The article itself was very intriguing and related to a lot of the self identity issues addressed in Into the Wild, The Great Gatsby and Invisible Man. Such as the fact that the guy did not tell anyone where he was going not even his girlfriend or close relatives. He wanted to escape this "blindness" of reality and very see what the world was all about the way he wanted to. Also he sent letters to his family however he did so that they were not able to contact him in any way. He made up a fake name in order to start over and fresh. So that people would not judge him upon his title but his character. He saw this all as an adventure and would take the consequences that followed for his mistakes that he made along the way. However, with today's technology and knowledge people have access to, I do not believe a person would be able to 'disappear' from the digital world. Even if you were to wipe away all traces of you o the internet, people are trained to find people who do not want to be found ad I feel it would be impossible to just vanish from the world unseen or completely. And with the novels we have read so far it was hard even for Chris or Gatsby to completely erase their old life and create a new identity. For their past kept creeping up on them and eventually became known in the end. I feel you can try to escape being yourself or the world around but at some point it will catch up to you.
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