"... I knew right away. There was no doubt. It was Chris. I went home, picked up Michele, my wife, and drove out to Maryland to tell Dad and Billie. I didn't know what I was going to say. How do you tell someone their child is dead?"(Krakauer 102).
The Dynamics of Family
I feel like at this point of the book you get an insightful view of the unintentional pain that was brought upon the McCandless family from Chris's passing. The burden that Sam, Chris half-brother, has to carry on with telling McCandless parents that he is gone is something unbelievably hard to do. I cannot imagine anyone telling any parent that their child is dead. How would you even approach that subject? Like what would you do? Just walk up to them and be like " Hey... bad news... your kids dead", and just continue on like you never said that? Any mentioning of death is a hard subject, and is painful to see the shock and the process of grief. In this part of the book you really see the dynamic of the McCandless family, and how much Chris's carelessness for his safe-being has affected each member. The author himself gets to see the physical pain that Chris's death has caused them. Despite all the bad blood that has been cycled between Chris and his family, it is very clear that Chris had a major impact on each individual in and out of his family, and will never be forgotten.
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