Chris McCandless was somewhat troubled, but I didn’t see him having mental health issues. Reading about McCandless’ early life, it looks like the transition between his mother’s first marriage to her second could’ve been what shaped some of his views. If anything, Chris McCandless was enlightened and knew what he wanted when he started his journey in Into the Wild. Being a fan of both Emerson and Thoreau, I believe Chris McCandless was looking to see the Earth as a transcendentalist would. Even when a stranger he came into contact with offered something to his benefit he would rarely accept. Chris McCandless wanted to do things on his own while on his journey.…
“If you want something in this life ,reach out and grab it “ (Krakauer) . Due to Chris McCandless he was trying to find a true meaning to life. In order for him to understand himself and find himself in the world he choice to leave society. In the book “Into The Wild “ I believe that Chris McCandless was a fearless young man . Chris followed his dreams by going into the wild to get out of society .The majority of the human population will disagree with Chris choices and think he made poor choices .…
Through out the book, Chris is prompted to make many small decisions in order to determine how he will live the rest of his life. From the moment he decided to go onto the road from Virginia to the West Coast, then landing in Alaska, he made small mistakes due to ignorance to fine details. During the most part of the book, Christopher McCandless is struggling without himself knowing of it. Many people he sees and meets along the way have warned him about the dangers of traversing the wilderness, alone with very little supplies and experience. After journeying into the deep Alaskan wilderness, Chris's actions show that with ignorance to small details, suffering will soon follow.…
“Serious stuff, like he was baring his soul, kind of. He said he could tell me things that he couldn’t tell the others. You could see something was gnawing at him. It was pretty obvious he didn’t get along with his family, but he never said much about any of them except Carine, his little sister. He said they were pretty close". Overall I would say that Chris was ignorant, arrogant, selfish and a brave young man, simply because he was ignorant because he didn't know that some of the berries might kill him and these mistakes and ignorance lead him to his death, but overall for young who just graduated and got on his own in the wild I would say that he did a pretty good job on surviving for four months, "Said he didn't want to see a single person, no airplanes, no sign of civilization. He wanted to prove himself that he could make it on his own without anybody's help". he will always be remembered as a young brave man, who was seeking his own…
In the book Into the Wild, the author identifies the theme of McCandless’ elusiveness of his identity leading to the isolation of himself, resulting in costing him his life. Krakauer continuously writes about how McCandless wants to find his identity through traveling and exploring the world and what it has to offer. Though his travels, McCandless finds that in order to achieve in discovering himself, he must dis-attach himself from any relationship he has with anyone and can only stay in places for two weeks at a time. While affable with the strangers he meets on the road, McCandless breaks off all contact with his family. This isolation is a key component in the story, and therefore is also a huge part of the theme. Motifs used in the book…
Jon Krakauer writes “McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to… A pilgrim, perhaps”(85). I agree that Chris McCandless is some sort of a pilgrim. He isn’t arrogant or selfish or anything. He is seeking something in the wilderness and I believe that he is searching for the meaning of his life. Everyone wants to know what your life means and McCandless just has a weird way of doing that. He is exploring everywhere he goes and the farther he goes, the more he finds himself. Chris is not crazy nor a nutcase, he just wants to find out why his life has happened the way it has.…
After reading the book “Into The Wild” there are many words that come to mind when describing Christopher McCandless. To Jon Krakauer Chris McCandless was rash, but Krakauer insists that McCandless “wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an outcast. McCandless was something else - although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim perhaps”(85). The real question still remains unanswered, what precisely was McCandless? Chris McCandless ultimately should be described as a romantic. Chris was a free spirit, he was a counterculture adventurer who escaped the shackles of prescribed society and lived for the moment. He ended his relationship with endless consumption and simply went out and experienced people and places for what they really…
Logically I will begin to observe and examine the decisions McCandles’s made that prematurely ended his life. McCandles was for one dissatisfied by the way he was living within society, he would rather live as far away from our society then be surrounded by materialistic things and authority. Additionally, Christopher was alienated but the fact that people such as his parents did not understand him, however, loved him unconditionally. Christopher rejected materialism; when he leaves his parents and donates all his savings to charity, abandons his car and burns his money in the desert these acts lead to his believed ultimate…
The most important place in Chris McCandless’s life is quite possibly the place he died, the fateful Fairbanks bus number 142. The bus is situated in a clearing in the Alaskan wilderness, surrounded by tall trees, undisturbed by the advances of modern life. While the painting is based on an actual image of bus 142, the vast emptiness of the clearing around the bus symbolizes how alienated McCandless felt by his community for his atypical beliefs. The brush growing around the bus and in the corner of the clearing represents modern views trying to invade his personal set of values. In the background, the fir trees represent all the different people in McCandless’s life and how powerful their influences on him. The bigger trees are people like Jim Gallien and Wayne Westerberg, both…
Selflessness Jon Krakauer once said, “ A man who has given away small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch, and map, and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the wilderness”(Krakauer 71). A lot of people believed that Chris did not care about anyone but himself, or they thought he did not think about consequences. Chris just wanted to do what felt right in the moment and what made him feel like he was fulfilling his life. Like Krakauer, Chris did what he felt like he needed to do to show people he can do anything he put his mind to. Chris did many things that made people ask if he cared more about other people rather than his own safety.…
The journey of Chris McCandless is one you can draw many conclusions from. Some might say he was extraordinarily stupid while others might say he was a man who lived an honest life. Chris was neither of those things. Chris McCandless was simultaneously searching for life’s meaning.…
The purpose of Chris McCandless’s journey was for him to find himself through the simplicity of nature. Growing up, his parents were controlling and when he graduated from college he set out on his journey. Chris took his car and went north. In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explains his thoughts and reasons behind Chris’s choice to go into the wild. “McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his soul” (183). He was in search of who he was and what he wanted to become.…
One may say that Chris McCandless was an arrogant fool considering the decisions he made throughout his short life. Others may say he was an incredible inspiration and should be honored beyond his death for his choices. McCandless may have made some questionable choices within his journey, yet he was nothing less of an inspiration to those who feel that they have not ‘found themselves’ and deserves respect for the impact he has made. Although he is respectable, he also had ample flaws that may have led him to his tragic ending.…
In my opinion on what motivated Chris McCandless to venture off into the wild was his need to get out of mainstream society and to not live the life that was originally planned out for him. On his journey to Mt. McKinley, Alaska, he met some friends. One in particular was Ron Franz who was widowed and life was changed because of Chris’ advice towards him. Chris McCandless did end up making it to Alaska and even lived in the wild for 118 days, but unfortunately died of starvation.…
One may say that Chris McCandless was an arrogant fool considering the decisions he made throughout his short life. Others may say he was an incredible inspiration and should be honored beyond his death for his choices. McCandless may have made some questionable choices within his journey, yet he was nothing less of an inspiration to those who feel that they have not ‘found themselves’ and deserves respect for the impact he has made. Although he is respectable, he also had ample flaws that may have led him to his tragic ending.…