Everyone expects to see the best parts of the book when they go to see a movie based on a book, but most of the time “The book is better than the movie ” and that's what happened in Into the Wild. The theme of the film is somewhat the same, but the way it is presented is very different than in the book. The book Into The Wild is a travel essay written by Jon Krakauer. This is a young suburban man from a wealthy family who hitchhiked to Alaska without informing his family. He was Christopher Johnson McCandless, a good man but stubborn in his idealism. He disappeared soon after graduating with honors from college in the summer of 1990, donated his $24,000 graduate school fund to Oxfam, abandoned his car and belongings, burned all money and identity, changed his name Alexander Supertramp and began roaming Northern California. . He worked in different places, made new friends and lived where people welcomed him. He finally reaches Alaska, his dream country. He was found dead by moose hunters on bus 142. He was greatly influenced by Leo Tolstoy who gave up his riches and wandered into the woods. He actually avoided his parents and social environment but unfortunately died without a topographical map, flooding in the river and eating the moldy seeds. Krakauer portrays Chris as a dark and resentful man, very different from the happy drifter in the film. The film excludes essential parts of the book and focuses on Chris's search. It focuses more on the fact that Chris is adventurous, friendly, affectionate but at the same time resentful towards his parents, while Krakauer shows the other side of Chris. However, the film directed by Sean Penn was based on the book that chronicled Chris' life between graduation and death; he concentrated on his... half-sheet... of poor judgment. In the end, Penn tried to make the movie more positive than negative by eliminating the dark sides from the book but as a Reader, I thought the movie would have been better if Penn had added some important details that would satisfy readers like me and say that the film is excellent. It was showing Chris's adventurous journey, which was one of the causes of his resentment towards his parents, but it was unable to express the deeper meaning of Krakuer's book and his wilderness perspective. People shouldn't push idealism too far because otherwise you can only hurt yourself and in wilderness areas like Alaska you can't go back unless you have a reality check. Works Cited Into the Wild. Director Sean Penn. Fundamental year. 2007. Krakauer Jon. In the wild nature. New York: Anchor Book, February 1997. Print.