Chris Mccandless The Wild Argumentative Essay

Chris Langan could be the most intelligent man in America. He is the oldest of four boys who all have different fathers. Chris never knew his father, but he did know his mother’s fourth husband who was Jack Langan. Jack Langan was a failed journalist who would get jobs and lose them, moved the family around a lot, and he would drink and disappear. He would also lock the boys out of the cabinets as well as bullwhip them so they would stay in line. Chris’s family was so poor that in Outliers, he says, “To this day I haven’t met anybody who was as poor when they were kids as our family was. We didn’t have a pair of matching socks.” (91) When he grew up, he went to live on a farm. He was never published, never became a professor, never became

In the author's notes he put “Through most of the book, I have tried--and largely succeeded, I think to--to minimize my authorial presence. But let the reader be warned: I interrupt McCandless’s story with fragments of a narrative drawn from my own youth. I do so in the hope that my experiences will throw some oblique light on the enigma of Chris McCandless”(Krakauer 2). By telling us that he will add some stories of his own make us realize that Krakauer has some relation with McCandless and it make us think that this book is more believable. In the book when he tells us that Chris just died for a simple mistake and tries to relate it to himself by telling the story of how he started to realized that going into the wilderness will change his life he emphasizes“I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand. I decide, moreover, to do it alone. ” Just like McCandless, Krakauer had a lot in common with him, they both went into the wild of Alaska, which gives a lot of experience to krakauer to talk about McCandless death. In order for Krakauer to make McCandless not a crazy kid he made some other similarities between McCandless and some other people that died, with a lot of characteristics similar to McCandless and himself. Krakauer is the ideal person to criticate

One thing he said was “But I believe we were similarly affected by the skewed relationships we had with our fathers. And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul.” Him and Chris had similar experiences with their harsh fathers, they also shared the same hatred of conformity and society. Krakauer really does understand McCandless better than anyone else could because of all these things. You may not believe that Chris was courageous or intellectual, but it’s hard to deny the relationship between him and Krakauer.

Chris McCandless was a man who had everything to have a successful life. However, Chris McCandless decided to leave it all behind. Chris thought that he was going to go leave all society behind to go live in the wild. Chris thought that it was going to be very hard. Krakauer He was arrogant and ignorance toward the nature and society. In Into the Wild Chris leaves his life behind to live a life alone in the wild. In Into the Wild Krakauer’s message from Chris’s journey is for people to never get too ignorant or too confident because anything can go wrong at anytime.

“…the hypocrisy of his parents’ lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love. Eventually, Chris rebelled and when he finally did it was with characteristic immoderation” (64).

Chris is a charismatic young man, but takes extensive measures to ensure he does not become too close with anyone. By going out into the wild without so much as a letter to his parents,

Chris was brave enough to escape an undesired life. He stated in a letter to Franz “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 conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit” (Krakauer 57). Chris took the initiative to change, he was

Jon Krakauer describes Chris as unmaterialistic. At the beginning of CHris’s journey a flash flood caused his Datsun to stop running “Instead of feeling distraught over this turn of events, moreover, McCandless was exhilarated; he saw the flash flood as an opportunity to shed unnecessary baggage.” (Krakauer, 29). Mos people value their possessions and think that the more items they have the better off they will be.Chris saw materials as “unnecessary baggage”. He thought the objects were a crutch instead of an aid. Alex got a ride from Gallien to what will be Alex’s final destination. Alex offered hit watch and money to Gallien and said “I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.”(Krakauer, 7). Chris offers the last of his materials that would have values to others. He does this because all he want is to be apart from society and live within nature.

