Similarities Between Mccandless And John Keating

Keating and McCandless extracted the discoveries of the purposes of life through

unorthodox ways. They emerged themselves into clean and new slates, a sense of solitude. As

Ralph Emerson believed everybody who followed the conformities, they were only

compromising themselves for the bare minimum of the value of their lives. John Keating and

Chris McCandless have mastered their identity following their own hearts and drum beats, not

surrendering to the world the civilization had built, but surrendering to the grounds the earth has

built. John Keating inspired not only one but a whole class of students to follow their hearts, and

McCandless left a true imprint of self-reliance for the rest of the world to aspire to follow. Ralph