Analysis Of Chris Mccandless
Depending on who you might ask, Chris McCandless was a searcher of life’s meaning, or he is nothing more than some unprepared nut that suffered a deserving fate in the Alaskan wilderness.. Those people don’t stop to think about him, they brush him off as an ordinary hitchhiker and think nothing more. Krakauer explains McCandless’s whole journey as well as who he was before the trip. I can see now that Chris McCandless is anything but a nut; he was a dreamer and wished to see what the world had to offer him. McCandless, if anything, is odd and Krakauer states it best that he could be a pilgrim (60)
Who was McCandless exactly? It’s as if he was a person who shared and helped but then backed away when things got too evolving from him. Chris believed throughout his travels that the only thing a person needs to be happy was themselves and nothing more. He reassures this in a letter he writes to Ron Franz stating his point is, “that you do …show more content…
Well, as he writes on the back of a page, “I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!”(136). I imagine spending as long as he did alone he had time to think about his life, go over the events that lead him to where he was. Although i cannot say for certain, I believe in his retrospective of his life, he found something that he didn’t see before. He spent the last years of his life gazing at natures beauty, and in his final days i feel as though he finally saw the beauty of the human world.
One of the definitions of a pilgrim is someone on a religious journey. Now i doubt that Chris’s journey had anything to do with, but i feel as though it was more of a spiritual one; went out into the world to find who he is and what he can do by himself. I believe he achieved this but his fate never let him put his newfound knowledge to use. I feel as though Chris McCandless is sort of a modern day pilgrim, not of the map, but of the
Who was McCandless exactly? It’s as if he was a person who shared and helped but then backed away when things got too evolving from him. Chris believed throughout his travels that the only thing a person needs to be happy was themselves and nothing more. He reassures this in a letter he writes to Ron Franz stating his point is, “that you do …show more content…
Well, as he writes on the back of a page, “I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!”(136). I imagine spending as long as he did alone he had time to think about his life, go over the events that lead him to where he was. Although i cannot say for certain, I believe in his retrospective of his life, he found something that he didn’t see before. He spent the last years of his life gazing at natures beauty, and in his final days i feel as though he finally saw the beauty of the human world.
One of the definitions of a pilgrim is someone on a religious journey. Now i doubt that Chris’s journey had anything to do with, but i feel as though it was more of a spiritual one; went out into the world to find who he is and what he can do by himself. I believe he achieved this but his fate never let him put his newfound knowledge to use. I feel as though Chris McCandless is sort of a modern day pilgrim, not of the map, but of the