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Chris Mccandless Argumentative Essay

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When you see yourself living out your dream, the thought of what you're most passionate about pulls you in. Passions in one's life change based on what had affected that person. Dreams are defined to change. However, the benefits of these thoughts is that they belong to you and only you. Not one person's opinions matter but your own. Chris McCandless simply was living out his own ideal life, the way he wanted; not to the idea of his parents, his friends or of society. McCandless wanted to escape society and civilization which he felt was tying him down, while also trying to discover himself. McCandless is not by any means a wacko. He was simply defying society and its ideal expectation it holds upon us as a whole.
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 …show more content…

As human beings, we are afraid to talk to someone in fear of rejection, or to ask for help because someone will look at us like we're crazy. He may not be a hero to some, but he was a hero for himself. He is not a hero in my context and he will never be a hero in your factors because each of us walks down our own path to self discovery. McCandless's path to self discovery was struggling with nature, smelling it, feeling it, being it, dying as a part of it. My path I know is different than his and I believe that other people's paths are different from mine. The real challenge is stopping and using all your senses you possess along with intuition and finding out what is right for you. The gift McCandless gave to those who are struggling to "find themselves" is that there is a chance for people to do what they feel is right for

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