While Chris is distracted by the allure of the wilderness, he doesn't account for its harshness. He is a well educated person that graduated from college, but lacks the common sense it takes to survive in the wild. He is too overconfident in himself and doesn't take in the reality of the preparations he should have taken to live in the wild. Chris McCandless wouldn't have survived the length he did in the wild if it wasn't for kind hearted people and strangers along the way that had aided him on his journey. …show more content…
Before Chris’s journey he found out that his father was married and had a kid with another woman while he was raising him. This ultimately grew a thick rage inside of him and he wanted to escape to the life he was at and turned into a place he would seek refuge, the wilderness. He thought of the wild as if a pain killer to help aid his problem. Upon entering and living among the wilderness he found himself in great solitude, that he believed would cause him have a different view of the