Intersection of the Passion Project and Into the Wild

Connection: Passion Project & Into the Wild

        

          The connection between the passion project and Into the Wild is that a people should have their choice in what they want to do in life.  As for Into the Wild, Chris did not follow the privilege of society and how it portrays "The new age of living".  The new age of living is a privilege in society to be expected to have the latest technology in cell phones, Bluetooth items, IPOD, I Pad and other electronic equipment.  In addition, today's environment everybody is always in a rush or in a hurry to get somewhere.  Every day we see people driving while talking on the cell phone.  Fast food, fast cars and everything else fast!  With the two combined we have people living in a fast pace lifestyle and being consumed by all the electrical gadgets around them.  People rely on electronic equipment keep them organized or to keep then entertained.  Chris's decision to walk away from materialistic things and opt to live with the freedom from complexities, intricacy and pretentious.  Traveling only on foot with a few supplies, books and his backpack.  "His life hummed with meaning and purpose.  But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily (Krakauer, pp. 184)."  For this reason, he gave up all the luxuries so he could live his life the way he wanted.  Chris's passion was to live in "simplicity".

         In the passion project, it describes how students are undecided in what they want to do as far as careers.  Sometimes their parents want them to do what they feel they should do in a career. These youths should tap into what drives them to have passion.  To have that free will and choice to "Do what they feel passionate about doing in their life or career without the opinion of others.  

There are too many situations where the children were told by their parents to study and become a nurse, lawyer, engineer etc...  As a result, they settle for what their parents wanted them to be instead of doing what they really wanted to do.   "At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence (pp. 22)."