrote it to him in a letter, not long before leaving for Alaska:
"You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships..."
The note he wrote while starving in the bus read: "Happiness only real when shared"
Sharing happiness with others does not necessarily mean that this happiness has to emanate from the relationship to these "others"; it can also be anything else that "God has placed all around us".
Or am I wrong about that? I don't know. Anyway, that's how I think about these things.
Would be interesting to read further opinions.