Nick Mccaarty Character Analysis

In society, people tend to follow the people's footsteps and apply new characteristic or methods that they obtain from there person. In the story, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless was a boy who favors several literacy heroes. He was able to understand each hero and apply there knowledge that they obtain from other people. He was favoriting Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Leo Tolstoy and much more. Henry David Thoreau was an American poet and an essayist and wrote numerous books based on his philosophy. However, in the book, he plays a crucial role in giving Chris McCandless life lesson throughout his journey. Jack London is a worldwide celebrity and a famous novelist and journalist. He also has some characteristics that Chris has also obtained from him. In addition, Leo Tolstoy was one of the greatest Russian authors of all times. He has inspired Chris with some of his quotes which reflects him during his journey. There are more heroes that Chris mentions in the story but these are three which he tends to reflect more on.

Chris McCandless is the main character from the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, he is a idealistic man who beliefs that life should be spent out in the wild. He took a journey all the way to Alaska by himself leaving his whole life and family behind to pursue his dream. On his way to Alaska he faced many obstacles and got through them with the help of several people whom he met throughout this journey. Jan Burres, Ronald Franz and Westerberg are some of the people whom Chris interacted with leaving them behind with different impressions on each of them.

Krakauer starts the book off by telling who was last with McCandless before he set off onto the trail, he would never return to. Krakauer gives the readers background information for most of the book, along with excerpts from McCandless’s journal he seldom kept. This helps his argument because it gives us an inside look at McCandless’s life and the reasons for some of the things he would've done. Starting in chapter 11, titled “Chesapeake Bay,” Krakauer gives an insight to Christopher McCandless’s family around 2 months after his body was found. By organizing his book starting with whom McCandless met and his travel across the country, Krakauer makes his argument about McCandless and how he did not go into the wild unprepared, very clear and persuasive to the

The author, Tim O’brien of the book The Things They Carried uses events and characters from the memoir in place of some experiences him and the narrator shares. Fictionalizing many emotions and events that happened to Tim through other characters usually that he wouldn’t feel or do. For example Tim talks about how at a point he wanted to run away to canada when he received his draft notice. This feeling of discontent and the thought of war sickened him to the point he was just yards away from Canada but felt as though that would be a coward move. The author and character shared similar ideas however the author Tim didn’t attempt to run away but his character did. O’Brien informs his audience on the difference of the war from the stereotypical

In the novel, the author, Jon Krakauer, documented the journey of a young individual named Chris McCandless who went on a treacherous journey which led a tragic ending. In pursuit of a lifestyle that differed from society, McCandless encountered several people who aided and advised him. The errors in his choices are what ultimately led to his demise leading to public scrutiny.

“Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like inheritance and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interest, we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down.” (pg.40) Tim O'brien turns a boy decision of weather to fight in the Vietnam war or flee to Canada into such an exciting piece of writing by using character Elroy Berdahl who is a silent Observer who helps Tim overcome his fears and hallucinations.

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Christopher Johnson McCandless graduated from Emory University in 1990. The son of well-to-do parents, it appeared that Chris was prepared to embark on the next chapter of his life. He had been editor of the student newspaper, earned honors with a double major in history and anthropology, and seemed destined for law school. Determined to rewrite his story, Chris eschewed conventional expectations. He divested himself of money and possessions and immersed himself in a new identity: Alexander Supertramp, Alaskan Adventurer. Four months after beginning his trek into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley, Chris's decomposed body was found. When the details of his story emerged, many people thought Chris was mentally disturbed, calling him a "kook," a "nut," and "a half-cocked greenhorn," among other things (Krakauer, 1996, pp. 71-72). Had Chris's story had a happy ending, he would probably be described differently. He brought the tragic ending on himself, and people called him crazy. "Crazy" is a non-clinical word often used to describe someone with an underlying pathology. In this sense, there was nothing wrong with Chris McCandless. What he did suffer from was the enthusiasm and over-confidence of youth. Combined with poor planning and insufficient skills and experience in the outdoors, his "affliction" became fatal. McCandless made bad decisions, but he was not crazy.

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Fate means different things to different people in the novel. Fate within the book is often tied to God being in control, with the boys thinking about if things could turn out differently and why certain things happen, "Rawlins lay watching the stars. After a while he said I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to Born. I’d be born. And if he didn’t you wouldnt (McCarthy 27)”. Fate is also tied to feelings of responsibility throughout the book. John Grady is in a constant moral conflict of wanting to leave Blevins versus feeling responsible for him at the same time. The novel often shows two approaches to dealing with fate. There is Alfonsa who learned to just accept fate as it is and John Grady Cole who

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