Chris McCandless rejects a traditional path of success and instead defines success on his own terms through freedom, experience, and personal meaning. Reflect on what success means to you at your current stage in life. In the response, explain how success is currently defined (grades, college acceptance, achievements, happiness, etc.) and where those ideas come from. Then, consider whether that definition truly reflects personal values or if it is shaped by expectations from family, school, or society.

 Response: As a kid and a student there are a lot of expectations on me for what I will do to reach success. My parents highly push for my success but they see it differently from me. They see my success as getting into a good local Georgia college and getting a good stable job that gets me good money then settling down and living happy for the rest of my life. Personally that doesnt sound as appealing to me as it is for them. I have much less strict ideals of what success is and I think that no matter what I end up doing or where I end up going, as long as I am happy then I have succeeded.

Summary: We read chapters 9 and 10 and did some assignments on them.

Reflection: I found the complete diversion from McCandless a really interesting choice. The way the author uses Ruess as a comparison to McCandless' journey.

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