jeff sellazzo- liminality in Into The Wild

Into the Wild is a book about a man that leaves society behind to live in the wilderness. He purposefully enters himself into liminal state. This liminal state comes about because the wilderness he enters into a place that is so much different than the place he is used to in normal society. The wilderness has no social classes; he is just a person living without status. This place allows him to connect more with himself and escape the social pressures that the repress society.