Connections for Chapters 1-6

While reading these first few chapters I had found a handful of connections I was able to make from the book to either my life or the 'real' life as we know it. Here's two of them I came up with:

1) Alex tries to get back into the United States after going on vacation in Mexico but he doesnt have his ID with him so he gets arrested by the Mexican government. I related this to the fact that a ton of people, Mexican or not, try to get into our country everyday, some are successful and some are not.


2) When he decides to go out into the wild he changes his name from Chris to Alex so that his parents cannot track him down and he can begin his new life as a new person. I related this to the people who change their names either to escape the bad things that they've done in the past, or to simply just get a new start at life.