Into the Wild

Personally, I really enjoyed the book “Into the Wild,” it gives the audience the idea that money isn’t necessarily that root of happiness as the main character Christopher Johnson gives up all his money to move into the wild. I read this book at a young age, and kind of understood the moral and meaning behind the story. At a young age, I was a little immature and didn’t understand why a man would give up all his money and move to the wild. But now at a more mature age and having a better understanding I feel that this book would be perfect to teach to my students, as it gives life lessons and a lot of morals within the text. The context that I would present to my students would be the themes, and the settings behind the text and how they relate to each other and the beauty behind the setting of the narrative. The setting part of the text, I would have my students gives descriptions of the bus and how they visualize the way Alaska looks and the beauty behind it. I would want my students to give possible themes and ideas behind certain text that I picked out and give their thoughts and opinion on the text to allow me to understand their way of thinking or thought process. However, the possible challenges that I could be facing would be from the parents, as the book discusses a lot of sexually thoughts and ideas that Christopher writes about his friends and gives his point of view whether the person was sexually active or not. But also, parents wouldn’t be to thrill with how the main character discusses him and his friends drinking, which could be a big influence on their children. Yet, with the school district and board, I feel that they would be understanding and allowing me to teach this book to my students, as my old middle school and teacher was allowed to teach us this book at a 7^th grade level, which was a great experience as we had a lot of great discussions inside the classroom.