I'm going to begin by telling you my personal philosophy from the perspective of a runaway's family member. Eventually I hope I can change your mind and make you think again about the desicion you made.…
These are the two reasons why Chris McCandless went on his two year journey. He was a very rebellious young man, that loved the meaning of life. He was also intelligent, Chris had influences from different composers. He wanted to find the meaning of life by himself. He wanted to live free from communication and other people. Chris McCandless was a brave young man, to take on this…
Also many people argued that McCandless was suffering from a mental illness probably like depression, however, there has been no evidence given that Chris was actually suffering from this. A third thing is that there is no doubt that Chris McCandless did not have a bound with his parents, he did not spend a lot of time with them, but have people considered the fact that Chris did not want to become like his parents, the type that have to work all the time and the type that do not have time to do anything else but…
Everyone is caught up with the idea of having to live a certain way and follow certain life steps. Many people forget to recall that it is acceptable to be overwhelmed with life and wanting to leave everything and everyone behind. In his book Into The Wild Jon Krakauer is trying to discover one of the many who left everything behind, Chris McCandless motive on why he went on this journey. Krakauer wanted the reader to know that McCandless represents the adventure, independence, and weakness of every human being.…
In Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book Into The Wild the main character is Chris McCandless a young man who is extremely smart and who seems to have everything going great in his life. There is only one thing, McCandless is a man that is missing something, in my opinion he was given everything he wanted except one thing that is extremely hard to find a raw experience of life. By that I mean a crude, adventure through the middle of the country with nothing except a backpack experience. Through this novel Krakauer gives an inside look on McCandless's adventure through the Denali Trail, giving us great details on his life, his influences and how he puts that into how he lives and travels. In the novel, Krakauer also uses epigraph's in the beginning of every chapter to show a little of foreshadowing of what the chapter will be influenced by and McCandless's influence of those words in that chapter.…
Chris McCandless was a young man who lived a strange, adventurous life. I disagree with Krakauer, McCandless seems to be a crazy person. Chris’s craziness is clearly shown throughout the book. He managed to survive one-hundred and thirteen days in the wild, but in the end he did die.…
One day in July of 1990, Chris McCandless severed all contact with his family and set out West and started his two year long journey that would ultimately end with his untimely death in the frozen, unforgiving landscape of Alaska. Something drove McCandless to venture out of the secure lifestyle his future had become and do the unexpected thing and journey across the Western hemisphere. Many people speculate that McCandless left because of simple rebellion and a penchant for risk-taking. While rebellion and risk-taking might have played a small role, I believe that McCandless’s family issues and philosophical beliefs were the true reasons he left to explore the vast and wild north.…
Christopher McCandless was as very unique type of guy. Many believe that his purpose was to leave the society that he hated and find his own happiness and peace in place where there is no human interaction. Although he seemed like a happy person, he did not have the best life at home. His parents struggled to keep their relationship together and also keep secrets from there kids. But McCandless wouldn't be the person people say he was. He…
“The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also...To take the trail and not look back. Whether on foot, on showshoes or by sled, into the summer hills and their late freezing shadows-a high blaze, a runner track in the snow would show where I had gone. Let the rest of mankind fine me if it could”(John Haines, The stars, The snow The Fire In Into The Wild 127). In the novel, Into The Wild,by Jon Krakauer, challenges the slander the protagonist faces. In the book, the protagonist is Chris Mccandless, otherwise known as Alex Supertramp. He was a hero an a noble traveler escaping the fate his parents set out for him; making Mccandless follow his dreams and aspirations for going all around the world and living…
Chris was set out to show his love for nature. While in the wild McCandless was telling us “Tramping is too easy with all this money. [His] days were more exciting when [he] was penniless and had to forage around for my [his] next meal” (Krakauer 33). While McCandless scavenges for food he has to know how nature works in order to eat the food; also, showing his love for nature by knowing how nature processes. McCandless rather find essensuals out in the wild to survive instead of everything to be given to him.…
He had very strong beliefs along with the determination to let nothing stop him in his path. Chris set out to live in the Alaskan wilderness for a couple of weeks and it proved to be more than he could handle. His resources became scarce and he feared for his own life. He ended up leaving an S.O.S note on the door of the bus he was living in and it read “Injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here, I am all alone, this is no joke (Krakauer 12).” His journey to Alaska proved to be fatal and a vast amount of theories began to spread across the media about how Chris died. Everyone has built an opinion about Chris McCandless, some say he’s crazy and ignorant and others say he’s bright and heroic. Shaun Callarman, a native Alaskan, didn’t admire him at all for his courage or his noble ideas. He felt that Chris McCandless was “Bright and ignorant at the same time,” and that “He had no common sense and no business going to Alaska with his romantic silliness.” I disagree with Shaun’s opinion to a certain extent because I feel that Chris was both foolish and noble when he began his journey to Alaska. Chris sought out to find himself and he let nothing stand in his path, but he wasn’t fully prepared for the…
Although some may believe that Chris McCandless went into the wild because of inspiration, I think that his primary reason was due to his family issues and emotional damage. I feel as if he was trying to run away and leave his past life. I can agree with others beliefs that he was inspired because he did read many things and was very influenced by some writings. However, the apparent problems he had with his family caused this issue because he showed many times before that he didn’t like his home life. Others even saw that he was unhappy with his parents and he wanted to leave and live what he thought to be a more peaceful life. Not only was just his parents divorce talks, his arguments with his father, and his distance he felt from his mom and dad a huge problem for him, he also was emotionally damaged by other…
In the beginning, McCandless knew he was ready to just get up and start a new journey. He kept to himself about his adventure to Alaska and did not want anyone to know where, when or why he was leaving. Chris knew he had all of the materials he needed, until it came to a plot twist when he had burned all of his money and abandoned his car anyways. Gallien, a friend of Chris, even said “There was just no talking the guy out of it… he was determined.” Other people saw determination in him as well.…
The book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a young man named Chris “Alex Supertramp” McCandless, who goes into the Alaskan wilderness, some say unprepared, and dies. In this story Krakauer includes opinions of others like how they did not exactly think highly of Chris or how they thought he was brave, but he also has his own bias on Chris McCandless. Like every other opinion, there is a reason behind why Krakauer felt the way he did toward Chris. His reason is because he feels he can relate to Chris. Seeing as how they have been through several similar experiences, Krakauer has in a sense a “weak spot” for him. He didn't believe Chris was ignorant, but was just trying to find his own person. He admired his determination…
In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer we get a first person view of Christopher Johnson McCandless life and this allows us to see what may have influenced him to take the actions he took. McCandless was an intelligent, educated and prideful individual. The book often stated that he would often get A’s with little effort. So was his adventure to Alaska a sheer act of stupidity and ignorance? I believe not, McCandless didn’t go Into the Wild due to a lackluster relationship with his parents nor was it due to the the recklessness of the teenage brain it was due to the the influences by literary heroes such as Leo Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Jack London.…