Is Chris Mccandless Crazy Or Insane

After that accident, Chris realized that what he was doing was destroying his life. He didn’t have a relationship with his children and his wife didn’t talk to him. The drug addict went to a rehabilitation

Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, is the story of a young man, Chris Mccandless who was going in the right direction. He had finished college and had a family who loved him, somehow he took a major detour that landed him dead in Alaska. Chris Mccandless shaped his identity through his actions, interests, values and beliefs.

Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a memoir about how living in the wilderness and how Chris McCandless lived nearly two years in the wild. Throughout the novel, Krakauer relates Chris’ adventures to his own experience in mountain climbing and living on his own. This is not your typical memoir where the author tells a story about their lives. Jon Krakauer is not the main character; however he tells a story of this boy who leaves his well-developed family for no apparent reason. But not only does he tell Chris’ story, he tells his own by fusing them altogether.

Ronald Franz was the single person most affected by Chris during his adventure. One example of how Chris’s practice of non conformity affected him in a bad way is when Franz offers to adopt Chris; “I asked Alex if I could adopt him, if he would be my grandson” (page 55) Mccandless then dodged the question and said they would talk about it when he got back from Alaska. Chris could not stand the idea of having more authority in his life, which is why he dodged the uncomfortable question. Another reason Chris’s nonconformity affected Franz was a letter he wrote to him when Chris left, (page 57-58) which was about how Ronald Franz should go out and live off the land like Chris did, and that life does not emanate only from human relationships.

childhood was soon discovered to be a thin veil of lies. Chris uncovered his father’s affair and

Walking into Alaska after graduating from college doesn't make you crazy. Most people think about doing random things that they most likely won’t do. In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer we follow the story of Chris McCandless who just happened to go through with his plan. Shaun Callarman said that Chris was bright and ignorant, he even said that chris was just plain crazy. I disagree with Chris being crazy for many reasons, the most important one being that he is still young and doesn't understand life.

Chris burns his money and gives up all his possessions,including his education. There are children all over the world starving and uneducated that would kill to have the life chris had. He was a very fortunate kid and he threw it all away, which to me was a big ‘F” you. “He told us about abandoning his car, about burning all his money. (30)” There are people barely surviving, who work all day and night just to make enough money for basic necessities like a home, water, food,etc. Chris was so wrapped up in himself, he never saw how much people struggled and what a few hundred dollars can help a person. In my opinion Chris took life for granted and had everything handed to him.In the movie we see Ron Franz asking Chris to adopt him. Franz was more of a father like figure to him, than his actual father was. Coming from a broken family, you would expect chris to accept any type of love from anyone, instead Chris is selfish and tells Franz “They will talk about this when he gets back from Alaska.” Chris knew he was never going to get back to Franz, even if he did make it in Alaska.Chris could have been more straight up with a man that sacrificed so much time and patience. A “NO” would have been less heart breaking

This makes Chris appear as someone who is so unable to sympathize with his parents to where he couldn’t come to the realization that a mistake made years ago didn’t make his parents deserve months upon months of anguish wondering if their child was alive. This treatment isn’t a one-time occurrence. When Ronald Franz meets Chris, he goes and treats Chris like his own grandson, describing his voice “like sunshine after a month of rain”(54). He then goes and asks Chris if he can adopt him, to which Chris avoids the question, responding with “We’ll talk about it

Chris was finished with his old way of living and wanted to start over. This is easy to agree with; however, I do not agree with Denby’s perspective on what Chris had on the inside. Denby argues that Chris was unable to focus on anyone but himself. Through watching Chris focus on Rainey, Jan, Tracy, and Ron, I think Chris was anything but selfish and conceited. He had deep feelings for these people. He worked for free in Rainey and Jan’s booth and pushed Ron to climb a mountain he never thought he could, in both a literal and figurative way. He showed Tracy that she was beautiful inside and could be anything she aspired to

Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, traces the life of Chris McCandless' journey as he enters the unforgiving territory of Alaska. Leaving behind his destined future of a profitable career, McCandless sets out for the calling of his heart and the truth of life. Not long after, Chris was found breathless in a bus, within the Alaskan wilderness. Throughout the novel, Krakauer retells the significant events that occurred in Chris' life, leading up to his death. By the incorporation of strong sentence structure, anecdote, vivid imagery, and a direct theme, Krakauer effectively convinces the audience that Chris is not fully unusual and as foolish as he is perceived to be.

Chris’s actions and thoughts reveal yet more of his mysterious personality to his life, friends, and his family. At this point in the book, we know that Chris had went through college and used the remainder of his college fund to donate to charity. The thing unclear about this passage is the decisions he made. Why didn’t he submit his life to the wild instead of continuing to law school and build a life for himself ? His feelings towards his friends and family are also reemphasized. Overall, he is depicted as someone who is determined to shut himself off from the rest of the world. By being happy to be on the road and evade the threat of human intimacy, he shows he has no intention of ever becoming close to anyone in order to prevent hurting

Franz eventually let Chris stay with him and cared for Chris as if he were his own, which he did

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

From a young age, Chris experiences many hardships. One of his significant childhood memories was living with his abusive father, Freddie. This had a very negative and profound impact on Chris. He mentions, “my self-esteem had suffered a lot from Freddie’s daily attacks”(Gardner 90). Although Chris was tormented a lot by his father, he still had many great mentors to motivate him who helped him through his hard times.

Chris fights for happiness. He does this by never giving up on his dreams, extremely motivated to get a job to help support him and Christopher. Chris refuses to give up and this makes him a good role model towards his son and anyone else because in life we need to learn that some things may be hard to earn and we shouldn’t give up no matter what the circumstances are. He struggles to keep his wife because of money, that’s the one thing Chris needs to support for his family. He values family and the fact that Christopher goes to day-care just to watch cartoons annoys Chris so much because he thinks he’s paying good money for Christopher to learn and to strive for things. The actor also allowed you to see Chris mastering his frustration