"But I knew right away. There was no doubt. It was Chris. I went home, picked up Michele, my wife, and drove out to Maryland to tell Dad and Billie. I didn't know what I was going to say. How do you tell someone that their child is dead?"(Krakauer 102).
The Dynamics of Family.
No parent should ever have to bury their child. Though in some parts of the world it happens all too often. Chris's older brother, Sam, here has to hear first about his brother's death. He knew it was his responsibility of telling everyone else of the grim news, though that can be a great burden to bear. Sam here realizes that burden, the difficulty of telling such news to his loved ones. It can be argued that maybe Chris would have wanted it this way. His letters do hint at having doubt returning alive after the trip. So maybe not only would he die doing what he loved, but hurt his parents he hated one last time. Where Chris knew the last crushing blow would be dying in the wilderness in his own terms. Then having his parents feel regret for not taking better care of him.
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