English II H‚ Section 1 27 February 2014 The Chris McCandless Story: The Author’s Perspective Christopher Johnson McCandless was an American hiker who adopted the alias Alexander Supertramp and ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with little food and equipment‚ hoping to live simply for a time in solitude. Little did his family and friends know‚ but when Chris stepped into the Alaskan wilderness‚ he would never come out alive. Jon Krakauer documents Chris’s journey and the people
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Chris McCandless Chris McCandless was a young man from California who loved to be outdoors and was always very athletic. He always had the desire and ambition to do things on his own. However this was a positive and negative side to his personality because it would cost him his life by wanting to live this way. In school Chris was always a very smart student who had good grades and could have gone to college if he chose to. His parents wanted him to attend college but he felt it wasn’t for him so
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talks about the journey Chris decided to take‚ leaving behind his parents and his dreams. He graduated from Emory University as a top student/athlete only to decide he was tired of everything and decided to embark in a journey into the Alaskan wilderness. Shaun Callarman states‚”I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense‚ and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness”. I think that Chris McCandless was not an idiot and ignorant
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The Motives Behind Chris McCandless Chris McCandless was a young‚ smart‚ and courageous man who seemed to have everything he could have ever asked for. Even though everything seemed to be going in the right direction for McCandless‚ there was always something inside him that was never really quite right. Some people would argue and say that the reason he walked into the wild was because he was just some reckless‚ young kid looking for attention‚ but I believe a very different story. I believe the
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the many who left everything behind‚ Chris McCandless motive on why he went on this journey. Krakauer wanted the reader to know that McCandless represents the adventure‚ independence‚ and weakness of every human being. Chris McCandless is a young wealthy man who hitchhiked from the East Coast to Alaska after graduating from university. McCandless dropped out of sight‚ abandoned most of his possessions along with burning and giving away all the money
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Escaping Reality Chris McCandless was seeking to go into the wilderness‚ but the question we ask ourselves is why? Do we think Chris McCandless found his reasons why he wanted to go into the wilderness before he died? In reality‚ Chris loved his family no matter what‚ which makes sense of course that’s his family. McCandless wanted to view life in a different point of view and perspective. He was much more fond of the wilderness than his very own home. Chris was taking it day by day not knowing
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everything for a new life? Christopher McCandless made that decision and many others on his two year journey to Alaska. He made these decisions with certain traits that he possesses‚ whether they were strengths that helped him or weaknesses that lead to his unfortunate death by starvation. Of these traits that he has‚ three are independence‚ over-confidence‚ and maturity. These traits have majorly affected how he acted in each situation. To start off‚ Chris McCandless was very independent. He especially
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In the book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris McCandless gets portrayed as adventurous. He is adventurous in the way that he just left his family on a whim‚ and started traveling on his cross-country adventure. “I got the impression that this Alaska escapade was going to be his last big adventure” (Krakauer‚ 1996‚ pg 66) said Wayne Westerberg when describing how Chris talked about his then future trip plans. This shows that he was planning this big adventure for a long time and the Alaskan
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a young man named Chris McCandless who left his old life behind to hitchhike across America. He burned the money in his pockets and abandoned his car in the desert. Krakauer tells the story of Chris’s journey to Alaska where he was found dead in an abandoned bus‚ and much more. Chris McCandless’s story is one of courage and passion; however‚ it also gives the impression that he was irresponsible and ungrateful. He had many character traits that one would both
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decisions of an individual named Chris McCandless. The book Into the Wild‚ by Jon Krakauer‚ is the story of a man named Chris McCandless that ventures into the great Alaskan wilderness to seek meaning in his true self. Chris is a twenty-four year old from Virginia who graduated from Emory University with a 3.72 GPA. He had a troubled relationship with his family and disagreed
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