Chris Mccandless Crazy Essay

“He possessed grand-some would say grandiose- spiritual ambitions. According to the moral absolutism that characterises McCandless’s beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome was ensured isn’t a challenge at all” (182). Mr. Callarman was 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 anything like his peers, or the people of his generation because he refused to spend more time then he had to on trivial matters. To McCandless, trivial matters were technological equipment, college, romantic involvement, and abiding by the norms established by society. Those things made him seem dangerous, but really they made him more fragile because he had a higher plan for himself than the rest of the world did.
According to the text, at one point in his life, Chris would pick up homeless men off the streets and set them up in his family’s trailer, or buy hamburgers to feed them with. In society, those kinds of things are considered weird and mentally unbalanced, but in reality, those acts of unique kindness for those who did not have a home were humanitarian like. McCandless served the people of society even though those above or at his class couldn’t bring themselves to fully accept every quirk and flaw he