Femi Olukanni Ms. Casey English 125 28 October 2014 Chris McCandless: The Naïve Adventurer Chris McCandless was a very educated man. He was a law school graduate and was also very adventurous. He thought he was invincible and that nothing could touch him and that was one of the main reasons why he had went off into the wilderness. He had a rebellious spirit because of the events that had occurred in his child hood and that had an influence of
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Krakauer talks about an adventurous young man that travels into the Alaskan wilderness pursuing the right lifestyle for himself. Chris McCandless was a modern day nomad from the 20th century looking for a way to live a free life. Chris found out that his father never divorced his first wife causing an impact on his life that helps with his decision to live a nomadic life. Chris is very intelligent young man but at the same time an arrogant one too who has taken on a path to travel to the Alaska and live
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Chris McCandless in Into The Wild is quite the adventurer‚ he travels all across the pacific region only to find himself a death of starvation. He felt no remorse for leaving his parents family and friends all for a life of adventure. Similar to chris in his rebel spirit was the early astronomer Galileo Galilei. He proposed theories in his era of science that seemed impossible and absurd to his peers(Marks 2). That took courage and guts to stand up against the odds and do what you love. These two
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Despite the conflicting public opinion‚ Chris McCandless succeeded in his goal to survive in the wilderness and taught the world valuable lessons in the process. Chris McCandless “probably died on August 18th‚ 112 days after he had walked into the wild.” (119‚ Krakauer) He survived with very little gear and food‚ even though he was essentially cut off from the world. To have lived for a little over three months totally self-sufficient is impressive. Chris’s goal was to be independent and live off
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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
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Passage: “The only difference is that McCandless ended up dead with the story of his dumbassedness splashed across media. His ignorance‚ which could have been cured by a USGS quadrant and a Boy Scout manual‚ is what killed him. And while I feel bad for his parents Such willful ignorance…amounts to disrespect for the land‚ and paradoxically demonstrates the same sort of arrogance that resulted in Exxon Valdez spill just another case of underprepared‚ overconfident men bumbling around out there and
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1 November 2012 Many people have come to the conclusion that Chris McCandless’ untimely death was a result of his arrogant nature or a possible psychological disorder. However‚ his death was caused by a simple mistake‚ his lack of geographical knowledge‚ and his desire to find himself. When Krakauer’s moving article in Outside magazine was published‚ copious amounts of hate mail was received regarding McCandless’ cause of death. Initially it was believed that he mistook two similar
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1996‚ and is based on a true story of a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless who was born in February 12‚ 1968 in El Segundo‚ California. Hunters found his body inside a bus in September 6th‚ 1992 in the Alaskan wilderness. Christopher McCandless came from a wealthy family. He was very smart‚ talented‚ kind hearted and nature loving human. His family was always proud of him when it came up to his education. McCandless was a man of his own‚ as early age he used his own mind when making decisions
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Both Cheryl Strayed and Chris McCandless embarked on a journey during their lifetime. Journeys that split anyone who heard about it into two groups. One side describes the adventurers as reckless and stupid‚ while the other side venerate their stories. Either way the stories made enough of an impact to become successful published books retelling the tales. Chris McCandless’ story was pieced together by author Jon Krakauer in the book Into the Wild. Likewise‚ Wild is the name of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir
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Into the Wild Chris McCandless was a young man who lived a strange‚ adventurous life. I disagree with Krakauer‚ McCandless seems to be a crazy person. Chris’s craziness is clearly shown throughout the book. He managed to survive one-hundred and thirteen days in the wild‚ but in the end he did die. Chris McCandless went into the wild to escape corrupt society. He also did it because he fell in love with nature through his readings of books by authors such as Charles Dickens and Jack
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