Love is a Gift you can't Return

" How is it... a kid with so much compassion can cause his family so much pain"(Krakauer 104).

Topic: Family Dynamic

It's definitely a strange thing to hear a father who was so abusive to his children sound so lost when one of them is gone. If you've only ever read the book and never researched deeper into the true Mclandless story, then you may be under the impression that Chris' father was just a oblivious man who misunderstood Chris. But the fact was that his father beat his kids and drove his done to the edge and eventually into the wild. So it came as a surprise to me that his father still continued to care as much as he did after Chris was gone. His father even went on to talk about how much he missed spending time with his son. Now whether this was a ploy by the father to make himself look good or by Krakauer to hide the hard truth, we'll never know. Or it could just be that his father had some hard times but never stopped loving his child. I guess that just goes to show that people can never truly appreciate something until they have to live without it.