How Is Chris Mccandless Selfish

Throughout his adolescent to young adult years it was very clear that Chris had an attachment to the wild. In chapter 11, as Walt reminisces about Chris and their family camp trips he reflects, “‘Chris loved those trips, the longer the better . . .’”(108). Even at a very young age, Chris had a fascination about living within

Chris McCandless was possessed by a nomadic existence and was trying to share his principle of life to his friend by telling that the truth about life was to explore the nature. Chris McCandless's last letter to Wayne revealed his true passion of nature. "This is the last you shall hear from me...I now walk into the wild"(pg 69). Some people concluded that it was Chris McCandless's suicide letter. However, in my opinion, Chris McCandless was just a victim of his own ego, pride and confidence that made him to neglect basic precautions that keep one person alive. He was controlled by his own delusions and that made him eager to test himself into strenuousness which proved fatal to him.

Chris made an “indelible impression” on most of the people he met “during the course of his [wild adventure]” and his death affected them greatly (Krakauer 48). One

Chris Mccandless’s motivation was for staying in the woods was for the excitement and rush. Chris is known for many of his specific traits as a person. His stubborn nature or arrogant personality but, one of his very apparent attributes were his self-reliance and his love for nature. He found nature to be an unknown. An unknown that he would turn into a familiar territory. According to Chris, “Tramping is too easy with all of this money. When I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.” (Into The Wild 33). Christopher enjoyed the wild because you had to take risks and you always had an adventure every day. Christopher Mccandless stayed in the woods for the excitement and the daily adventure of the woods

In the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; people think that Chris McCandless is crazy, but I think he’s just searching for himself before he can live his own life. Callarman stated that “ He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness.” Long, C. (n.d.). I disagree with this because he’s not ignorant. He also mentioned that he doesn’t want to admire him for his courage nor his noble ideas, but people should be he took a risk to try and find his own person.

First things first, Chris Mccandless followed his dream to escape society and live in nature. Once he got out of society and was on the road he delighted, "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well—relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy” (Krakauer, 55). Chris had the capability of escaping the society where he could go off on a journey to find himself. Chris is one of the few people out there that has the mindset of doing whatever it is to achieve his dream. Not many people in this world are able to do that especially if it is going out into the wild to fulfill your dream, maybe they will swim 50 miles in an ocean

This forced him to hunt animals and gather berries and other edible plants for him to eat. In another article, by Craig Medred, he addresses Chris’s mental state, “ “Personal identity is frequently disturbed in schizophrenia. Early symptoms include the feeling that one is different or altered in some as yet indefinable way,” they write. “In other cases, patients may believe that they are someone else, either known or unknown, famous or infamous.” Many people have probably written about themselves in the third person at some time, as Supertramp did in his journals. But how many of them flip back and forth between competing identities?” Medred believes that Chris had schizophrenia, which is what caused him to create the pseudonym, “Alex Supertramp.” If Chris did have schizophrenia, like Medred thinks, then it creates a reasonable explanation as to why Chris left behind a good life to travel the United States. Not only does this make sense as to why Alex is brought into play, it could have made Chris believe that Alex had the skills to survive in the wild. And make Chris think that he could survive using the small amount of materials that he had brought with him. On July 20th, Judith Kleinfeld wrote a paper talking about Chris, the paper is called “McCandless: Hero or dumb jerk?” In the paper, she addresses the novel, “Jon Krakauer's best seller "Into the Wild" immortalizes this young man, who walked into the wilderness with no

Chris McCandless came from a very different lifestyle compared to that of Perry Smith and the Clutters. He was obedient and listened to his parents for the most part. However, Krakauer viewed McCandless’s parents as too demanding and ultimately implies that part of his death was brought on by his parents. Chris’s relationship with his father was stressed at best and Krakauer equally “believe[s] we were similarly affected by the skewed relationships we had with our fathers. And I suspect we had similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul" (159). Chris was a highly opinionated and willful young man with little room for negotiation with his father sharing those same qualities. His criticism towards his parents eventually turned to outright anger, and after his father’s secret double life is revealed Chris begins viewing his father as a

