Blog Post 3: McCandless Response Essay Opinion Change

When writing my McCandless response essay my opinion was that he was a reckless idiot and not a courageous hero like others might believe. While I was writing my essay I wasn’t thinking at all about his journey across the United States at all, I was strictly thinking about just when he went into Alaska. So it’s hard to relate what we have read to my essay because my examples from my essay don't really fit with the text we just read. An example of this would be that I wrote about how he didn’t have enough materials with him when entering Alaska, but when he started this entire journey he had a car full of stuff. Overall my opinion has not changed since further reading the book. I still think that McCandless is an idiot, but my reasoning in my essay doesn’t match with the last two chapters we just read. I am interested to keep reading and see if at some point in the book my opinion on McCandless will change. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.