Flaws vs. Perfection

From the reading, "Into the Wild", both Evans and Nash convey that humans want to escape from their current busy lifestyle and instead approach life with a different attitude and mindset, acquring solitude and simplicity. Evans conveys his message by using elaborate vocabulary and punctuation to emphasize the importance of the wilderness as an escape from society. He feels that the human civilization is just full of exploitations and flaws. Humans falsely assume that human civilization is a model for ideal society and perfection. Paradoxically, he believes that even though the wilderness is a place that requires a lot of danger and suffering, humans can acquire solitude and purity. In order to experience life in the wilderness, we first have to approach the environment in a different light. Similarly, Nash utilizes simple sentences and also claims that wilderness is a place "appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works" or human civilization. He discloses in detail that the wilderness could also be a place for Romantic individuals so that they could escape from their previous principles with their soul and change their outlook on the environment. As we connect the idea of solitude from both authors, we can conclude that they concur that humans have contradicting views on the wilderness and the natural world or human civilization. If humans want to break free from the imperfections of human civilization and attain freedom and happiness, they must suffer throught the hard times of savage life in the wilderness. In reality, human civilization satisfies human desires but not happiness but wilderness and savage life satisfies freedom and solitude but not human desires.