Christopher Mccandless Flaws In Into The Wild

Luke Fletcher Mrs. Flores English 12 6 March 2024 The Fatal Flaws of Chris McCandless Abandoning your entire family to pursue solitude in the wilderness requires a great degree of boldness and delusion. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography about a young man named Chris McCandless, who deserted his ordinary life to embark on a mission of living frugally and immersing himself in nature. His brave efforts and unique ideals may have inspired some; however, Chris was ultimately a reckless narcissist who embodied acute stubbornness, a lack of sympathy, and an irrational hatred for society. Foremost, Chris’ stubborn mentality created critical gaps in his logic that eventually led to his death. He refused to accept advice or help from anybody, even his closest friends.

What characterizes a person? Characterization is basically what someone says and how they take action upon it in different ways. In Into the Wild, Chris McCandless is characterized throughout the story. To be more specific, he is said to be independent, bright, and careless. Chris McCandless has 3 prominent personality traits throughout the book.

No matter who or where you are, never go into the wilderness without the proper supplies. In April 1992, Christopher McCandless did one thing that would cost him his life. He set off into the wilderness of the Denali National Park declining any help and without the proper supplies, never to return back home. There are many different views about Christopher McCandless; some believe he was a hero for what he had done, and others believe he was idiot and just wanted to go die in the wilderness. Christopher McCandless was an American hiker who left his family after he graduated from Emory University.

Put yourself in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, with only oversized boots, the clothes on his back, and a 10 pound bag or rice. Chris McCandless donated all of his money, and burned the remaining few dollars in his wallet. He basically shut himself out. He was determined to live out his life how he wanted to. But his way. Nothing would stop him. Nothing would ruin his plans. And he would not chest himself. He had one way to do it and one way only. Chris was a very stubborn man, but very amusing. The reason I believe that he went off into the Alaskan wilderness is to relieve his live. Although many may argue that McCandless’s mental illness served as a primary reason for his voyage into the wilderness, there is more evidence showing that

People considered Chris’ search for happiness crazy and insane, but that is just their opinions. Other’s opinions didn’t mean anything to Chris because he did what he wanted, and no one was going to stop him, no matter how crazy his goals were. He wasn’t just searching for happiness but as Krakauer said, “McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder the the nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul”(183). Chris went into the wilderness to learn who he was and why he was that way, and in his search for his identity, he had to search for his happiness, as that is what he lives for. Chris went into the Alaskan Bush in order to live the way he wanted.

In the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the main protagonist, Christopher McCandless, decides to go off the grid and travel alone to Fairbanks, Alaska, lasting about 113 days before eventually dying of starvation. Since the novel s publishing, the reason why McCandless left civilization behind has been brainstormed by thousands of people; did Chris wish to escape from his potentially abusive family? Was he a civil disobedient who ran away to ‘buck the system’? Or perhaps he was just a nature-obsessed idiot who left civilization to live out an unobtainable fantasy? Out of the countless different theories that readers have offered, there is one theory that may be the most simple, but also the most likely: Chris McCandless was nothing more

So far Chris McCandless in the book “Into The Wild” has revealed some of his characteristics as an individual. Chris portrayed a stubborn but determined attitude. His will to conquer whatever is in his path is sadly over shadowed by his ignorance to listen to anyone. An example of this is when Chris’s father states “Chris had so much natural talent, but if you tried to coach him to polish his skill, to bring out that final ten percent, a wall went up” (Krakauer 111). Chris was very talented in sports but his refusal to gain real skill from others was his downfall. However, running was a sport that Chris excelled in despite his stubbornness. Chris was so in love with running and he was determined to do it. However, Chris’s will to win was larger

Into the Wild In Jon Krakauer’s book, “ Into the Wild” demonstrates a young man who donated all of his savings to charity to help feed the poor and abandons both his family and his car to live out in the wilderness. Some people may have believed that Chris McCandless went into the wild to escape a toxic relationship with his parents, I agree that he did not have a nice family. Christopher McCandless was tormented by family problems because he grew up with an abusive father and a mother who gave him a hard life. Not only is he believed to have suffered from an abusive family, Chris McCandless was also pronounced mentally ill.

The book ‘Into the Wild’ by Jon Krakauer is based on a true story of Christopher J McCandless, a well educated and able young man who chased after his dreams and ambitions of escaping the wealth and materialism of society for a free life in nature. Soon after graduating from Emory University, Chris gave up the balance of his education savings account to OXFAM and disappeared from society to live a life of autonomy and adventure into the Alaskan wilderness, This wild adventure ultimately led to his death. Chris didn't die due to the wilderness. He died from being unprepared and unwilling to learn about the environment he was about to walk into alone. Chris’s tragic death is exactly what wilderness journalist Mark Laurence described when he wrote, “ ...the leading cause of most deaths in the wilderness--all of these are caused by a personal error in judgment. “

For someone to have plans to survive in the harsh wilderness of the Alaskan frontier many have said that McCandless was completely un prepared as recalled in the first chapter of the book by Jim Gallien who picked up McCandless outside of Fairbanks Alaska and drove him to the stampede trail, the beginning of Chris’s journey into the wild. “He wasn’t carrying anywhere near as much food and gear as you’d be expecting a guy to be carrying for that kind of trip.” (Krakauer 4) Through the research that Krakauer completed we know that Chris was carrying only a ten-pound bag of rice and some paperback books along with other camping supplies. Jim

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.

Chris McCandless was just a victim of his own obsession. The novel "Into The Wild" written by John Krakauer revealed the life of a young bright man named Chris McCandless who turned up dead in Alaska in summer 1992. In the novel, John Krakauer approached carefully McCandless's life without putting too much authorial judgment to the readers. Although Chris McCandless remained an elusive figure throughout the novel, I can see Chris McCandless as a dreamy young idealist who tries to follow his dream but failed because of his innocent mistake which prove to be fatal and irreversible. Still, Chris McCandless's courage and passion was something that we should all be proud of.

Success is different for every person. For some people success is making a lot of money, for others it is living a just life. Some people view success as becoming the best in their career. Every person has their own view of what success is. Once one goal is accomplished, another is set. In the novel, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless was a young man who set many goals for himself. He achieved many of his goals through his life. Chris's idea of success was far different from other peoples. The concept of success, is the achievement of one's goals to satisfy oneself and society.

Callarman’s argument from the book “Into the Wild” is that Chris McCandless made a lot of mistakes because he was arrogant and that he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness and he says that he was just crazy. I disagree with Callarman’s argument because I think that Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) was not arrogant, I think that he just wanted to learn new things. I also disagree because I think that Chris did have a reason to go to Alaska or else he would not have done it even if it just to go because he likes nature, and I don’t think that he was crazy at the beginning but I agree that he did start to get crazy when he was stuck in the wilderness on the bus.

Jon Krakauer, the author of the book, Into the Wild only know about Chris McCandless is an explorer traveling to Alaska search for himself reborn. However he isn’t exactly what he really is, but an ignorant, foolish, selfish, and misunderstanding of the world in which he lives. These words that have been used to describe him are based on the idea that he went on a journey to the Alaskan wilderness to seek his own revelation, but not having a firm grasp of reality, he senselessly died a stubborn man, the people mention that he was unprepared to go into the wilderness, didn’t listen to a more experienced person, broken several of state laws, abandoned his family and loved ones, and followed a dream that never existed. Personally believed he is an ignorant fool, selfish, and misunderstand man that throws his life away for nothing but despair.