I agree with the author. Chris wasn’t crazy for many reasons. He was a very smart man. He graduated college and was planning on becoming a lawyer‚ until he realized something many wish they did. He understood what he was passionate for and it wasn’t law school. Chris McCandless was a very bright man. He knew exactly what he was doing and he enjoyed it. The only thing he did wrong was underestimating the Alaskan Wilderness. “ That’s when I had a bad feeling like we wouldn’t never see Alex again
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Femi Olukanni Ms. Casey English 125 28 October 2014 Chris McCandless: The Naïve Adventurer Chris McCandless was a very educated man. He was a law school graduate and was also very adventurous. He thought he was invincible and that nothing could touch him and that was one of the main reasons why he had went off into the wilderness. He had a rebellious spirit because of the events that had occurred in his child hood and that had an influence of
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Both Cheryl Strayed and Chris McCandless embarked on a journey during their lifetime. Journeys that split anyone who heard about it into two groups. One side describes the adventurers as reckless and stupid‚ while the other side venerate their stories. Either way the stories made enough of an impact to become successful published books retelling the tales. Chris McCandless’ story was pieced together by author Jon Krakauer in the book Into the Wild. Likewise‚ Wild is the name of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir
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initiative to change their situation…” (Krakauer 56). Throughout Jon Krakauer’s book‚ Into the Wild‚ Chris McCandless sees this as a truth so many are unwilling to face. However he refuses to be one of those people who are‚ “conditioned to a life of security‚ conformity‚ and conservation” (Krakauer 57) regardless of his own highly comfortable upbringing. Throughout the book‚ Krakauer develops his thesis that Chris is not just another Bear Grylls wanna-be. In this respect the author is correct. He isn’t just
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A Wild Decision One man’s logic is another man’s senselessness. One man’s routine is another man’s torture. Chris McCandless is not far from this analogy. In the novel‚ Into the Wild by John Krakauer‚ the eccentric story of a man who was living the American dream abandons society and takes off on a wild adventure‚ traveling America with nothing more than cheap hiking boots‚ a small riffle‚ and a ten pound bag of rice. But if McCandless had such an ideal life‚ why would he desert it? Perhaps there
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Chris McCandless in Into The Wild is quite the adventurer‚ he travels all across the pacific region only to find himself a death of starvation. He felt no remorse for leaving his parents family and friends all for a life of adventure. Similar to chris in his rebel spirit was the early astronomer Galileo Galilei. He proposed theories in his era of science that seemed impossible and absurd to his peers(Marks 2). That took courage and guts to stand up against the odds and do what you love. These two
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Was Chris/Alex brave and courageous or was he arrogant and stubborn. Now this a very debated topic because not only does he show qualities of both but he has several supporting acts under both categories. He was sometimes called a hero so how can a hero be called arrogant and stubborn too. The Chris mccandless as a hero and a man. Chris mccandless was a man who did not want help from others nor did he want to depend on anyone not even his parents. So he took off on a journey that would turn out to
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right that Chris McCandless made a lot of mistakes based on ignorance‚ but McCandless was not crazy. McCandless had simply caught the wanderlust fever that has been slowly sweeping across the United States’ young adult culture. McCandless went into Alaska not to prove himself to anyone‚ but to find himself in a place that was almost completely untouched. McCandless was raised in a family that started from the bottom‚ attended college‚ and raised their children in a loving home. But McCandless was not
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Passage: “The only difference is that McCandless ended up dead with the story of his dumbassedness splashed across media. His ignorance‚ which could have been cured by a USGS quadrant and a Boy Scout manual‚ is what killed him. And while I feel bad for his parents Such willful ignorance…amounts to disrespect for the land‚ and paradoxically demonstrates the same sort of arrogance that resulted in Exxon Valdez spill just another case of underprepared‚ overconfident men bumbling around out there and
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what young Chris McCandless did. Chris was different from most people; he wanted to live his life free from society and rules. I take my own stance and believe Chris McCandless wasn’t crazy or incompetent; he just wanted to escape the chaos of the world. Chris definitely left a lasting impression on everyone he met along his journey. Everyone couldn’t get enough of him. “So I asked Alex if I could adopt him‚ if he would be my grandson” (Franz 55). Ron had taken such a liking to Chris that he wanted
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