Chapter 16. Page 167. Paragraph 6.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
McCandless vs. Thoreau Quote 4
"Shortly after the moose episode McCandless began to read Thoreau's Walden. In the chapter titled "Higher Laws," in which Thoreau ruminates on the morality of eating, McCandless highlighted, "when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than in came to."
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McCandless killed a moose, which he tried to preserve for as long as he could. He spent six days cleaning the meat and smoking it over a fire. When he read this passage from Walden, he realized that killing the moose was actually a waste of time. McCandless could relate to the thought of wasting time to preserve it, when he could of picked berries or traveled to a better location to camp. Thoreau makes the point in this passage that catching the fish cost more than it came to. This made McCandless think about whether he might of made a huge mistake by killing the moose. Maybe he would still be alive if he spent those six days gathering edible berries and not trying to preserve meat that spoiled.
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