When I say something is a good story I mean it. That is one of the highest compliments a story will ever receive from me. Into The Wild is one of those stories.
This is what a tragedy is. The story is about one young man bringing about his own absolute destruction. Driven by whatever it is within us that drives us to do what we do, this young man sets out on journeys we only hear of, read about, but never actually live.
There is something touching about a person who does what we do not have the courage or desire to, to think what is right. There is something touching about a young man whose dream comes true, only to realize that everything has a price. This something makes us happy and sad at the same time.
Our main character is in search of happiness. He is too intelligent for his own good. He gives up all that he knows to embark on a journey driven by the passion he can only share with literature. In his search for what human beings should be he enters into isolation. He pays the ultimate price for his lesson. This is a good story, this is what stories should be.
His lesson, his message to us, what he learned so we do not have to is this:
"Happiness only real when shared".
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