Chris Mccandless Argument Essay

Kevin Gates is an inspirational speaker and pushes people to push them self. “Love the people god gave you because he will need them back someday.” Is what he is saying in this quote is don't spend so much time on not liking people and just enjoy life and don't fight with others. “Don't lose your mind trying to wait for people to come to their senses.” In this quote Kevin is saying don't tear yourself down when people don't talk to you or contact you.

There are an infinite amount of unique responses to the question “What is the meaning of life?”. However, the majority of people will agree that the true meaning of life is to find happiness and what is really important to one’s self. In Jon Krakauer’s, Into The Wild, Chris McCandless conveys this idealism through his life’s journey as he bravely defies all limitations. Chris McCandless isolates himself from society in his Alaskan Odyssey as a way to defy accepted expectations and to begin discovering the meanings of life without any corrupted influences.

Seven billion people in the world, all with unique personalities, on this earth to serve a purpose in their own life, or someone else’s. Chris McCandless was a man with unique qualities, and served to please himself and coincedently others as well. In the book “Into the Wild” the author, Jon Krakauer, explains the adventures and mishaps Chris McCandless went through in his life. Krakauer admired Chris for his personality, and his ability to be determined and hardworking at everything he did. Chris McCandless was an admirable man, with his individual view on life, and the way he could touch a person’s life and impact them forever.

“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works” (Roderick Nash). Chris McCandless, a modern transcendentalist, sent out on an adventure to find his true self in the wilderness of the North American continent. In the two years he was away, he met many individuals he called his friends and explored the extent of the American West. However, Chris was found dead in an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in the deep wilderness of Alaska in early September 1992. Chris believed he could live his life without the disruption of others. Henry David Thoreau believed that individuals can strive for themselves without government interruption. Chris McCandless, in Jon Krakauer’s documentary Into the Wild, believes that living off the land and life to its fullest without help from others compares to Henry David Thoreau’s beliefs in his writing “Civil Disobedience.”

McCandless was trapped in a society that created an illusion of his own fake happiness while he was looking to discover himself. He possessed a desperate need to find the true meaning that only he could answer. McCandless quotes “I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me

Some have said that Chris “marches to a different drummer.” I disagree and agree because when Chris visits different places on his journey, he would get help from people in that community to help him and when he was on his own he would push himself to do more because he knows he wasn’t at his fullest potential. When Chris was going to Alaska, he got helped on his way there, “On October 28, he caught a ride with a long-haul trucker into Needles, California. Overjoyed upon reaching the Colorado River,” (32). By describing Chris’s nomadic unencumbered life he didn’t do anything on his own because on his journey, he met many people that would help him get to his destination. This passage also suggests that Chris never wanted to do anything on his own, he just wanted the thrill of excitement on his adventure. Later on his journey in someplace new he met someone and became friends, “When he returned to McCandless’s camp and launched into the self-improvement pitch, though, McCandless cut him off abruptly. Look, Mr. Franz, ”(pg 51). Launched into the self-improvement pitch this to me means that he is trying to help Chris make new changes into his camp. Also when Chris cut of Mr. Franz “abruptly” he was probably thinking that Mr. Franz was trying to exploit something of his camp. Chris may have thought that Mr. Franz had a zeal obsession in making changes to his

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.

This article from CNN’s website discusses how a Florida judge recently sentenced Timothy Hurst, who is convicted on a murder charge of a young woman who was bound, gagged, and stabbed over 60 times, to death row. A jury recommended that Hurst be put on death row, but was not present during the ruling. The judge held a separate hearing, without a jury present, and imposed the death penalty on Hurst. The judge’s sentence for Hurst was ruled unconstitutional because it violated the sixth amendment, which includes the right to an impartial jury, and a recommendation from a jury is not enough for a ruling to be made. This case is now being send to Florida’s Supreme Court for further proceedings. This could impact actions towards other inmates

On December 2000, the Carr brothers committed a series of crimes which included the brutal rapping, robbery, kidnaping, and shooting of five young men and women. After a joint sentencing proceeding, a Kansas jury sentenced Reginald and Jonathan Carr to death. On appeal, the Carrs argued that their Eighth Amendment right to an individualized sentencing was violated both by the trial judge’s refusal to separate their cases and the failure to instruct the jury that” mitigating circumstances need not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt”. The Kansas Supreme Court agreed and called off the death sentences by holding that the trial judge failed to do the necessary analysis on the issue. The court also held that the jurors may have been prevented from

An experienced educator, Dwight Asberry holds a bachelor of arts in behavioral science from National University in La Jolla, California. He has also undertaken significant undergraduate studies in music education at Pasadena City College and California State University Dominguez Hills in Pasadena. Dwight Asberry earned his teaching credentials in K-12 music in 2004 and has since completed graduate training in music research at Adam State University and music technology at both Southern Oregon University and Seattle Pacific University. He is currently pursuing a master of arts in e-learning at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon.

McCandless’s ambition came from the writing of Tolstoy. He cherished the fact that Tolstoy abandoned his life of riches and privilege. When McCandless started his journey he left behind his parents and sister. He also donated the rest of his money,

Well being a seventeen year old black female from St.Louis, there isn't much that I can't remember from the infamous Mike Brown case that shook the World. I've always been someone that's really passionate about social issues like violence in inner cities, the death penalty, women's rights when it comes to abortion, and many other things. But the thing that I'm probably most passionate about, even since I was a little girl was criminal reforms and solving the problem of there being so many Black and Hispanic young men in this country's prisons. And ultimately wanting to give young black and brown men a better image, letting the world know that they are more than just a statistic. So when Mike Brown was fatally shot, back in 2014, it really hurt

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