Themes

A theme of a novel is its main ideas. For instsance, Into the Wild has two or three possible themes, but I will choose what MacCandless wanted in the first place which is the ultimate freedom. During my reading throughout this book, I figured out that freedom is what all this story about. I mean it is the reason he left and abandoned everything, he wanted to feel that ultimate freedom. So, he chose the Alaska to live completely alone where are no rules except the nature’s rules! However, I believe this theme, which is freedom, is a recurring theme in many travel books, most of the travelers who set out on a journey, seek that ultimate freedom, but does that freedom require that level of isolation?! Can not you feel it while living within your society?! Well, I believe that most travelers or book writers who chose freedom as their main theme or goal, feel like they have some obligations towards other people when living amongst them, so they leave and abandon everything to get rod of all these obligaions. And that is what MacCandless did, he could not bear the tensions living in this modern part of the world, so he decided to go to the Alaskan wilderness as an endeavour to find that freedom.