Chris is shown first abandoning his yellow Datsun, only carrying what was on his back. Furthermore, he described his more exciting experiences without money, and how pictures are unnecessary; it is the experiences and joy that matter. Also, the malnutrition only made Chris’s spirits soar, and he told Franz about how society damages the human spirit. Near the end of his journey, it is soon known that true happiness is true exclusively when it is shared with others. Through Chris’s actions, he was not like the average person. Through his journey, it is shown that enjoyment is from spiritual needs. Materialism in society created people to require physical comfort so that they can be like others. This makes the spirit in people extinguish, leading to depression and anxiety. Self-actualization is not acquired through external means, but it is from within the spirit. People spend too much time overdosing on materialism that they never take the time to do anything they love. In order for people to make an impact on others, first one must release themselves of unnecessary

2. Carine remembers one of her earliest memories of Chris from the childhood that they shared together. Chris seemed to have a knack for always knowing what to sell, how to make the pitch, and he was astonishingly successful at it. Chris’s door-to-door vegetable business was only the beginning. At the age of twelve, he started a neighborhood copy business called Chris’s Fast Copies, where he charged customers two cents less than the local store charged, and even offered free pickup and delivery. In high school, Chris was a salesman for a local building contractor, and in a matter of months, he had saved seven thousand dollars; enough to buy himself a used yellow Datsun.

Chris grew up in poverty. Never knowing his father, Chris was raised by his mother, Bettye Jean Triplett (Gardner) although at times he was placed in foster homes when poverty became too much for her. Chris joined the Navy after high school. When he was discharged from the Navy, he moved to San Francisco, California. He worked as a salesman, selling bone density screening kits. These kits were costly and not much more effective than regular x-ray machines. He had a hard time selling these machines, in 1981 as a new father to son Christopher Jr., he found it close to impossible to make ends meet. His son's mother decided to leave them because of the money issues and she moved to New York. Chris was not giving up his son, he had always said if he had a child, that child would know who his father was and Chris decided then, that he was raising Christopher no matter what. With bills rolling in and not enough money coming in Chris lost his place to live and went to live with his son in a motel. Chris met a man on the street who was driving a Ferrari. Chris was so inspired by this man. He went up to him and asked him what he does for a living, the man answered that he was a stockbroker. Chris decided he needed to get into this type of business. He applied for an intern job at Dean Witter Reynolds and worked super hard at it. But because he wasn't getting a salary, he then lost his motel

Once again his opportunity diminished because the University wouldn’t cut him any slack when he asked for later start times due to a broken car he couldn’t repair. This unfortunate story of Chris is important because he never had the “practical intelligence” that allows you to “know what to say to whom, knowing when to say

Chris Garner risked everything because he trusted that his perseverance and determination would make him successful. Chris, with no money, took an unpaid internship to learn the job of a broker. At the end of this program, there was no guarantee for a job. Taking an unpaid internship gave Chris hard times. His wife left him and he became homeless. Chris had to fight to make sure he kept his son. With this happening, Chris never complained or let anyone at his work know about his hardships. Chris used these hardships to drive him to become successful. Chris dedicated himself to work harder than anyone else. At work, Chris would not even drink water, so it would save him time from going to the bathroom. On the weekends, Chris sold the remaining

education. His ideas are deeply shaped by the contexts he was placed in and had it not been for his parents and the money they provide he could not have afforded the opportunity to obtain a secondary education. His time at college is what shaped his ideas and formulated the questioning of his identity, and is a portion of what pushed him to pursue the life of adventure. Chris felt like he had not developed his identity, and although he attended college, which is thought to be one of the biggest moratorium, he felt like he had to extend this process of identity moratorium in order to achieve identity achievement. As an affluent white male, Chris is allowed to explore his identity for as long as he wants and does not get as much pressure from

Although Mac Donald can focus exactly on the potential customers, they lose a lot of walk-in customers who waste much money for their hamburgers. The fast food meal especially hamburger should focus on the friendship and the co-workers. The advertisement with the awesome hamburger will connect friends and co-workers better than anything. They can talk about the school, the beauty, and the work. At this time, a group about 3-4 people will pay more than one lonely man who the advertisement wants to focus