Chapter 3 Question 4

        After thinking about the story, and going through each of these questions, my view has slightly changed. I am alittle confused on what I really think Chris' intentions were when going into the wild. He gave away everything he owned and saved nothing. He told no one where he was going, almost as if he never wanted to be found. Before I was set on the thinking that maybe he just wanted to live day by day and not worry about the future. In his own way though, he was worrying about the future by getting rid of everything he had. If he had intentions of coming out of the woods, then wouldn't he have saved some of the things he owned. $25,000 is a lot of money, he could've donated half and saved the other half for when he came out of the woods, unless he had no intention of coming out. I think Emerson and Thoreau would admire Chris' ambition, but I think they would frown upon him for foolishly going into the wild unprepared and without telling anyone. Chris is different from Emerson, because Chris actually lived out transcendentalism, whereas Emerson just wrote his theories about it. Chris is different from Thoreau because Thoreau went somewhere, where he intended to go into town once in a while to interact with people and to get supplies, he also told people where he was going. Chris did the exact opposite, Chris did not tell anyone where he was going, he did not intend on going into town to get supplies or interact with people, and he did not bring money to buy food or supplies.