Annotated Bibliography

[1] Into The Wild. Dir. Sean Penn. Perf. Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt,
Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook.
Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007. DVD.
Director Sean Penn, two time academy award winner, films a movie about a young man named
Chris McCandless played by Emile Hirsch. In this film Chris plays a young man who is
searching to find true happiness by ditching all materialistic items and heading off into the wild.
This source was used to as a basis for my research on how parents affect their children. Chris
was a heavily protected child with not much freedom and felt as if he was trapped by society.
This source was used as a primary source in my essay. All of my research was completed in
order to determine what may have possessed Chris McCandless to want to abandon his family
and set off on this crazy adventure.
Reflection:
Into the Wild is a film about Chris McCandless, an adventurer on a mission to break free from
societal bounds. I used this source in order to determine the effects that Chriss parents may
have had on him and his decision making process.
[2] Baumrind, Diana. Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior. Child
Development 37.4 (1966): 887907. Web...
Diana Baumrind is a developmental and clinical phycologists that wrote Effects of Authoritative
Parental Control on Child Behavior while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. This
informative article communicates to its readers how a childs authority figure or parents will
affect the development of a child.
This source was used as secondary source: When writing my research paper I used this article
in order to refer back to the early stages of a childs life.
Reflection:
This article focuses on three different types of parenting. These types of parenting methods are
as follows: Permissive, Authoritarian, and Authoritative. By examining the different types of
parenting I was able to determine what type of parents Chriss were and I am able to determine
why Chris may have felt the way he did. The reason this articles is affective is because it is
backed with scientific studies supporting the authors statements. Although the information
presented in this article is generalized among everyone, it gives specific examples on why the
parental methods may affect the child. The authors tone in this passage is used to inform its
audience. Informative information is presented clearly and accurately in an academic style of
writing. Information in this article helped me grasp a better understand and also helped change
my point of view on the situation. Although it did not completely change it, the article did allow
me to look at the opposing point of view and compare the sides.

[3] Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. New York: Anchor, 1997. Print.
Jon Krakauer wrote the book Into the Wild, the book that the movie written by Sean Penn was
based off of. The similar connections to the movie are a good way to compare and contrast the
differences between the two. This makes it an even better chance of determining the effects
done to Chris. However, the book may have been more of an accurate comparison to Chriss
life, because movies may be modified to add events to make the movie more interesting.
This book was used as a book source to my research: It is important to reflect on the book
because the book may be more easily understood than the movie.
Reflection:
This book focuses on the life and adventure of Chris McCandless. In the book I focused on the
aspects of his life that may have caused his impulsive decision to go on an adventure into the
wilderness. The aspects in this book include the participation of his parents, the role of
materialistic items of society as well as the need of Chris to find happiness. This book is written
for entertainment purposes, but still tells us, with accuracy, about Chriss life. In the book, Jon
Krakauer tells the story of how he thinks Chriss adventure went based on findings of notes
written by Chris himself. Since the book was not written directly by Chris, we cannot assume
that the events are completely accurate. Into the wild helped give me an understanding as to
what was going on in the mind of Chris McCandless, which in terms helps me with my research
on parental control.
In the book the same story plot is portrayed as the movie. The character in the book is still Chris
McCandless and he still goes into the wild. However, the book goes into more detail that one
may not have caught while watching the movie, or may not have been in the movie. Chriss
parents in the book are the same strict parents and allows another point of view on them
[4] "What's Wrong with Strict Parenting?" Strict Parenting Actually Creates Behavior
Problems in Children. Here's Why. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.
In the article Whats wrong with strict parenting the most helpful information for my paper was
received. This website laid out point by point on why restricting kids would be harmful to their
future.
This article was used as a secondary source: the source outlines why and what the effect of
strict parenting has on child development.
Reflection:
This article focuses on five main topics. These topics of how strict parents effect children
include: kids becoming bullies, rebellious, following any sort of leader, lead to a sense of selfworthlessness and may lead to depression of the child or parent. The information in the article is
backed by a good amount of research; therefore, I found the information to be reliable. The
generalized information in the passage is used as a tool to find out ways parents can become
the best parents they can be without hurting their childs mental state in the future. The passage
is written with an informative tone for parents who may be struggling with their childs behavioral

issues. In my paper I used this article very heavily in my research in order to determine the
effects Chris McCandlesss parent may have had on his future.
[5] Azar, Beth. "How Do Parents Matter? Let Us Count the Ways." American Psychology
Association. 1 July 2000. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
Beth Azar is a social psychologist with more than twenty years of experience. As a graduate of
New York University, Beth Azar has written many articles on hum behavior due to the
psychological effect of the brain. I used in my research one of her articles called How do
parents Matter? in this article she counters another article that describes how parents dont
matter.
This Article was used as a secondary source: Beth Azar uses psychological aspects of the brain
in order to compare her ideals on Chriss behavior.
Reflection:
This article focuses on two main topics. These topics include explaining why parents matter to a
childs future as well as bi-directional influences. Bi-directional influence is the idea that the
effects of parents are equal to the genetic traits and the childs personality. At the end of the
article it is determined that the effects on childhood behavior cannot be determined with
complete accuracy due to the necessity of correlation with time.