Wow, I totally thought INFP in the movie.
I haven't read the book but plan to soon.
Regardless of his type, I fine his story very inspiring.
We are all morons. It just happens to not end is death most of the time.
This guy went out of his way to put himself in a dangerous situation. So, double moron. Read the book. He is sympathetic, but more in a way you might feel about the stupid, earnest kid down the street who keeps getting into trouble because he's so naive.
This guy went out of his way to put himself in a dangerous situation. So, double moron. Read the book. He is sympathetic, but more in a way you might feel about the stupid, earnest kid down the street who keeps getting into trouble because he's so naive.
You don't drive on the freeway, do you? One of the most dangerous things you know do ya know.
Naive, yeah... but I didn't have quite that bad a feeling about him.
Theoretically, he was pretty sharp. He just really had never managed to run into a situation he hadn't been able to handle by his own mind and resolve of will before... but no kid has that level of experience to know, and he went damned further than many other kids his age who never strive beyond the box out of sheer laziness or lack of imagination.
He just had no real margin of error, and I think 95% of his peers would have died long before.
You want to compare an adult driving on the freeway with an unbalanced kid rushing off into the Alaskan wilderness unprepared? Interesting.
He just had no real margin of error, and I think 95% of his peers would have died long before.
"Kids" drive on freeways too.
And yes, I do.
It's actually pretty difficult to die. More difficult than we might assume. Our bodies are the product of millions of years of survival imperative. Absent physical accidents or externalities like disease, you really have to work at dying especially when young and vigorous.
Come on, I think a lot of other people his age wouldn't have made it as far as he did.
Sure, that's logical. Let's do an experiment and send 10,000 young men into similar circumstances. 9,000 die pretty quickly once it gets cold and food runs out; 900 die by slow starvation, unwilling or unable to extricate themselves; 100 survive somehow. What would the result prove exactly?
Theoretically, he was pretty sharp. He just really had never managed to run into a situation he hadn't been able to handle by his own mind and resolve of will before... but no kid has that level of experience to know, and he went damned further than many other kids his age who never strive beyond the box out of sheer laziness or lack of imagination.
You're a Romantic.
Thanks. Should I say you're a cynic?
Right there, dude.
The guy was traveling all over the country for months doing odd jobs under harsh environmental conditions AND was more in the bracket for "violent crime victim" -- a transient, carrying loose money, and young. (I think he did have stuff stolen from him at least once.) Only being female might have made it worse for him, as far as being a crime target.
Then into the Alaskan wild with the supplies he (didn't) have... with reduced nutrition, no doctor supervision or medical supplies really, no vitamins, no one to help if an accident happened? I'm pretty sure he got sick a few times badly, I just haven't read the book for a number of years.
Come on, I think a lot of other people his age wouldn't have made it as far as he did.
This guy went out of his way to put himself in a dangerous situation. So, double moron. Read the book. He is sympathetic, but more in a way you might feel about the stupid, earnest kid down the street who keeps getting into trouble because he's so naive.
Jennifer said:Then into the Alaskan wild with the supplies he (didn't) have... with reduced nutrition, no doctor supervision or medical supplies really, no vitamins, no one to help if an accident happened? I'm pretty sure he got sick a few times badly, I just haven't read the book for a number of years.