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hitchhiking, met some vagabonds along the way, spent a week on the mountains then drove back to the roads.
From the description and analysis above we can conclude that most of backpacking trip is full of adventurous thing start from hitchhiking, canoe trip,
Alaska and many trips which had not mentioned.
4.1.5 Lifestyle
Backpacking is a lifestyle. It’s true, when people tend to live in their flat or their apartment with everything is already available or just to stay in one place for their
entire of life, backpacking offers to live with many unusual way, like simple living, adventurous life and so on. In this story, by backpacking McCandless lived
like a drifter but felt real happy. Here is datum 19: When he returned to McCandless’s camp and launched into the
selfimprovement in pitch, though, McCandless cut him off abruptly. “Look, Mr. Franz,” he declared, “you don’t need to worry about me. I have a
college education. I’m not destitute. I’m living like this by choice.” And then, despite his initial prickliness, the young man warmed to the old-timer,
and the two engaged in a long conversation.
In this datum, Franz advised McCandless to find a better way to live, but he said it was my own choice of life proudly. He did backpacking for some years
were as his dream to live in freedom, silent and peace not as his past with his “broken home “family. Another backpackers who regard backpacking as a
lifestyle, is in datum 3;
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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 really stupid hat,” says Jan Burres, a forty-one-year-old
rubber tramp who was traveling around the West selling knick-knacks at 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.
In this datum we will focus in Jan and Bob Burres, as we know that they were rubber tramp who travelling around with their van and selling knick-knacks
at flea markets. They live on the road, they chose how they live by themselves. In other word they also called by RV’s, The RV lifestyle is made up of those
interested in traveling and camping
rather than living in one location, as well as by vacationers. Some travel nearer the equator during the winter months in their
RV and return in spring. This is why they are sometimes referred to as a snowbirding
in the USA. There is also a large segment of younger people who participate in the RV lifestyle. Those who live in an RV are known as fulltimers
and live H.O.W. Houses On Wheels in comparison to those who live primarily in a house and are known as slabbers or part-timers. There is another subculture of
the RV lifestyle known as workampers, these are people that work at the campgroundsRV parks they stay at for site and perks.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusion
After doing the analysis in the previous chapter, I draw some points as the conclusion of the analysis. Into the Wild is a novel by Jon Krakauer that tells
about the adventure of Chris McCandless’s escape from the ‘plastic’ modern society he had. He tried it through to do it by backpacking to Alaska. By
backpacking, he showed his protest against modern life also he found freedom and destiny that he had dreamt about.
Why he did backpacking as his escape from the entire things that made him revolted is because by backpacking he found his true life. He could moved
from one place to another place as he wants which simply called nomadic movement, also we can see the other wanderer is Jan and Rainey, vagabonds who
lives in his RV as their mobile home. He could also had undetermined time for his trip, which in the story he spent 2 years for wandering around, and also he had a
simple life during his trip by backpacking, he slept in road or someone house or even sleep in bushes, went around anywhere he wanted by hitchhiking, live
simply without phone, pet, cigarette nor phone too. And he did not feel suffer or on a pressure to live like so, he was happy with everything he did.
By simple living and backpacking, he also showed his protest against modern life, he cursed and refused for modern life. He felt sick more than enough
