Symbolism In Into The Wild

It was early September when two hunters arrived at the old bus that housed Chris McCandless throughout his adventure in Alaska. When Chris embarked on this expedition, he probably would’ve never realize that it was going to be his last thing he did. The novel Into the wild by John Krakauer, explains Chris’s life up until his last moments. Chris arrived at the bus in May of 1992 and lived in there for about 100 days before he passed away. Even though Chris made some decisions that were pretty questionable, the reason he left was to find himself, not commit suicide: “Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. To symbolize complete severance from his previous life, he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny.”(Krakauer 22-23). Someone who was suicidal wouldn’t want to start a complete new life for themselves
Just downstream from where the trail met the river, the Teklanika erupted into a chaos of boiling whitewater as it accelerated through the narrow gorge. Long before he could swim or paddle to the far shore, he’d be pulled into these rapids and drowned.” (Krakauer 170). Since chris still had food, he thought he could go back and stay at the camp for awhile more. This is what was what really was his downfall. He she soon ran out of food and has to resort to eating plants. Chris unfortunately made the honest mistake of mixing up the plants and accidently eating a poisonous seed. The unfortunate thing was If chris just looked a little down the stream he would’ve been able to cross the river safely and get back home safely. Up to this point Chris had so many opportunities to kill himself and crossing the river would’ve been the last chance, but instead he decided to wait until it was