Chris Mccandless Into The Wild

His mother, Billie, wept, “” I just don’t understand why he had to take those kind of chances”” (132, Krakauer) and his father agonized “” How is it, … that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?”” (104, Krakauer). It was extremely selfish to leave his parents thinking he would be back to see them again, but he never did. Besides his family, he also left many people along the road. “He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He’d successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerburg at arm’s length. And now he’s slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz’s life as well. Painlessly, that is, from McCandless’s perspective…” (55, Krakauer). After being thrown in jail for hopping freight trains McCandless called Ronald Franz to pick him up, which only deepened his affection for the young man. The most selfish thing of all, was the entire reason for his trip. He went for the same reason the author of Into the Wild went as he says, “When I decided to go to Alaska that April, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing” (155, Krakauer). McCandless went on a multiple year road trip through the Western and into the North to find himself but Death got to him

Chris McCandless was a very unique individual. In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he tries his best to make sense of McCandless’ journey to the Alaskan wilderness. However, he never really figured out what McCandless’ purpose of the trip was. Looking at McCandless’ life throughout the book, I believe that Chris McCandless went on his journey to find happiness within his own life and did achieve it in the end.

Chris was a very stubborn individual and never wanted to compromise his morals to please others. Chris never listened to suggestions or advisement of others as he was on his journey. His incompetence and inability to take other people’s advisement into account was ultimately was caused his death. Gallien tried to warn McCandless of the rough conditions by telling him “the hunting wasn’t easy where he was going, that he could go days without killing any game” (Krakauer 5). Gallien is just one example of someone who tried to help McCandless realize that living alone in Alaska would be very gueling, but McCandless assumed that if he could survive for a month in the Gulf of California, he would also be able to thrive in Alaska. Of course Chris ignored Galliens advice and did things his own way because he’s stubborn. One of Chris’ flaws was that he had very strong opinions that were so different from the rest of society and was fiercely independent. Chris’ beliefs and points of view led to him going into the wild without anyone aware of his whereabouts. Chris never wanted help from anyone and he expressed this when he said, “I won’t run into anything I can’t deal with on my own”(Krakauer 6). Chris also “hadn’t spoken to his family in nearly two years”(Krakauer 6). Both of these quotes emphasize the fact that he felt the need to be utterly alone. If Chris had told someone his real name and his desired destination then he wouldn’t have died alone in Alaska. Chris would’ve been better off if he had listened to the advice he was given and if he had told people about his whereabouts.

The story of Chris McCandless has become a pop culture phenomenon. Many are fascinated by his desire to abandon his family and society and “walk into the wild” (Krakauer 69). Newscasts, magazine articles, movies, and books have tried to define what motivated him to give up everything for his Alaskan odyssey; however, the answers died with McCandless. People make assumptions about him without knowing his entire story. McCandless chose to do the unconventional, making people think he was either foolish or brave and determined, but ultimately he was selfish for doing what he did.

Into the Wild is a novel about Chris McCandless who left everything, and everyone he knew after college and essentially disappeared into the wild. A commonly asked question at the end of Into The wild is why did Chris McCandless do this, why did he abandon his college education and everyone he knew. Many have tried to figure out just this question but with the help of the memoir Walden, a book that heavily inspired McCandless, it is easy to see why McCandless left his conventional life. These reasons are that He wanted to be more like nature, to go with the flow and not let every little thing throw him off, Chris took this to the extreme and literally joined nature to get a better understand of it. He also wanted to live a simpler life, Chris again took this to the extreme by leaving everything that was extra or unneeded in his life. The final reason is that he wanted to see what reality and real life must offer, he didn’t want to see and live with the reality that other people imposed on things.

After reading the book "Into the wild" it was pretty amazing and the way Mcacandless got to live with life the way you wanted and got to explore different things was amazing to read. McCandless is a very outgoing, smart, funny kid who loves to explore and travel on his own and didn't depend on anyone. He lived who's life with freedom.

Award winning journalist and author, Jon Krakauer, in his book, Into the Wild, analyzes the life of Chris McCandless as well as the events that ensued his death. Krakauer’s purpose is to inform the reader about how and why Chris McCandless decided to embark on a journey into the wilderness of Alaska. He adopts an empathetic tone in order to impart to his readers that Chris McCandless was a very misunderstood young adult.

Into the Wild, a book by Jon Krakauer and a film by Sean Penn,features the journey of christopher McCandless,the son of wealthy parents who graduated from Emory University as a top student athlete.However, instead of embarking on a prestigious and profitable career, he chooses to give his savings to charity,rid himself of his possessions, and set out on a journey to the alaskan. He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance.I do not admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas.He had no business going into the alaska with him romantic silliness.I feel that what he had did was ignorance and not right in my opinion.If he was so smart with a college diploma then he should have been smart enough to realize that he didn't have to go to that extremeness of going into alaska.

They state he hiked into the woods with only a bag half filled with a 10 pound bag of rice, a .22 caliber rifle, some ammunition, and paperback books. This shows that McCandless was very determined to live off the land. He had to hunt, and scavenge for any food and water that he wanted. He spend every day looking for different berries, and hunting. He also kept a daily journal of his daily challenges. On his way home after proving himself, he went to go cross the river, which was frozen when he first started his adventure, but now it was a fast stream. But that didn't necessarily stop him. He went back and tried to find another way around. He began feeling sick, very weak. His journal entries mentioned danger, and scared.

The first reason why McCandless left into the woods was because of the family issues with his parents. In the book McCandless states “I'm going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live¨(Krakauer 64). He wanted to do this because he parents were trying to control him and his decision to stay or go. But McCandless had enough of them and was tired of them trying to control his whole life. I understand where McCandless was coming from because I feel the same way he did right before he left.

I believe McCandless was able to find the safe place he was looking for to get away from the abuse. In addition, McCandless was able to discover himself and who he truly was and what nature really had in store for the world. Although he found what he was looking for, he underestimated Alaska’s environment and might have died due to the molding. I can say that McCandless found what he was looking for because he stated “I have had a happy life and thank the lord.” (Krakauer 199).

Chris McCandless wanted to go on a journey to see if he could survive in the Alaska’s wild, but was it worth it? In the book Into the Wild, while he was talking to Ron Frantz he said, “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. the joy of life come from our encounters with new experiences, and hence here is no greater joy than to have endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter skelter style of life that will at first appear to you crazy. But once you become

Into the wild is a movie about an ideological person, Chris McCandless. He resents the world of materialism

Chris McCandless was a young man from a wealthy family , he had a serious idea about finding inner happiness. To do so he believed he had to hitchhike across the country with nothing but the clothes on his back, he burned his money, ditched his car, and abandoned his parents. The question we ask now after reviewing the life of McCandless’s was this a selfish move by Chris? Yes, Chris was selfish and ignorant when he left on a trek across the country including Alaska. The definition of selfish is lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure, Chris abandoned his family, and left them in a worse state than they were before, so he could try and find a new meaning for his life which in turn resulted in his death. When Chris’s name is brought up often so is John muir, a famous explorer and nicknamed “the father of National Parks”. Chris did nothing of the sorts, he left an inconsistent diary and a few pictures, the comparison of the two is unfair towards Muir. Although Chris did have a good relationship with his parents he took a very extreme step in trying to “fix” the issue.

Chris McCandless wanted to go into the wilderness and experience a new environment. He left everything behind; his family, his possessions, and his home. All the possessions he has are the items on his person. Leaving all this to adventure out into the Alaskan wilderness. His ill-equipped person, and little knowledge over the land, he wants to try to spend a few months out in the middle of nowhere, with no-one around. P6