Analysis Of Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

In the summer of 1992 Christopher McCandless was found by a group of hikers dead on Stampede trail in Fairbanks 142. After college Chris had left society donating his life savings to charity, burning the remainder of his money, left all his belongings in his 1982 Datsun B210, and presented himself as Alex. This was the beginning of Chris’s journey into the wild. He has met a lot of people along the way and they all were devastated to hear that Chris had died in Alaska from starvation. Chris was a well liked person by the people that he spoke to. A troubled childhood fueled his fire and gave him every reason to dislike his parents for what they had done to his only sister and himself as children. In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he uses ethos and logos in order to compare and contrast others experiences to Chris McCandless so that

Jon Krakauer wrote “Into the Wild” to share Chris McCandless’ story. In the book, Krakauer presents Chris’ journey and every detail that Chris wrote in his journal, as well as every person he encountered with throughout the journey. Krakauer traced back every step Chris took to show the world how Chris’ journey went. Although many would believe that Chris’ went on this journey as an adventure, I strongly believe that Chris McCandless was truly trying to run away from the problems he was facing at home.

Coming from a high-class family nobody expected McCandless to go somewhere where he might not have ever come back. When McCandless left, he cut complete contact with his family to get away from everything and everyone. It was understandable when trying to escape, but he could’ve

Want to walk Into the Wild? Well, Chris McCandless did, young smart boy, just out of college could get any job he wants. Instead he decides to throw all that away to take an adventure to the Alaskan wilderness. Throughout Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer characterizes Chris McCandless as unafraid and unprepared.

In the end, Chris McCandless was an intelligent person with strong passions. His lack of communication with his family, stubborn mindset, and negligence verified that he was arrogant and mindless. Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, included plenty of moments from Chris McCandless’s life that clearly demonstrated his poor actions on his journey. These moments reflected the mindset that McCandless had, and gave evident proof of his stupidity. Jon Krakauer documented McCandless’s story for readers to become aware that life is short.

The desire to be at one with nature sometimes becomes apparent within some of us. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer highlights the fact that Chris McCandless is a reckless fool and a narcissist due to his carelessness, ignorance, and incompetence.

The wilderness is a place full of adventure and mystery. It is a place to feel free and experience new things. Chris McCandless loved all of those things. Chris McCandless (or Alexander Supertramp) is the main character in the novel “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer. Krakauer wrote about Chris’ life in the wild. He talks about Chris’ hatred of authority, his relationship with his family, and his journey before going into the wild. Krakauer was inspired with McCandless’s story and believed that he was a smart man who followed his dream and lived a life not many people would be able to handle. I agree with Krakauer's statement about Chris McCandless being a leader and not a follower, he lived the life he wanted and didn’t care what others thought about him.

McCandless, when faced with that choice, joined the group of people who chose the path of challenge over the path of convention. “McCandless was hardly unique; there’s quite a few of these guys hanging around the state, so much alike that they’re almost a collective cliché” (71). Some believed that McCandless was like the other guys hanging around, but the people who got a good understanding of McCandless will say he is unique. He went to Alaska for different reasons than the guys hanging around the state, he had something to prove and find for himself. What makes McCandless different is that he was a hero, he went out to Alaska unprepared with nothing and wouldn’t take people’s help because he didn’t want to rely on anyone but himself. He wanted to create his own life and make his own

He said he would only be gone for a little while, but it was apparent he knew he might not come back. This was very contradictory to the behavior we had seen in him before. He became attached to Borah and Wayne like they were family and it was hard for him to leave not knowing what the future had in store. For all the time he spent in the wilderness being strong this showed his soft side. This was seen later as we learned more about Carine, his little sister.

McCandless was determined to runaway from all material things. He drove off to the west leaving his car, belongings, and his identity. Krakauer writes “He could simply abandon the Datsun and resume his odyssey n foot and that's what he decided to do”(29).He did not underestimate himself very often, if he had one objective to achieve he had to accomplish

When he left his family and friends behind without informing them as to where he would be, they later found out that their beloved one had passed. When Chris left, his mother suffered terrible pain by the thought that she heard “… ‘Chris calling me,’ she insists, ears rolling down her cheeks…He was begging, ‘Mom! Help Me!’ But I couldn’t help him because I didn’t know where he was (Krakauer 126).” In this tragic portray of events, his parents suffered terribly because he was not considerate enough to inform them of his whereabouts and intentions. Since his mother, a strong woman who dealt with awful dealing with Chris’s father, he could have at least enlightened her with his well-being with a letter to her and his whereabouts. Also, when he abandoned his family, he abandoned little sister, he left her hurt even after “Ten months after Chris’s death, Carine still grieves deeply for her brother. ‘I can’t seem to get through a day without crying…’ (Krakauer 129).” Carine was the person McCandless was closest to in his family. When he vacated her, and left her clueless as he did everybody else, he left the person who loves him most behind in the dark. McCandless left the people who cares for him behind, hurt and filled with sorrow because he wanted to fill his own selfish

As a result of having to fend for himself, McCandless had a very hard time allowing other people to help him, even when he needed it. Whether a person was advising him to bring more food to Alaska or telling him to reconsider his date of departure, Chris hardly ever listened to anyone. While Chris was traveling to Alaska, he stayed in cities for a maximum of a few days because he didn’t like to rely on anything. However, when Chris finally accepted a job offer from a peer, Wayne Westerberg, he “quickly became enamored of Carthage [the town where his job was located]… That fall he developed a lasting bond with both the town and Wayne Westerberg” (18-19).

First, McCandless was bright and yet he made some bad decisions. The novel states, “What nobody knew-was that he would shortly donate all the money in his college fund to OXFAM America, a charity dedicated to fighting hunger.” Pg. 20. It’s ironic that Chris died from starvation after giving away all his money to a hunger charity.

“In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson Mcandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.” Into The Wild is a book about a young man who travels across some of the most unforgiving terrain to find his place in life. He travels through the tough Alaskan landscape running from Christopher Johnson Mcandless, and embracing the new life that is slowly coming to him. As Chris runs away from his family, and travels along vast areas of terrain, he makes a

In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explores the human fascination with the purpose of life and nature. Krakauer documents the life and death of Chris McCandless, a young man that embarked on an Odyssey in the Alaskan wilderness. Like many people, McCandless believed that he could give his life meaning by pursuing a relationship with nature. He also believed that rejecting human relationships, abandoning his materialistic ways, and purchasing a book about wildlife would strengthen his relationship with nature. However, after spending several months enduring the extreme conditions of the Alaskan wilderness, McCandless’ beliefs begin to work against him. He then accepts that he needs humans, cannot escape materialism, and can