Into The Wild: A Short Story

In 1990 at the age of 22, Chris McCandless started his journey to travel the country and live off the land alone. He survived well until he hitchhiked to Alaska in 1992. Chris thought that if he could make it there, he could make it anywhere. Four months after going off the grid in the Alaskan wilderness, his decomposed body was discovered by a party of hunters. The nonfiction novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is his story. It has many important themes that define the life of Chris McCandless. A couple themes, for example, are having the feeling of ultimate freedom and seeking happiness through a personal challenge.

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Throughout life, many people take big chances and do things that are a little out of their comfort zone. But would you, or anyone else in the world, ever truly throw away your life and do something that no other person would truly do? Would you leave everything in your life behind, and start a new life that you don't know what the outcome will be? Not everyone is meant to take risks and chances. With this world, no one ever truly knows what will happen. Some people don't always have the right capabilities that are needed to fulfill a full life in the wild.

Into the Wild is a book about a young man named Chris McCandless and his decision to go off and live in the wild. He decided to walk deep into the Alaskan wilderness and abandon all of his possessions and family. This book is the authors, Jon Krakauer, version of Chris McCandless’ story put together through interviewing and speaking with people who knew Chris as well as by using letters Chris wrote to his loved ones.

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Once an individual dies, his true intentions and feelings can never be known. People can speculate all they want, but unless they have had similar experiences as the individual, they must refrain all judgments. In the nonfiction work Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, many readers have harshly judged the main character, Chris McCandless, as stupid and thoughtless for his dangerous and ultimately fatal adventure in the raw wilderness of Alaska; many have even said he had been suicidal. The author attempts to display Chris as a human being with meaningful intentions and emotional yearning rather than just a stereotypical, reckless vagabond by using his own story as a similar experience to Chris’, so readers can begin to understand Chris from a

When I was younger, I remember this space in between my back yard and these appartments that was filled with trees; it was almost like my own personal forest. I would escape there and spend hours chasing stray cats and making pine cone soup until my mother called me in for dinner. I remember how I wish that I could have this freedom forever and how I was going to run away from everything and live in the wild when I got older. A lot of people can relate to wanting to get away from it all and live just for yourself, but most , like me, ether grew out of it or just keep this image for a stressful day when you want to relax with no plans on ever completing this fantasy. Unlike the rest of us there are the few who actually make this this a reality like Christopher Johnson McCandless who died in the Alaskan wild after pursuing this

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In chapter 7, Shane didn't care what people said or thought about him. He only cared what people said to Joe. So when Fletcher and his boys pass by his land on their horses making jokes about having pigs and their smell , while Joe not having any, Shane goes back to town . He comes back and tells everyone that “ your pigs are dead and buried”. When Shane leaves to the back yard, one of the homesteaders comes rushing in and tells everyone what in the bar between Shane and Chris. Everyone realizes how dangerous Shane is when he grabbed Chris and starting slapping repeatedly in the face when he bought Chris a drink and threw it back to shane. Chris tried to attack shane but he kept dodging him. The fight ended rapidly with Chris having a broken

“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark” by Robert Heinlein. This idea of being a blank slate is known as Tabula rasa presented by John Locke, a 16th-century philosopher. Moreover, when we are born, we are empty and have insufficient information stored in our brain, but as we get older, we gain information and so our piece of paper continuously is filling up (Barber 1). However, many other factors leave a mark and it is not just because of people. First, there is the nature aspect which involving the prominent gene in the parents. Physical attributes are passed down from the parents like eye color and color blindness. In addition, a major issue is what is the right way to raise

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In a society filled with contaminated brains of hierarchy, social media, and a “rich” state of mind, individuals are bound to lose sight of the genuine purpose of life. People for centuries have been pondering over the concept of “the purpose of life”, but the genuine answer lies within ourselves. Each individual has their own purposes that are intended to be fulfilled during their lifespan. In the novel, Into The Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless searches for his substance and purpose by abandoning his affluent life and heads into the austere lifestyle the frigid forests have to offer .

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