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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

| Shows no emotion to the murders and crimes that he committed. A heartless selfish man.

In the book “The Wild Truth”, Carine writes of the abuse she and Chris endured that “compared to [their] reality, [Krakauer’s] book, and [Penn’s] film were extremely kind” to Walt and Billie (Mccandless 15). This is one of the reasons why someone may think Chris was justified in his decision to “go into the wild”; in fact, one could say that it was his parents’ fault for driving him away. It may be a valid reason for why he left his family’s home, but it does not really justify how he hurt those who he met during his travels. The people that he effected after his death, excluding his parents, had not wronged or hurt him in any way; therefore, it is still not justifiable, in terms of his actions after he left his old home behind. Another thing that should be pointed out would be his reluctance to accept help from others. In the film, he had little to no problem with staying with others for a short time, yet he would be extremely reluctant to accept anything that could potentially help him survive the wild. Due to this reluctance, he was very underprepared when he entered the wild and eventually he died. Even though his death may have been from a mistake he had made, if he had been better prepared or even accepted a bit more help from the people he met, he probably could have survived a

and the concerns of his children so he wants to be a good man and to

Finally, one of the most important moral values a human being can possess is selflessness. It is when a person puts someone else’s needs before their own. In Gran Torino, one of the most heartfelt and saddest moments was when Walt sacrificed his life for Thao and the neighbourhood. He knew that if Thao went after his

This perspective goes against him being defined as a tragic hero—it conflicts with Miller’s criteria in which the “protagonist’s primary struggle needs to be the search for their sense of dignity and identity [and] find their rightful place in society”(Miller). However, Krakauer refutes this belief through stating that his childhood lifestyle was controlled through the harshness of Christopher’s father. He says, “given Walt’s authority through high school and college to a surprising degree, but the boy raged inwardly all the while. He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents’ lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love”(Krakauer 64). McCandless’ years up to high school had been a blinded lifestyle in which he had to follow the routine of his authoritative father. It is not until university where he is able to truly seek out the freedom of being able to choose what he wants to pursue in his life. By the time he graduates, he already makes the choice to take a journey into the wild, meaning that he had no past experience of getting a job, making money, or having a set routine life as other college graduates. Krakauer uses this situation to strengthen his illustration of McCandless as a tragic hero, as it shows that he truly does not have a rightful

Walt McCandless remembers that when hiking Longs Peak in Colorado “Chris wanted to keep going to the top... If he’d been fourteen or fifteen, he would have simply gone on without me (Krakauer, 109).” McCandless knew what he wanted to achieve, regardless of whether it meant disobeying orders. If Chris wanted something, he would work to get it. This rationale only grew until he was almost unstoppable in his teenage years, which is why “It’s somewhat surprising that Chris ceded to pressure from Walt and Billie about attending college when he refused to listen to them about so many other things (Krakauer, 114).” Through his teenage years, Chris consistently disobeyed his parents orders and suggestions because he despised his father’s past. Even while on the road, many of those who met Chris picked up on his strong distaste for his father, as Wayne Westerberg noted, “From the things he said, you could tell something wasn’t right between him and his family (Krakauer, 18).” Chris hated the man who told him lies throughout his life and about his past, and it seems that Chris associated anything that Walt did, with evil. Any moral decisions Walt made had to be inherently malicious, so McCandless contradicted most of Walt’s decrees. Scientists had discovered that character flaws like stubbornness can be developed due to “misconceptions about the nature of self , life or others

driven by a force to prove himself but also to get revenge on his father, Walt, whose past continually

Walt was good at his job and doing well to perform his duties, but then few things happened around him, which changed his whole life. The first thing or event was corruption, which he was seeing around him in his company. The second thing was to see the superiors also doing corruption and looting money from the company accounts. And third thing was customers of the company. He saw that even customers don’t pay up their money to the company, but still company is bearing them, so he thought if customers are free to do so, then why he cannot do so. He saw that rules are being broken everywhere, so he thought to do so as well. These three events became the major factors for Walt to think about committing a crime

When Ron Franz tried to talk to him parents he got angry, however in his effort to become nothing like his father, he instead resembled him more than he realized. In the movie “The Wild Truth, which parallels Into the Wild while still filling the gaps missed by Krakauer, many of the children in both the McCandless family and the family of Walt’s first marriage have told how Walt would appear some nights after being gone for weeks with the other family, then he’d get angry and drunk and disappear again. This habitual running from one family to the other went on for two years, until finally the mother of the first family obtained a restraining order. Little to Chris’ knowledge did he realize that he mirrored these actions, believing that because he was not hostile like his father that he was not hurting people. This was far from the truth.

On some level he knows he can't control others, and that learning fills his edginess. In "The Fly," Breaking Bad's most clearly ruminative scene, Walt miracles provided that he can uncover a way out of the profound mess he's in. “I truly believe there exists some combination of words,” he tells Jesse. “There must exist certain words in a certain specific order that would explain all of this. I just can’t ever seem to find them.” Walt imagines that provided that he can uncover a succession of expressions as flawlessly requested as the gem designs he uncovered in graduate school, he can legitimize all his movements to Skyler and repair his broken family — maybe much adjust the unalterable wrongs he has done. However Nietzsche's cautioning about dialect rings a bell again: expressions can't catch what we without a doubt feel, and we can't control how others will hear even the most.

Walt Masters seeked justice for the claim jumpers who jumped an old man’s claim during the Klondike Gold Rush. This story appears when the Klondike Gold Rush was happening. Next to Walt, there was a neighboring claim owned by an old man by the name of Loren Hall. Loren had to go to Dawson, and Walt looked over the claim while he was gone. Walt had an ambition to serve justice and save Loren when his property was in danger. He is a very brave boy who has experienced things other children haven’t, and he will definitely help when someone is in need. “Last of all, he has a good heart, and is not afraid of the darkness and loneliness, of man or beast or thing” (London). This quote shows that he isn’t afraid of anything and that it will help him when he needs

The conclusion of the film was extremely dramatic and effective at reiterating the neighborhood’s increased confidence over the gang activity.  Walt began the confidence building by standing against the gang publicly.  This brought the neighborhood to think of him as a hero and shower him with gifts of praise.  It was befitting that he would martyr himself in the end.  Lying on the ground dead like Jesus nailed to the cross.  His essential “suicide by gang” was not the only possible solution to the problem.  Though conflict resolution through communication with gang members would more than likely fail, neighborhoods in similar situations have stood firm as a community against gang violence and intimidation.  Using the latest technology, they have driven gang elements away.  By joining neighborhood watch and documenting illegal behaviors from gang members, neighborhoods have made themselves less attractive for gangs to reside.  “The gang's power increases through their use of fear and violence to intimidate rivals and citizens alike. This tactic can be countered by citizen action groups such as Neighborhood Watch. A neighborhood that is united in the goal to stop gang crime and violence can be an effective force in curbing gangs”.  (Orange County Sheriff Office, 1992, p.1).

He knows that he made choices that would allow him to survive, however killing others brought on feelings of guilt; guilt he carried since 1952. He carried this guilt for so long and it lead to remorse, this is what allowed him to search for redemption. As the plot develops, Walt proves himself

In the first season, it is easy for viewers to sympathize with Walter. He seems like an average man with bad luck, just trying to make his life less miserable for himself and for his family. Though most viewers seem to still root for Walt throughout the show, we recognize his transformation to violent and selfish. The first man he murders, meth distributor Krazy 8, was an act of self-defense but the act was a turning point in Walt's character. Not only did the murder show that Walt is capable of killing, but from his behavior afterwards he seemed virtually unaffected.