Characters: Chris McCandless: The protagonists of the film. Despite of his outstanding record and having some savings, he declines to follow a “normal path” and is determined to look for a real experience during his lifetime. He is a round character since the whole action and plot is focused on the way he lives and understand people behavior, system and life in modern society. Billie and Walt McCandless: Christopher’s parents. Although they do not participate actively in the plot, their relevance is fundamental for the development of Christopher’s personal growth. The parents-son relation is quite tricky due to the stubborn and strict beliefs of his parents and because of the pre-established plans they already had for his son. They are …show more content…
She is his closest connection to world, though they are quite different. Whereas Christopher is a rebel-like person, Carine is the stereotypical American adolescent. She is tender, intimately tied to his brother and works as narrator in the film adaptation of the …show more content…
They become closest while traveling around the West of the Country. He encourages the passion lost in her relationship with her couple. Wayne Westerberg: he is a factory owner that gives a job to Christopher after picking him up while hitch-hiking. They become friends but, as Christopher is a free spirit, leaves this job after having earned enough money to keep moving towards his goal. Ronald Franz: a very tender relationship grows in this particular case. This elderly man lives alone as his son and wife passed away. Due to this fact, he become very interested and it originates a sort of father-son relation between the protagonist and him. One of the most relevant scenes in the film adaptation takes place when both decide to get to the top of a mountain, though Ronald is reticent and not confident about his aptitude to reach the top. Finally, they succeed, enjoy the landscape in the middle of nowhere and keep talking about life until the sunset. Narrator: It differs from the book to the film. The book is narrated by the author, Jon Krakauer, who keeps narrating and picking different devices such as relevant quotes, Christopher notes and newspaper
Lastly, Chris Mccandless got to fulfill his dream, live his own life, and now he even got to find his inner self, find out who he truly is. Chris was the kind of person that lived dangerously unlike most people, he was different “It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders...Danger has always held a certain allure. McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme” (Krakauer, 182). Chris’s true self-was one that was riskful and daring until he could finish the task. Furthermore, he was different from others and throughout his journey, others could see that. In the end that was the kind of person Chris Mccandless was, and this is the person he became after fulfilling his dream and living his own life. In contrast, others did
It’s the end of the school day. I finally breathe and release myself of the stress and the frustration of a normal school day. I sit on the benches outside and wait for my ride. With technology gone and no people to talk to, I just sit still. The evergreen trees gently move in some of the final gusts of the summer breeze. And as I’m looking at life’s beauty and as thoughts swim through my brain, I become frightened. Because, I have never thought of life, as a whole, so profoundly. It transforms into satisfaction. Without distractions, I sit with my thoughts and world’s alluring nature. As I relive this moment in my mind, I can’t help but think of Henry David Thoreau. How he just sometimes sat and took in everything, and absorbed everything
According to Walt McCandless, Chris caused him a tremendous amount of pain, despite having “so much compassion.” Causing parents pain is a part of growing up and becoming an adult. Getting jobs , moving out, and watching their kids make mistakes for themselves are just some ways pain is unavoidable in the growing up process.
I could do my essay about Siobhan who taught Christopher emotions through facial expressions and listened to all his problems or I could do his father Ed Boone who took care of him and protected him endless amounts of times but I don't think those characters impacted Christopher's life in a permanent way. I'm not going to say that this character did the most in Christopher's life because I favorite this character like most students would because it's their instinct to say that. I don't like this character in particular but I think that Christopher's mom impacted him the most wth her emotional issues and how optimistic she is about life. Mother is a very important character to this story and she impacts the book like she impacts Christopher
In Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book, Into the Wild, we follow how humans love the wilderness, the strain of father son relationships, and for the majority of the book a young adult named Chris McCandless. We see mostly through Chris’ eyes just how much the wilderness can entice young adults as well as how important crushing news of one’s father can change your life. McCandless was an angry pseudo adult who couldn’t handle a sizeable change in his life. He was too stuck on it being his way that he rarely could bring himself to accept help and improve his ability to actually survive. However, there was some good about McCandless. His search for himself and the truth were great intentions despite the flawed approach.
