The ability to be independent, to follow our dreams, and to walk our own paths is something many of us take for granted. For some freedom is an illusion, a vision for a better life. Chris McCandless and Frederick Douglass shared this vision. Although their lives were different in many ways, their hope was the same. They each had a dream of being free.
Chris McCandless and Frederick Douglass were two distinctive men. One a slave, the other a young, middle class, white man, they were raised in different eras but shared a passionate hatred for injustice. In Jon Krakauer's book " Into The Wil…