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4.2.2.3 The domination of time over human
Time for modern people is a guide, which always give them schedule and warn them for some appointment. The good thing is that our life is organized and well
managed. But for some reason, some people want to find an “escape”. Because they do not want to get stuck in a “pattern” and bored with the well organized of
their life. It is no doubt that people want to be free, and there are only two people, they who stay in on the line and find an “escape”. Backpackers are one of the
“escape” finder, they break the cage and leave the routine activities they have. When people do backpacking, they do not have an organized trip, schedule or
some trouble thing. Here is datum 13: Alex insisted on giving Gallien his watch, his comb, and what he said was
all his money: eighty-five cents in loose change. “I don’t want your money,” Gallien protested, “and I already have a watch.”
“If you don’t take it, I’m going to throw it away,” Alex cheerfully retorted. “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.”
In this datum, it tells about the conversation of McCandless with a driver, named Gallien, who drove him from Fairbanks to the edge of Denali Park, his
start for entering his dream lay on, the Last Frontier, Alaska. In this datum, McCandless force Gallien to accept all of his remains belonging, one of them is
his watch, whom he always put in his wrist. Then he said, that he did not want to
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know what time nor day would be, he wanted to be free from time that always scheduled him in everything. Like in datum 14:
McCandless explained to Burres that he’d grown tired of Bullhead, tired of punching a clock, tired of the “plastic people” he worked with, and decided
to get the hell out of town. It was happened during his backpacking trip, when he finally wanted to
settle down in Bullhead city, then he made up his mind at last, he tired of scheduled time from the restaurant he worked, he could not bear to be ruled by
other people. He did backpacking to get his freedom not to be bound in a rule, then he left his job and back to the road, as he used to.
4.2.2.4 The “Plastic” Society
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