into the wild

The struggle to find oneself is maybe the greatest thing a person can face in a lifetime. Although we can strive to be what we think we want to be or should be, we have a destiny to fulfill and we will. In the book Into the Wild the novel by Jon Krakauer and also Into the Wild the movie which was directed by one of the greatest director Sean Penn tells the story of a young man named Chris McCandless who tries to fulfill his destiny, or what he believes it is. He goes through the struggles of finding his true self, he even is able to discover some true strength that he didn’t know he had in his body and trying not to live a life his parents want for him. It shows a man struggles to find what he wants to for his life and the lengths someone will go to get what they think they need. His struggle is only an example of what we all go through in life, trying to find our identity but when his identity is mixed up from the book to the movie it hard to pin point the exact Chris McCandless. In the novel, Chris can only be described by the journal he wrote, people he met, his family and friends. He was a hard man to pin down and to discover the exact things he went through Dearing his journey. Since he was found dead, no one ever got to hear the full story of his adventures and what he did while in the wild. But the book is an attempt at putting the pieces of the puzzle together by getting all the different stories but not all reliable some people made up stories just to get there name in the news paper and also some people don’t remember exact details about the time they met Chris or they may have never met him at all. Everyone who was interviewed or talked about Chris had nothing bad to say, they said he was a really polite, nice, hard worker and they enjoyed his company but he always had a rally awkward stage whenever he met someone in the novel but it wore off a little time after. It goes through a timeline of all things and places he