- Striving for material success gets in the way of a spiritual quest for truth.
- Chris McCandless was on a transcendental odyssey.
Read Osprey Keiran Eagen’s intertextual email exchange with Nick Jans
*Note: Nick Jans is the author in Chapter 8 (p.71-72) who criticized Chris and Krakauer’s coverage of him.
JOURNAL 2.5: CHRIS AS TRANSCENDENTALIST?
Reader Response: Do you agree with Keiran or with Nick Jans? Was Chris McCandless less competent than a boy scout? Or was he on a transcendental path that is worthy of our study?
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