Adam's Honors English 9 Blog: Famous Favorite Quotes

Favorite Famous Quotes Chart

Writer	Books Mentioned by the Writer	Quote	Connection to Chris McCandless
Paul Shepard	Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature	“Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.” (pg. 25)	The whole point of Chris McCandless venturing out to the desert was to start a new life, not to escape his family.
Jack London	White Fang	“There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.” (pg. 9)	The place Chris McCandless was camping in contained a dead silence and a laughter that is even more terrible than extreme sadness. This is how Chris was living in.
Anthony Storr	Solitude: A Return to the Shelf	“It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated.” (pg. 61)	This quote completely describes Chris because he wants to be isolated from every human possible and he absolutely does not want to have a personal relationship with anyone. He wants to live in the wild.
My Favorite Quote (from Jesse Owens)		“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”	Chris would not like this quote because he does not want to have anything to do with any personal relationship in life. Chris though was a friendly person, he just did not wanted to be buried in a deep, personal relationship with someone.