Chris Mccandles Adventurer or mentally ill
“If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex”. (3)Chris McCandless aka Alex Super tramp was a young man with an adventures heart, but other mistake that for mental illness. His whole life Chris was different. Didn’t conform to others, liked to adventure, but there was a method to his madness and the fact of the matter is, even though some readers of into the wild, by Jon Krakauer say Chris is mentally insane, it’s clear that he is simply an adventurer with a thrill of the wilderness, because he didn’t talk to plastic people in order to stay distant and not conform, he was social to the people he wished to be social with and he had a plan to like and almost made it. Chris was known as mentally ill most of the time; however that isn’t the case. The fact is mc Donald’s coworkers see him as mental because he didn’t talk to them and rode in the desert every day; however in reality McCandless didn’t have any reason to talk to them and he was perfectly fine. He seen those people as “”Plastic People”” (43), and had no interest in Talking to them. Others thought he was mental because he stayed distant and didn’t talk, but Chris wasn’t talking to them on purpose and he knew what he was doing, where real mental people don’t mean to be anti – social but that’s how it is. Chris knew he was being anti – social and had his reasoning. Other than while working at McDonald’s and while he was in college, Chris was very social. While he was staying in the slabs with Jan and Bob Burres he was extremely social and loved it there. “McCandless spoke frequently to the denizens of the slabs about his plans for Alaska.” (45). The reason that people think he is mental is because he wasn’t social a couple times but he just chooses to talk to the people that he enjoys talking to. People that understand and care about what he says. Adventurers like him. Real adventurers understand him and see