In Walden, Thoreau says “Sometimes I bolted suddenly, and nobody could tell my whereabouts, for I did not stand much about gracefulness, and never hesitated at a gap in a fence.” McCandless would appreciate this quote because it describes his current situation and feeling toward his life. He likes to just leave the world behind whenever he can and tell no one where he has gone, as though to separate himself from the modern world. He did not care what he left behind, worried parents, abandoned car, burnt money, his bank account drained and given to charity, even a completely new identity, Alexander Supertramp. McCandless and Thoreau connected in that they both wanted to leave their societies behind, to separate from materialism.
