How Is Chris Mccandless Selfish

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.

Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography about the life of Christopher Johnson McCandless. Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska alone in April 1992. He burned any knowns of his identity including all his money and abandoned his car. He did not prepare at all for his trek and was found dead four months after he had disappeared in a bus he was staying in. Chris McCandless constructs identity through his actions, interests, values and beliefs.

Into The Wild written by Jon Krakauer is a biography Into the Wild begins when a young boy just out of college named Chris McCandless decides to disown the rules of society and chooses to live in the wild. After flooding to Alaska he fought with many conflicts that caused him to die. This book traces his steps and trail from living in the wild all the way until his death on August 1992. There are many conflicts that led Chris McCandless to death but the most important was his conflict with his father Walt, conflict with food in the wild, and the conflict within himself.

Into the Wild is a book written by jon krakauer. The book details the life of chris mccandless as he journeys through the american wilds as best as the krakauer could possibly portray it. Despite how he does his best to portray the life of chris, he ultimately has a bias in the story.

In nature, Chris focused only on himself and survival, rather than his troubles at home, the needs of others, or the standards of society. In a way, he was forced to go into the outdoors because of these poor relationships and inner conflicts within himself. Although Chris sought nature to help him, it destroyed him. He never returned from Alaska to put into practice what he had finally learned about himself and his need for others. Nature and his plan had worked against him, since, he eventually died of starvation.

Chris McCandless was a spoiled brat. One example of this was when Chris was being dropped off at the start of the Stampede Trail by Jim Gallien. He insisted on giving Gallien his watch, comb, and money. If he did not take them, “[Chris would] throw [them] away,” (Krakauer 7). Chris had no appreciation for his belongings. He planned to just throw away his belongings and money. This was just one of the many times he took his belongings for granted; he burned his money, ditched his car, and refused to take actual boots from Gallien. He disposed of money because he had no value of it and did not appreciate the work it took to make that money. He was raised in an upper class household and did not have to work hard to have money. He grew up in a

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.

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.

Initially, Chris willingly renounced his financially comfortable background because of his characterization of being a nonconformist. McCandless believed that it was possible for an individual to acquire too much money and could be a result of unearned privilege which is why “he donated the balance of his bank account to OXFAM” (Into the Wild) and later began to earn his money from labor that he would perform on the job. The actions McCandless made in his life were both equally irregular and bold due to his determination to challenge everything that he has known which instigates to a heroic persona. Furthering what was last stated, a limited amount of individuals have neither the resourcefulness nor initiative to abandon the conformity of their simple lifestyle no matter how imperfect it may be due their uncertainty of what could potentially arise from completely shifting their

Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer tells of a young man named Chris McCandless who 1deserted his college degree and all his worldly possessions in favor of a primitive transient life in the wilderness. Krakauer first told the story of Chris in an article in Outside Magazine, but went on to write a thorough book, which encompasses his life in the hopes to explain what caused him to venture off alone into the wild. McCandless’ story soon became a national phenomenon, and had many people questioning why a “young man from a well-to-do East Coast family [would] hitchhike to Alaska” (Krakauer i). Chris comes from an affluent household and has parents that strived to create a desirable life for him and his sister. As Chris grows up, he

Chris McCandless had an unbearable amount of hatred for the Government and society as a whole. “Immediately after graduating with honors from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight.” And then he invented a new life for himself.” This goes to show Chris was not happy living the routine society provided him. He hated how boring life was, living the same routine waking up, going to work, going home and repeat all over again. “Hell no,” Alex scoffed.” How I feed myself is none of the governments business.” This demonstrated his anger towards the government. He felt as though they were too controlling. Chris stated,” Fuck their stupid rules.” Chris did not agree with the restrictions and regulations the government forced upon citizens. He believed it was none of their business. Clearly Chris

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a boy named Chris McCandless. Chris gets tired of society and their rules. Chris is not good at taking advice and doesn't listen when people tell him. He abandons his family, never talks to them again and leaves them concerned and worried.

This is really because with Chris McCandless there are really only two opinions about him, how noble and free he is and how he’s selfish and how he made an arrogant assumption that he could survive in the wild by himself. Those of the prior prefer to have Chris represent some kind of emblem of purity and freedom they can relate to. “McCandless was not a transcendent saint, nor was he a bumbling, arrogant dis-respecter of nature, and to press him into service as an emblem of anything is a mistake”(Hodes). What this quote states is that yes Chris is not a mindless fool, but he definitely is not a saint either. While farfetched, Chris may have done all of this for some sort of attention, and if that is true, he succeeded. It has been 24 years since Chris’ death and he is still a relevant topic in our society. This can really paint a somewhat blurry picture of what may have gone through Chris’ head, because there is either a young adult traveling into nature without any support and got himself killed, or someone who did this all purposely to go down in history. Either way there is no doubt Chris is selfish since if he were just someone who made a bunch of idiotic decisions and got himself killed, the pain everyone who tried to help him is at full, and if it was the latter Chris is just another kid dying for

On page 71 it says ”Entering the wilderness purposefully ill-unprepared, and surviving a near death experience does not make you a better human, it makes you damn lucky.” Therefore if his way of going about things were different he might have been able to actually survive. So it is clear that Chris is foolish for not being more prepared and accepting of help when offered, it maybe could’ve changed his

The novel Into the Wild is a nonfiction novel published by Jon Krakauer who investigated the life and death of a free spirited individual named Christopher McCandless. McCandless was a recent Emory University graduate who sought to suck the marrow out of life through an independent experience in nature and purposely sought to this experience in the rawest form of supplies. He was found dead in August of 1992 in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. For the sake of his journey, he purposely didn't bring an adequate amount of food or supplies.   Consequently, those who read of his actions wonder what evoked him to live the way he