Examples Of Transcendentalism In Into The Wild

Transcendentalism is a belief in a higher reality, knowledge, and an experience that is only achieved by humans. Also, it suggests that every individual is capable of discovering their higher truth. One way to figure this is by non-conformity which means that they fail or refuse to follow the rules as while as with established customs, attitudes or ideas. In “Into the Wild”, “Stride Toward Freedom” and Monster Inc we can all see the trait non-conformity.

“Into the Wild” is about a 24-year-old man named Christopher Johnson McCandless and how one day he decided that he had enough with society. So he hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley with very little possessions with him. Through the book, they start talking about when he was in school and how Chris got an F in one of his lab reports in physics just for not following the correct format because he “...thought it was a stupid rule and decided to ignore it.”(pg. 109) Because of this, his dad goes to talk to his teacher and afterwards, he says “He did his lab reports, but not the correct

King was saying that the best weapon for African Americans during this time was acquiescence or doing nothing about what people had to make them go, though. Also, Martin Luther King states “So acquiescence, while often the easier way, is not the moral way. It is the way of the coward.” This quote means that if you don’t do anything to defend yourself that might be an easy way out of that a coward would do, even though you want to do the opposite thing. Therefore, this goes with non-conformity because many people today will do something/confront you about it and not be a coward even though it’s not the right way to do things and it’s also not easy for some people to