Naomi Roberts brings up several good points within her post, including Katz’s motivation based on his unfortunate past. However, I disagree with the point she brought up towards the end regarding Katz trying to break his addiction. I believe it is quite clear that Katz never had an inclination to give up his food, purposely bringing a huge number of snickers along with them expressly so that he does not have to go without food. Even if he brought the snickers along entirely for his sugar-dependent condition, this does not explain why he chose to eat the rest of Bryson’s pie at the end of chapter five. Katz had clearly already had enough; the pie was just an example of his seemingly endless gluttony.
Kaila Brown brought up a very good point about Katz’s friendship with Bryson as being one of the things, which motivates him along his hike upon the Appalachian Trail. The importance of their friendship is clearly shown in chapter four in which we learn of how the two men are looking out for each other, Bryson repeatedly trudges back to check on Katz, and Katz picks up anything that Bryson happened to lose or misplace. It is this companionship which keeps not only Katz but both men going.
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