Fight of Flight

“A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence—the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes—all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand"(Krakauer 142-143). Even though this is Krakauer’s point of view it juxtaposes how Chris would feel in the same situation. Chris McCandless’s trek through the wild, becomes more of an escape for him. He pushes away all of his family, and friends he used to know and leaves it all behind him. This is one of his coping abilities to how he was treated as a kid. His family was not the most supportive to say the least. The intense focus required to survive such riveting activities, needs complete focus and so Krakauer can reach a kind of meditative state.