“Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency, and this was especially true in Chris’s case. More even than most teens, he tended to see things in black and white. He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code…
…the boy could not pardon the mistakes his father had made as a young man, and he was even less willing to pardon the attempt at concealment.”
‘Into the Wild’
– Jon Krakauer
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