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or that they think I’d actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go.... I’ve told them a million times that I have the best car in the world, a
car that has spanned the continent from Miami to Alaska, a car that has in all those thousands of miles not given me a single problem, a car that I will
never trade in, a car that I am very strongly attached to—yet they ignore what I say and think I’d actually accept a new car from them I’m going to
have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.
In this datum, McCandless complained to his sister, Carine, about his parent’s idea to buy him a new car. He strongly offended by this idea to his parents. He
thought his car is still in the best condition, he even thought that his parents measured everything by money in other word materialistic. He thought that gift
can buy his respect. That’s why he refused his parent wish to buy him a new car.
4.2.2.2 The rules that imprisoned human’s life
A rule is a word that rules human life. It gives line and fence for people, in order not cross it. In other word make cage around them. Rules in the modern society
are getting stricter, they treat people in different ways. To begin with strict abiding to laws by people is possible only by imposing punishments for those who
deviates the laws enacted by the government. If there wasn’t any traffic rules and punishment for the desecration of traffic regulations, there would be disorder
prevailing in the road which would have been the greatest problem of modern
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society. This is what McCandless hated, why they make rules if it just for their profit not for the dignity of the justice itself. Here is datum 10,
If he went to the rangers, however, they would have some irksome questions for him: Why had he ignored posted regulations and driven down the wash in the
first place? Was he aware that the vehicle’s registration had expired two years before and had not been renewed? Did he know that his driver’s license had
also expired, and the vehicle was uninsured as well? Truthful responses to these queries were not likely to be well received by the
rangers. McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statutes of a higher order—that as a latter-day adherent of Henry David Thoreau, he took
as gospel the essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state. It was improbable,
however, that deputies of the federal government would share his point of view.
In this datum, it tells the story when McCandless’s car was flown out by sandstone, then, since his car machine did not work, he decided to leave it.
Because he would not give his car to the rangers that would asked some questions that troubled him. In this datum we can also conclude that, what McCandless done
to his car by did not renew his vehicle registration and his driver license also uninsured his car too, were his act to flout or against the laws of the state as his
favorite authors did, Thoreau , on his book “ On the duty of Civil Disobedience “. McCandless did not care about government rules and bureaucracy, He did not
afraid for being caught, he only believes in his gospel “On the duty of Civil Disobedience”. Like in the datum 11:
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Gallien asked whether he had a hunting license. “Hell, no,” Alex scoffed. “How I feed myself is none of the government’s
business. Fuck their stupid rules.”
In this datum, it tells about how he showed his protest against law. He did not care whether he had a hunting license or not, he had a thought that it is none of
government business how he fed himself, also it is not important to have a license, because it did not change at all. He disobeyed all the government rules, he only
put his faith on Thoreau’s book. Why he was so hate with government rules is about unsolved problems by law in this era, we will root his youth in his college,
here is datum 12; in 1988, as Chris’s resentment of his parents hardened, his sense of outrage
over injustice in the world at large grew. started complaining about all the rich kids at Emory.” More and more of the classes he took addressed such
pressing social issues as racism and world hunger and inequities in the distribution of wealth.
This datum tells about one of McCandless’s past, In 1988 , because of the broken home family he had, he find a way to release his emotion by studying social class
that open his eyes about nowadays injustice policies, he wanted to know more about injustice a lot. Then he took social class as mentioned above.
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4.2.2.3 The domination of time over human