If One were to read “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer One would initially believe that McCandless is insane, there are ways to prove this wrong. There are ways that One could justify that he is insane, yet there are also many ways to demonstrate that he is not insane. One thing that demonstrates how McCandless is not insane is that he cared for anyone who helped him along his long journey. McCandless frequently shows further care and compassion for those who helped him than he does his own parents. Another point that shows how McCandless is not insane is that he has a decent amount of common sense. His common sense is clear evidence that he is not completely insane. Also, one final point that gives proof of how Chris McCandless is not insane

In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer writes about Christopher McCandless, a young man who drops everything in his life to go travel throughout the states and end up in Alaska to find the truth to his questions. But did Chris find the truth he desperately desired? Some would say that McCandless did, other would say that he has wasted his time and was being ignorant and stupid. I agree with the author, Jon Krakauer, that Christopher McCandless was not a crazy lunatic, a sociopath, or an outcast because he had made lots of friends while traveling, but there were times when Chris was incompetent, even though he managed to stay alive for quite awhile. Christopher McCandless had a pretty normal childhood.

In his writings, Chris refers to himself in the third person regularly, sometimes writes vague, yet idealistic, references about his intentions, and talks about getting lost in the wild. Medred contends that McCandless wasn't searching for anything. He was instead running from something. From these observations, he concludes that McCandless suffered from mental illness and that Jon Krakauer deliberately set out to create a folk

Christopher McCandless was an adventurer no doubt. He spent the last few years of his life living purely off the land and exploring, doing what he felt called to do. However, to venture off on such an intense, dangerous, and wild journey, a person most likely has some deeply thought out reason as to why he or she is embarking on the mission. Chris himself seems to have had some reasons, besides his curiosity, as to why he explored. However, he made a decision to leave without truly thinking about just how dangerous his journey was going to be. Due to his rash actions, Chris eventually died in an abandoned bus out in the wild. Now, some folks today think that Chris was a hero for doing what interested him and for doing his own thing without worrying about the trivial things in life. However, I have reason to believe that Chris was indeed not a hero. Instead, I believe that Chris McCandless’s journey into the wild was rash, ludicrous and foolish.

This is one reason why he decided to leave home; he wanted to experience the life of not having anything to his name, this is also shown through out the book during his journeys, however this not the only reason why he left home. The ultimate reason why he left home was because of what his father had done. A cab driver name Stuckey whom helped McCandless reach Alaska elaborated that McCandless said that he found out that his father was living a bigamist life and that it went against Chris’s beliefs (159). This was ultimately one of the reasons why Chris left home and had no feelings towards his parents. This exhibits the hatred and no remorseful attitude McCandless had through out the book towards his parents, especially his father. However, this attitude towards his father and civilization is justified completely when he decided to leave home and take on the wilderness.

The Freedom Walk In the movie Into The Wild, Christopher McCandless was a son of wealthy parents. Christopher McCandless was the oldest of him, and his sister -- Carine McCandless. Christopher graduated from Emory University with a great grade point average and was an outstanding athlete. Instead of him furthering a career after graduation, he then decided to give his savings of $24,00 away to charity, and went on a journey to the Alaskan Wilderness.

Christopher “Alexander Supertramp” McCandless set out into the wild in hopes to find his inner peace. He strived to make his drive for adventures into reality. This is similar to what we know as Buddhism. Ultimately Chris gave up just about everything, such as his home, family, wealth and many of his other possessions. On his spiritual journey he traveled most by foot to arrive at his destination in the Alaskan wilderness. Chris’ motivation to find inner peace was based on his live growing up. Chris’ flawed family brought him down, which is primary the reason for him to begin his journey to spiritual freedom.