Into the Wild question

I do not feel like I could be close friends with Chris McCandless. While he was apparently popular in school and a good athlete, I feel like he was too shy and removed for me to have been able to get to know well. He was compared to Henry David Thoreau, who is a person that purposely removed himself from society in order to get in better touch with himself. All of the other people he is compared to in these chapters seem to have had something go wrong between them and society, making me think that McCandless have been completely normal around others. McCandless spent his time trying to get in better touch with himself, which makes me think I would have never been able to get to know him well. I could have been friendly with him through sports and school since he got good grades and was in high classes, but I feel like being friendly would be as close as it would get.
McCandless also did his best to avoid college. I could not be more excited for college. He only viewed going to college as being submissive to his parents’ wishes, which confuses me because he seems to be forcing himself to be rebellious. In the quotes from his family throughout the chapters, they cared about him a lot, so I don’t understand why he seems to want to be removed from them. College is also another form of education, and he seems to have not enjoyed his education to this point, so that could also add to his idea of skipping college.