The Family He Never Loved...

'Post' Title: The Family He Never Loved...

"From things he said, you could tell something wasn't right between him and his family, but I don't like to pry into other people's business, so I never asked about it" (Krakauer 18).

Topic: The Dynamics of Family

          Here, it can be said that other people such as Westerberg realised that McCandless had problems with his family. Westerberg was correct with what he said because ever since McCandless was born he felt as if his parents did not what him to be born. This caused him to feel bad about himself and hated his parents since his parents didn't take him seriously. He decided that he is going to stay with them for about few months until his family thinks things are stabilized and then divorce them as his parents once for all and never speak to them ever again. I think that he changed his name to Alex because he didn't want to be found by his family and to live a quiet life in the wilderness. Even if Westerberg asked McCandless about his family he probably wouldn't have answered it due to the fact that he hated his parents and hoped to never see them again.