Chris And The Chief Analysis

Page 1 Self-discovery is defined as the act or process of achieving understanding or knowledge of oneself. To understand ourselves sometimes we have to step outside our own world. In doing this we start to discover new one. Chris and the Chief had to do just that in their journeys of self-discovery. But what they discovered in the end was the most important lesson they would ever learn. Some of the most significant similarities between these two texts are how Chris and the Chief seclude themselves from society, they recreation of their identities, and how people assume they must be crazy. Both Chris and the Chief secluded themselves from society by choice. Chris chose to because he was feed up with our society and its effect on people. Like he states in a letter he sent to his friend Ron: “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to a man than a secured future” (Into the Wild, pg57) .The Chief was too scared to be part of society. He felt that he wouldn’t be
He and Mc Murphy made plans to escape. Mc Murphy says he’s going to help to the Chief become big again. The Chief was finally able to escape the mental institution because Mc Murphy helped him to discover that he could survive in the world. He believed that he was small and insignificant but Mc Murphy tells him that he’s as big as a mountain and that he was string too he just didn’t know it. When Mc Murphy was gone (due to the lobotomy) it gave the Chief the courage and strength he needed to finally rejoin the