Into the Wild: Chris McCandless is a True Hero

Others took his humbleness as another form of arrogance and thought of him as disgust. Because of all of this they thought of him as a villain instead of a hero.

Throughout his adolescent to young adult years it was very clear that Chris had an attachment to the wild. In chapter 11, as Walt reminisces about Chris and their family camp trips he reflects, “‘Chris loved those trips, the longer the better . . .’”(108). Even at a very young age, Chris had a fascination about living within

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.

parents at an early age and working as a merchant most of his life . He retreated to a cave in a near

To say that Krakauer does have a bias towards McCandless is a rather obvious statement and something known to the reader from the author’s note. “My convictions should be apparent soon enough, but I will leave it to the reader to form his or her own opinion.” Yet despite a personal bias Krakauer has towards McCandless he keeps his promise to the reader and serves as an impartial enough biographer to allow the reader to form their own opinions. By interviewing both those who knew Chris or Alexander Supertramp on his journey to the last frontier and Alaskan locals, Krakauer steps to the side and lets others give their thoughts or memories as well as criticisms of the man who met his fate in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer does interfere with Chris/Alex’s story at one point in order

He is looked upon in a heroic way for fighting the justice system and showing courage, strength and ability to resist laws through making his own lifestyle, with separate beliefs, attitudes and values. He was a friend of the poor, kind to women and children, and an enemy of the rich. He was forced into crime by the harsh harassments of the authorities. He said to have died bravely against the more powerful forces of the law. He has grown to be an admired infamous figure for the way he stood up to authority and his larrikin ways.

Throughout children’s lives they struggle with complying with their parents lifestyles. When children reach an age of early adulthood, they start to rebel against their parents’ way of life. The psychological term for this dynamic is called reaction formation ("Into the Wild."). Chris McCandless had this reaction, but much more radical than normal. McCandless developed an abhorrence to his parents lifestyle and goals for him at a reasonably early age. This later intensified as Chris discovered his father's past. Rage turned Chris into a devil’s advocate, and it seems as though he would do anything as long as his father disapproved. The attitude to never bend a knee from his original mindset through every situation was a result of this rebellion.

Second of all, he is a figure of history. This man was a pilgrim set out on an expedition to find a way around the world and spread his faith. There is a saying that say that “if you erase history, it repeats itself”. That is exactly

His actions were inspiring because even though he died, he still managed to live a good while in the wild, he lived a life the way he dreamed of having, without any abuse or traumatic incidents in his household with his parents. He proved to everyone that it doesn't take a whole lot to survive it just takes pride and confidence that you can and that you will. His motivation is what got him there and his never ending work, he worked his way up to alaska and nature granted him the freedom he

Leaving home to a new town with no clothes, phone or vehicle, Chris McCandless and Adam Shepard both go on an adventure of a lifetime, but do they have an individual purpose? Chris McCandless grew up in a materialistic world, surrounded by money and greed, he graduates from Emory University and leaves his apartment in Atlanta, Georgia. Adam Shepard grew up in a loving family and graduated from Merrimack College. He leaves after graduation to prove that the American Dream is still Chris McCandless was more admirable than Adam Shepard because McCandless did not want to fit into society or depend on money or modern day technology, he proved that a person can be self reliant.

Chris McCandless enjoyed a privileged upbringing, but one in which he was held to high expectations. Chris's

Everyone started to see that he was turning into a bad guy. He had a bad temper. He didn’t want to listen to what others had to say. He started out in the story with being well-respected and also self-made. But things happened in the story that made him change the way that he act. Internally inside him, he had fear. He had a fear that he was going to turn out like his father. He was also lazy, unable to support his family. He also considered his father’s characteristics to be feminine.

Which turned him into a kid who didn’t aspire to become like his father. This lead to running away from everything that made him remember of his father, even his skin color. As said he was considered nothing more than a “performing monkey” to his family. These occurrences in his life changed him to the person he was before he passed away. What he went through psychologically made him execrate himself.

father the way his mother had been hit years before seemed to cast the main reason he wanted to go

Throughout his life he was never secured into what he should do for the rest of his life. His father desperately