Argumentative Essay On Into The Wild

Happiness is worth more than all the money in the world, even it is worth dying for. In the novel, Into the Wild from 1997, Jon Krakauer reveals a young man’s, Chris McCandless, life risking journey to Alaska where McCandless had planned to rediscover himself: However, this adventure became fatal and throughout the novel Krakauer uses his own life experience and other people’s positive relationship with Chris to defend him from the public, even though Chris was called an idiot because his dream ended his life. Krakauer develops a strong defense for McCandless by using McCandless’ family background, relationships he built along the way, Chris’ struggles, and other explorers with similar experiences to protect him from the negative feedback readers developed by reading Chris’s story . The purpose of this novel is to change the reader's negative opinions towards the article because when it was published readers believed that his purpose was to be a rebellious kid and seek attention from others,
In order to transport himself he would hitchhike his way to different destinations. Among those many rides and the many people, he meet the last man he would ever see before he went on the journey he had always dreamed of, Jim Gallien. Gallien was completely impressed that Chris, even in the conditions he appeared to be in, was a highly educated man. However, for the intelligence he had, he had a great stupidity. “‘He wasn’t carrying anywhere near as much food and gear as you’d expect a guy to be carrying for that kind of trip,’ Gallien recalls” (Krakauer 4). If someone was to see this young man they wouldn’t be able to assume he was going on a long adventure in the middle of the woods. He carried nothing but a backpack with ten pounds of rice and an old caliber. To conclude his stupidity no money, no compass, and cheap boots that could crumble into pieces with a single