Although Chris McCandless’ controlling and toxic family environment was a major motive for his escape, his deep-seated internal battle was simply an irresistible impulse for discovery and liberty. Chris’ journey shows a new level of freedom; what true independence holds. He set out into nature alone without support of family or friends, searching for a path unlike those of most, and running from a barred cage of conventional living. Unsatisfied and somewhat angry with himself and his life of abundance in money, opportunity, and security, his preceding experiences and determined character lead him to an inevitable flee into no-mans land. Throughout the novel, Krakauer wants the reader to understand that there is more to Chris than his habit of criticising authority and defying society’s pressures. He needed more from himself, and more from life. He wasn’t an ordinary man, therefore could not live with an ordinary life. Krakauer demonstrates this by creating a complex persona for Chris that draws you in from the beginning.
Life is never easy, no matter how hard we try to short cut and escape the inevitable difficulties. After College is when life sets in, when work becomes a necessity and we all begin to find a place to settle down. People respond differently to different situations. Some of us embrace the freedom and the ability to earn money and spend money indiscriminately. Others crumple under the social pressures placed on us. Christopher McCandless is a perfect example. Settling down and raising a family, providing for that family and creating a sustainable lifestyle are important and high stress things that we all must deal with if we are to enjoy the finer things in life. Chris totally abandoned that, he gave away all of his possessions; even
Chris McCandless to me was a very intelligent but stubborn man. He didn’t care about how his family felt. All along his quest to the stampede trail Chris was kind to strangers and others but neglected the fact that his family back home worried about him. In the end Chris became at one with nature but realized that his surroundings (meaning family
Another burden Christopher’s family laid on him was a massive amount of guilt. As mentioned above, Chris felt responsible for the ‘abandonment’ of Walt’s ex-wife and her children. Carine writes, “From the time we were small children, still unaware of how children come to be, I remember Chris being consistently told through our mother’s tears that the family struggles began with his birth, when she became ‘stuck’ with our dad. Chris carried this unfounded guilt with him until the wisdom that comes with age resulted in feelings of betrayal and eventually anger. This mislaid blame was never rescinded, only ignored.”3 Carine, Chris’s youngest and only natal sister, believed that the painful and unbearable family life that they endured provided Chris with a just reason to abandon his life. She respected this part of his motivation for leaving,
What is a quest? A quest is a journey that the main character goes on even if they don't realize it at first. During this so called quest the character will find self knowledge almost every time. A quest needs five important things: a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and a real reason to go there. Some examples of a quest are “Into the Wild”, “A Worn Path”, and “To Build a Fire”.
The story is told from his point of view thus allowing one to see how he talks about Christina and Stella to his ex-wife and "She," the paramour whom he now lives with.
The movie based on a true story of Christopher McCandless. It is presented the aim of his journey, which is discovering the wild and how it is beautiful. He was a good student and he achieved a lot of academic achievements. After graduating from Emory University, he donated his money to the charity. Christopher did not want to live his parents’ life he thought his life was a lie, so he decided to leave his normal life because he was looking for freedom and a new identity. He went to Alaska to live in the wild with a few of food and few of equipment which he thought it could help him to live in the isolated life from the human. Also, he wanted to experience the wilderness life with no constraint, so he going against all the rules of the institution.
Chris McCandless despises the society he lives in. He loathes the fact that monetary items and tangible possessions are valued over things like love and joy. Chris shows a tone of disgust after his parents offer to buy him a new car for a graduation gift, “I can’t believe they’d try and buy me a car” (Krakauer 21). After spending years reading the works of Leo Tolstoy, Chris McCandless believes that life is best experienced when alone and in nature. Chris supports this transcendentalist ideology so much that he decides to try it for himself. Chris McCandless spends two years traversing the American southwest. He abandons his identity by changing his name to Alex Supertramp, by abandoning his car, and by donating all of his money to OXFAM. Christopher does all these things to try and distance
The interest shown by Chris Watters is a love that is deceptive to Edie as she is searching for a man to show her what she wants in life. “Do you have to go so soon” (Kennedy 207)? shows that he cares for her, but not on the same level she is interpreting this compassion. Alice went through a similar situation, after she had three kids she went through a divorce which shows the vulnerability of women to love and the deception that can accompany it.
She is one of the characters, who has an influence on the central consciousness' change of love.