Into the Wild... and away from everything else, even time itself!

"I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters." (Krakauer 7).

Topic: Wanting to be part of the wild

     This quote can completely sum up how people who want to be away from society feel, they don't want to know anything, they just want to be completely submerged in the wild. People who want to be off the grid and isolated from everyone don't want to know anything about the 'outside world'. This quote and the character Christopher McCandless is also similar to the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and its main character Brian Robeson. Both characters end up alone in the wild and find ways to survive, and both also like the idea of being in the wild cut from society. Both also didn't know the time or date when they were in the wild. What I'm trying to say is that time and date are things that are created from society, as the Gregorian calendar started in 1582 by Pope Gregory the 13th. Essentially the numbers for time were created by man and is technically an illusion as it is relative and flexible (gravity slowing down time). So with these things what Christopher McCandless was trying to do is let go of EVERYTHING in society even TIME.