Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.–Khalil Gibran
Good afternoon, class. Hope you are well.
In today's scheduled film, we follow the true story of a young man alienated from family and society who seeks to find himself, to heal himself, too, in the truths that wild nature and "freedom" provide him. He opts for a simple life on the road, and so leaves his comfortable life behind and sets out for the West, a place of vast landscapes and seemingly endless opportunities for adventure. The title of the film is Into the Wild (2007), directed by Sean Penn.
As a companion piece, you might read Henry David Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I Lived For," a chapter from Walden, a book inspired by an experiment he made in living simply and wisely, which involved retiring to a small cabin he himself built by Walden pond in Massachesetts, "where he would front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." The book is available online in its entirety.
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