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

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.

Put yourself in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, with only oversized boots, the clothes on his back, and a 10 pound bag or rice. Chris McCandless donated all of his money, and burned the remaining few dollars in his wallet. He basically shut himself out. He was determined to live out his life how he wanted to. But his way. Nothing would stop him. Nothing would ruin his plans. And he would not chest himself. He had one way to do it and one way only. Chris was a very stubborn man, but very amusing. The reason I believe that he went off into the Alaskan wilderness is to relieve his live. Although many may argue that McCandless’s mental illness served as a primary reason for his voyage into the wilderness, there is more evidence showing that

In the book, Into The Wild, Chris McCandless, is a person who seeks happiness in nature but this soon leads to his fall. In Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer characterizes Christopher McCandless as strong willed and rebellious. Throughout the book we see how strong willed Chris truly is. ¨ If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away¨ pg 7. This quote shows how he goes by what he says and he won't change his mind. ¨he changed his name and donated his twenty-four thousand dollars to charity¨ pg 45. This quote really goes to show how much he didn’t care what people thought of him and how he wasn’t in it for just the money. If not for his strong willed nature, Chris never would have gone out to Alaska and pushed himself to the end. As well

In Into the wild, Chris leaves his home, and hitchhikes across the country to Alaska with very little supplies. While on his remarkable journey to

Although Christopher McCandless was admirable for his inspiration, his journey was profoundly selfish. Along the way of this Alaskan Odyssey, McCandless met new people to collect into his contemporary family. McCandless has been an inspiration to many people, but has also crumbled the hearts of the ones that loved him. Maybe he was determined to pursue a life of independence; maybe he was determined to escape his shameful family. Christopher McCandless was a brave and courageous man, but does that make him right? Given the information in the book, it’s a difficult opinion to engender.

He was so focused on being in the wild away from all civilization that he put himself in extensive danger. Krakauer wrote, “In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map” (Krakauer 174). By throwing away his map, he essentially threw away all connection to humanity. If he had chosen to keep the map he could have walked out of the wild, healthy and ready to begin his life as an adult. He loved the wilderness so much that he wanted to nothing to stand in the way of it. Moreover, the perfection of nature blinded his unmatured personality to throwing away the map. The forcefulness of his love of independency and nature drove him to make idiotic decisions that cost him his

The story of a young man’s journey, told through interviews and acquired letters and journal entries, is interpreted and analyzed by Jon Krakauer in his novel Into the Wild. Chris McCandless, the combatant of his own story, embarks on an adventure around America after graduating from Emory University. When McCandless finds himself in the Alaskan wilderness with only a rifle, ten pounds of rice, a camera, and a few extra books and journals, he dies of starvation after a mere four months. In the novel, Krakauer successfully uses concrete diction to create complex sentences, apostrophes, and anecdotes to analyze the few interactions McCandless has leading up to his death and to drive the reader to question the role of an individual in society and if Chris McCandless deserves his eventual death.

" Into The Wild", created by Jon Krakauer talked about how Chris McCandless was rash, " but wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast." Chris wasn't none of those; he was something else. It was hard to detect what Chris really was, but truthfully he was precisley better than that. McCandless was honeslty a intelligent human being; graduated from Emory University in Atlanta with a 3.72 grade-point average. He distinguished himself to have a history and anthropolgy major.

Chris McCandless believed that he was better off without human companionship and he felt claustrophobic in the presence of others. At the relatively early stages of his journey, McCandless took a canoe into Mexico down the river and eventually through the Gulf of California. By the end of his trek into Mexico when he decided to turn around, he had “not seen or talked to another soul in thirty-six days” (26). After having to talk with people for so long, McCandless finally got the chance to abandon all human interaction for over an entire month. Krakauer is hoping to reveal McCandless’s strong intent to isolate himself from the outside world to explore nature on his own. Furthermore, even in the presence of people McCandless still tried to isolate

Thanks to Krakauer’s biography, one can imagine McCandless’s life as he grew up. McCandless’s family was wealthy, his father worked for NASA and eventually left to form his own business with Billie, Chris’s mother. The two would argue over business matters often enough that Carine, his sister, became his support. Even though his parents fought, he did have a fairly decent home life. Chris even went to Emory and graduated, he was a knowledgeable human being. In chapter eight of Into the Wild, Krakauer informs readers of peoples’ opinions of Chris after his death was broadcasted on the news, “many people concluded that the boy must be mentally disturbed” (Krakauer p.70). Chris was not a fool when considering mental stability, but he was not a hero either. A hero is typically someone that has

Each year, thousands of people travel to numerous places, planning to change their way of life. These travelers display change in their lifestyles. Several individuals change their names to hide their true identity, and become minimalists. Others leave their society to deviate away from their true lives. Chris McCandless, in John Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, followed a similar pattern. McCandless was known to travel to “go off the grid”. He would often travel in the summer and return home before leaving to attend Emory University in the fall. McCandless traveled to Alaska, extremely unprepared and never returned. Several have questioned if McCandless went into the wild to go “off the grid”, to prove to himself and others that he

His final journey was to Alaska, where he took more risks than ever before, eventually resulting in his passing. Chris McCandless was reckless and foolish in his endeavors; however, he did have attributes that were admirable. Chris McCandless had always had an edgy side, constantly pushing the limits. He was good at most everything he did and failure was not a common experience throughout his life. His father states “‘[h]e didn’t think the odds applied to him’”

Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, he sought an honest life with ultimate freedom in the wild. Chris lived his life with meaning and sought true honesty and freedom in the wilderness. Chris McCandless was not crazy, he was a very sensitive boy who didn’t fit well into capitalist society, he thought of himself as a cosmopolitan.

Into The Wild, a novel by Jon Krakauer, is a tale of a young man who trekked across country, mentally guided by the authors of stories of those who found themselves and everything they were looking for out in the wilderness. Many think of this young man, Chris McCandless- a hitchhiker, avid reader, son and brother- as crazy or arrogant. Others think of him as noble and courageous. I do not believe that after all he learned and all the places he travelled he can be squished into one labeled box. Chris McCandless is a multifaceted human-being and though he followed his passions, something many people don’t do, he was also reckless and impulsive.

In the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, we get an idea of who Chris McCandless really was internally along with how he expressed himself for the world to see. The author admits that McCandless was both rash and an over thinker, but he insists "he wasn't a nutcase or a sociopath…"(85). Chris McCandless, the way I see it, was extremely brave and ambitious. In some cases, he was unfortunately overconfident, which later led to his death. McCandless was a modern transcendentalist in a time where it was not socially acceptable.