man named Chris McCandless‚ from a prosperous and loving family‚ hitchhiked across the country to Alaska. He gave $25‚000 of his savings to charity‚ left his car and nearly all of his possessions. He burned all the cash he had in his wallet‚ and created a new life. Four months later‚ his body was found in an abandoned bus. Jon Krakauer constructed a journalistic account of McCandless ’s story. Bordering on obsession‚ Krakauer looks for the clues to the mystery that is Chris McCandless. What he finds
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experience‚ observations‚ and/or reading. 1. Consider the people who befriended Chris in his journey‚ folks like Jan Burres and her boyfriend‚ Bob Wayne Westerberg Ronald Franz Explain why Chris left such a strong impression on them. 2. Chris McCandless had certain literary heroes Henry David Thoreau‚ Leo Tolstoy‚ Jack London‚ etc. Choose one or more of Chriss literary heroes and analyze what he appreciated about their work as well as what he incorporated into his own philosophy of life. (This
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Anti-Gay Murder‚” Beth Loffreda talks about the outcome of a gay young man named Matt Shepard being murdered‚ and how he became lost in the wake of the movement that followed. Similarly‚ Jon Krakauer retraces the story of a young man named Chris McCandless who died in the Alaskan wilderness in his piece “Into the Wild.” The death of a person can become gradually more complex based on if it was natural‚ accidental or murder‚ if it was sudden‚ or slow‚ or if it was intentional. These are things that are
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all behind and live out in Alaska‚ by himself for as long as he could. He was not much of a social bug but more so of a transcendentalist. He studied previous transcendentalist and copied what they have done. This mans name was Chris Mccandless ‚
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insight into the tragedy of Chris McCandless can be gained by studying predecessors cut from the same exact cloth.” (85) Chapter Nine: Krakauer compares Everett Ruess and McCandless because Ruess’ letters are very similar to Chris’ and he was also personally very similar to Chris. “Everett Ruess’s correspondence reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and McCandless.” (91) Chapter Ten: The New York Times article is more sympathetic to the death of Chris McCandless than the criticism. “His ignorance
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story of Christopher McCandless‚ in his national bestseller: Into the Wild. McCandless was always a unique and intelligent boy who saw the world differently. Into the Wild explores all aspects of McCandless’s life in order to better understand the reason why a smart‚ social boy‚ from an upper class family would put himself in extraordinary peril by living off the land in the Alaskan Bush. McCandless represents the true tragic hero that Aristotle defined. Krakauer depicts McCandless as a tragic hero by
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Synthesis Paper Chris McCandless was not happy with his life and didn’t know the truth about his own being. He decided to abandon his family and society to find his genuine self. Chris thought that he was not the person that he was supposed to be so he went on a long journey that ended in Alaska. After living alone for 112 days‚ he died due to starvation. Life is a precious gift. In life‚ we all have some responsibilities to fulfill. There’s no question that Chris abandoned those responsibilities
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Into the Wild Essay Chris McCandless stated that he wanted to “test his limits test my limits‚ I guess‚ to see what it’s like to be hungry. I’m trying to put myself in an environment where nothing’s spoon-fed.” However‚ he failed and died trying to achieve his dream of self sufficiency. Many people believe that he was a pilgrim‚ trekking for a cause through the United States‚ which is finding yourself and not just being a statistic in society. But Chris McCandless was none of things‚ but a selfish
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the story of Chris McCandless‚ a young man not participating in a war of nations‚ or a conflict with others; he‚ in his own words‚ was involved in “the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage” (Krakauer 207). The battlefield for McCandless was not a booby-trapped jungle‚ saturated with enemies and soldiers for the opposition; no‚ McCandless’s battlefield was the Alaskan frontier. Like a soldier going to war‚ McCandless knew that where he
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