Discrimination In Into The Wild

There are many people that have been and that are still being discriminated by the actions they took or are taking. For example, Jon Krakauer, the author, himself was discriminated when nobody believed him when he had told them that he had climbed the Devil’s Thumb. Those were actions he took that nobody seemed to believe. In the novel “Into the Wild”, Jon Krakauer introduces the readers to what people have to say about Christopher McCandless. Shaun Callarman, an opinionist, states McCandless as bright, ignorant, crazy, and also says he has no common sense. However, not everybody views McCandless the same.
Some say that McCandless was bright because of his intelligence, but he wasn't bright when it came to the wilderness. McCandless had no type of experience in the wild whatsoever. According to what the author said “Gallien reached behind the seat, pulled out an old pair of
In some ways he had common sense because he knew what he wanted and where he was going to go each day. For example, “He told Westerberg he planned on staying until April 15…”, which explains to the readers that McCandless had his things sorted out. Meanwhile, other readers have different perspectives on how McCandless had no common sense. As Krakauer quotes “he changed his name, gave the entire balance of twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet” and this example gives the audience time to believe that McCandless actually had no common sense. Chris made a good choice in donating his earnings to charity, but the part that makes no sense is that he burned the rest of him money. He could've gave that money away to someone in need, but instead decided to burn it. He had money, yet he wasn't wise enough to use it for certain needs. For this reason, I can say that McCandless had and didn't have common sense, at certain