Chris McCandless rejects a traditional path of success and instead defines success on his own terms through freedom, experience, and personal meaning. Reflect on what success means to you at your current stage in life. In the response, explain how success is currently defined (grades, college acceptance, achievements, happiness, etc.) and where those ideas come from. Then, consider whether that definition truly reflects personal values or if it is shaped by expectations from family, school, or society.

 Prompt: In my life right now, success would be passing my class and grade because then I would know that I did the best I could to continue forward. My ideas come from the fact that I to prove to myself that I am capable of doing things that require hard work and dedication to acquire. My success is shaped from my mother. I want to be able to graduate and make me and my mother proud as I would be a 1 generation graduate in my family. I want to do it because my mother's dreams were cut from her at a very young age and I to show her that her children will be able to take good care for her like she did for us. 

Summary: Today in class we read chapter 9 and 10 of the books "into the wild" and wrote what should be researched and how we connect to the book. 

Reflection: Today in class I learned about the disappearance of Ruess.