Into the wild is cryptical story which mostly depends upon the perception of one who is watching it. The story follows a young student who just graduates and cant get enough of life has to offer so he decides to cut all of his fortune his education and family and goes on to discover what true happiness or life meant, he goes on and on meets random people on his way and eventually joins and stay with them for a week or two, as far as I perceived is that he wanted to explore how different people even though some dont have money or job live in their way of happiness,anyway he abandons those random people who get so attached to him just like he abandons his family and went on for the quest the question that always drives him, after he reaches his dream place Alaska he decides to pick a random bus as his shelter and the story twists so tragically that what he came out for and left everything for the happiness it turns out that he had that everytime he met someone and spent time at last he realizes that true " happiness is only real when it is shared",he finally gets that unless you have someone to share your feelings their wont be any true value to your feelings,and as obviously he realizes it too late as he is poisoned by some plant he takes for food,the realization also comes to him when he is in nausea,and at this deathbed.