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to death. As he died, he continued to write, detailing his painful death as a dramatic
ending to his autobiography.
4.2.1 The implementation of backpacking life in Into the Wild
novel
As time goes by, the world has transmuting into something new as human want, but also what they are flustered to. Human invented skyscrapers for business area
and future building, but they also feel surfeited with those atmospheres. They are mad against to war, although they evolve their research in weapon and military.
They feel they imprisoned themselves in their own cage, they want to find their freedom in somewhere out of their house, some of them set out a new life by
living nomadically, such as hippies and backpackers.
4.2.1.1 Nomadic movement
Backpacking is an activity which is well indentified with nomadic movement or activity. Most of Backpackers often stay in one place just for couple days or
couple weeks, then move out to the other place. Backpackers therefore seem to be driven into the far corners of the globe by the ‘experience hunger’ of modern
society de Cauter, 1995, which also forces them into becoming nomadic. Once they have consumed the experiences offered by one place, they need to move on
to find new ones. Just like traditional nomadic people, the global nomad constantly moves from place to place. Datum 1 is one of the nomadic routes of
one of the backpackers in the Movie”into the wild” John McCanddless, the main character in the Movie;
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At the end of July, he accepted a ride from a man who called himself Crazy Ernie and offered McCandless a job on a ranch in northern California;
photographs of the place show an un-painted, tumbledown house surrounded by goats and chickens, bedsprings, broken televisions, shopping
carts, old appliances, and mounds and mounds of garbage. After working there eleven days with six other vagabonds, it became clear to McCandless
that Ernie had no intention of ever paying him, so he stole a red ten-speed bicycle from the clutter
In the yard, pedaled into Chico, and ditched the bike in a mall parking lot. Then he resumed a life of constant motion, riding his thumb north and west
through Red Bluff, Weaverville, and Willow Creek. The datum above was one of the John McCandless’s routes, He did not
stuck out for staying in one place, he just stay for couple days then back into his
real life, tramping along the way, doing Hitchhiking along the way,
get a free ride: to get a ride from a passing vehicle, usually by standing at the
side of the road and holding out the hand with the thumb raised Encarta Dictionaries. Hitchhiking is often done by the backpackers
to cut out their expenses in their trip. So they can save their money for the next trip. Sometimes if they run out of money, they will take some
dirty jobs like work in the ranch, farm, and restaurants; A real backpacker never stays in a certain place for a long time, they work as
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they need to, and then drive away, back to his “normal” life. Here is datum 2;
some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four-month sentence in Sioux Falls. With Westerberg in stir, there was no
work at the grain elevator for McCandless, so on October 23, sooner than he might have under different circumstances, the boy left town and resumed
a nomadic existence.
On September 1991, Chris worked for Wayne, in his grain field as grain elevator for couple weeks, then on
October 23
, as a real backpacker does, he did not stay for a long time, then he drove his
way back to the road. The other backpackers are found in this story; they are Jan and
Bob Burres, they called rubber tramps, because they used their van for their mobile home, here is datum 3;
At Arcata, California, in the dripping redwood forests of the Pacific shore, McCandless turned right on U.S. Highway 101 and headed up the coast.
Sixty miles south of the Oregon line, near the town of Orick, a pair of drifters in an old van pulled over to consult their map when they noticed a
boy crouching in the bushes off the side of the road. “He was wearing long shorts and this reallystupid hat,” says Jan Burres, a forty-one-year-old
rubber tramp who was traveling around the West selling knick-knacks at
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flea markets and swap meets with her boyfriend, Bob. “He had a book about plants with him, and he was using it to pick berries, collecting them in a
gallon milk jug with the top cut off. He looked pretty pitiful, so I yelled, ‘Hey, you want a ride somewhere?’ I thought maybe we could give him a
meal or something.
In datum 3, they who travel by car or van, or RV’s Recreational Vehicle are well-known as rubber tramps. They moved from one place to another place. In
North America the term recreational vehicle and its acronym, RV, are generally
used to refer to a vehicle equipped with living space and amenities found in a home; they are sometimes called motorhomes. A recreational vehicle normally
includes a kitchen, a bathroom, a bedroom and a living room. In other countries the term
camper van is more common, and the vehicles themselves vary, typically
being smaller than in North America Wikipedia, free encyclopedia, Many of Americans use RV for long trip, so they do not need to rent a or some rooms in
hotel or motel. This phenomenon makes a lot of people tend to spend their life on the road or nomadic life.
4.2.1.2 Long length of trip
