Assignment 3: Chapter 1, Question 1

Chris McCandless says,"I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters."  There are three quotes that I found from the text that parallel as inspiration for Chris' thinking from Walden, Solitiude and Where I Lived, by Thoreau.  In Solitude, Thoreau states,"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."  This shows that all you need in life is to be alone and away from all socitey. Another quote from Where I Lived words,"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature."  This quote shows that it does not matter what society, time, and money mean to our lives; our lives are meant to be spent in Nature in solidarity and happiness.  The last quote from Where I Lived states, "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is." I see the parallelism in this quote because it is showing how time is of very little importance.  The important thing is what you do with the time you are given.