Nonconformity In Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

Ronald Franz is another person who affected McCandless’ life with his hospitality. Ronald taught Chris leatherworking and gave him a ride. This acts changed Chris’s life because without a ride to Colorado he wouldn’t be able to continue his

The father and son conflict is a crucial theme in the nonfiction book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. In Jon Krakauer’s book, the main character, Chris McCandless exhibits a lifelong conflict with his father, Walt McCandless. Chris is an erudite, talented, yet stubborn young man. He yearns to leave the typical lifestyle of the upper middle class American family, and after graduating college at Emory, he mysteriously disappears. Walt is a controlling man with a morally unstable past, and his career and money is of more value to him than his family. The theme often appears in the background of the book, representing one of the major motivations for Chris McCandless’ absence. This theme is evident

In the book Into the Wild the main character, Chris Mccandless, made a rational decision to exclude himself from human society because he believed that going beyond what his parents, and society wanted, he would live a happier life. Chris wanted to leave society and venture into the wilderness to find the true meaning of who he was. Chris Mccandless was neither crazy or ignorant to live off in the wild where there was no people or anything to interact with, but nature. Chris wanted to find his inner self and not only was he a role model for kids all across the country, but he also followed his dream. Even though it was selfish of him leaving his family, Chris Mccandless was not crazy simply because he

The gripping tale of a young man who leaves all that he has and goes to live amidst the natural world, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer showcases the two years Christopher McCandless had spent journeying throughout the United States before his unfortunate death. After graduating from Emory University in 1990, McCandless disconnected with all of his past relations and abandoned the majority of his possessions. McCandless’ decisions either seem extremely unwise or extremely courageous. He had a comfortable life with few worries yet he still chose to toss it all away and venture into unknown territories. What many wonder is why he would do such an irrational thing. Maybe, McCandless’ was simply trying to run away from his perception of reality.

Chris McCandless was always able to behave appropriately in public, but he felt better when he was alone. Why did he feel better when he was alone and why did he abandon his privileged lifestyle in Annandale Virginia? Chris McCandless grew up with many talents and opportunities that others didn’t have. Chris threw away his life and ditched his family when he decided to hitchhike across the country and live out of his back pack. What could have motivated a young man with so much potential to do what Chris did? Chriss’ decision to isolate himself had its’ negative and positive effects on him.

Much of the human race live their lives in accordance to what society sees as acceptable, but Christopher McCandless disregards societal norms in the novel Into the Wild. Within the novel, Jon Krakauer explores the story of Christopher McCandless’s journey to Alaska and investigates the events leading up to his death. Krakauer tells the story concerning McCandless’s life in a fashion that reveals a truth about nonconformity. Krakauer sends a message to common readers that nonconformity is not possible and the only way to survive the world we live in is to conform to our surroundings. Jon Krakauer express’s his ideals on nonconformity within Into the Wild through his non-chronological organizational structure, the use of logical reasoning,

In Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book, Into the Wild, we follow how humans love the wilderness, the strain of father son relationships, and for the majority of the book a young adult named Chris McCandless. We see mostly through Chris’ eyes just how much the wilderness can entice young adults as well as how important crushing news of one’s father can change your life. McCandless was an angry pseudo adult who couldn’t handle a sizeable change in his life. He was too stuck on it being his way that he rarely could bring himself to accept help and improve his ability to actually survive. However, there was some good about McCandless. His search for himself and the truth were great intentions despite the flawed approach.

Chris is a charismatic young man, but takes extensive measures to ensure he does not become too close with anyone. By going out into the wild without so much as a letter to his parents,

With a silent yet inescapable list of expectations, the pressure of society, and his damaged parents, one could believe that the adventure he embarked on was a way to remove himself from his destructive environment. However Chris had never experienced independence in his life. He felt separated from everyone with few friends and a well-off family that was tragically broken, and

Throughout his journey, Chris never sends his parents a letter or anything, “Chris’s parents have heard nothing from their son since they’d received his grades in the mail”(page 17). This is selfish because his parents provided food, clothing, a nice house and everything he needed, but he still decided to purposely forget about their existence. Also, when Chris’s parents offered him a new car, he takes it as an insult, Chris says, “they ignore what I say and think I’d actually accept a new car from them! I am going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect” (page 116).

Chris didn’t live a happy life because, in the book his parents claim that he was a smart kid and did well in school and was put in accelerated programs, in which he didn’t want to

Chris’s family had a imperfect reputation which caused him to be treated differently at school, he noticed. This scene is important as Chris doesn't want to end up as an

The second problem Chris had with society is that family is not everything. Chris loved his family and friends, but he did not like to keep them close especially his parents. He changed his name to Alexander Supertramp just to make it harder for his family to find him and convince him to come home. One friend says "'I think he would have been unhappy with any parents; he had trouble the whole idea of parents'"(115). Whoever remembers Chris they all say he just did not like to be told what to do.

In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer used diction to suggest that Chris McCandless felt imprisoned in the rich upper class society of the east coast and therefore justified Chris’ departure and adventure. Chris wished to escape his rich yet insufficient past by venturing to a place that defy the principle of his old prison-like life. For years Chris suffered through a deficiency of self-actualization in his “tastefully decorated, spotless” home in Annandale, a materialistic home, where the soil for idealism was not fertile(104). There was no room for an ideological existence based on free will because Chris’s parent could not tolerate anything that did not fall into line. “An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road” - Chris did

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.