There are many debates on whether or not Chris McCandless was a hero. Jon Krakauer sees him as a tragic hero who lived the unmediated life that he wanted to and which he died trying to. Many Alaskans see him as an unprepared fool who didn’t see what the wilderness really was in which he wanted to commune with. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer goes through the story of Chris McCandless and his adventure into the Alaskan wilderness. He retraces the steppes that Chris that led up to him going missing
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Chris wasn’t crazy for many reasons. He was a very smart man. He graduated college and was planning on becoming a lawyer‚ until he realized something many wish they did. He understood what he was passionate for and it wasn’t law school. Chris McCandless was a very bright man. He knew exactly what he was doing and he enjoyed it. The only thing he did wrong was underestimating the Alaskan Wilderness. “ That’s when I had a bad feeling like we wouldn’t never see Alex again.” He was very driven and
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Chris McCandless Character Analysis One may say that Chris McCandless was an arrogant fool considering the decisions he made throughout his short life. Others may say he was an incredible inspiration and should be honored beyond his death for his choices. McCandless may have made some questionable choices within his journey‚ yet he was nothing less of an inspiration to those who feel that they have not ‘found themselves’ and deserves respect for the impact he has made. Although he is respectable
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escape their life and head off into the wild. Chris McCandless was no stranger to this‚ in April of 1992‚ McCandless began what he called his “great Alaskan odyssey” (Krakauer 203). McCandless left everything he knew behind and wondered off into the wild. People ask what makes one want to leave everything behind and just live off the country. Looking at McCandless’s motives for heading off into the wild‚ it makes sense to at least try. McCandless told a man by the name Alex Stuckey “he didn’t want
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Do you ever wonder what it’d be like to escape society and live off the wild? That is exactly what young Chris McCandless did. Chris was different from most people; he wanted to live his life free from society and rules. I take my own stance and believe Chris McCandless wasn’t crazy or incompetent; he just wanted to escape the chaos of the world. Chris definitely left a lasting impression on everyone he met along his journey. Everyone couldn’t get enough of him. “So I asked Alex if I could adopt
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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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Christopher “Jack London” McCandless Anna Wilson English III Honors Petrulla 26 November 2014 Wilson 2 Two people in two generations so different‚ yet so alike. Jack London‚ an American author‚ wrote books like Call of The Wild and White Fang . Both were about adventure and discovering something and that is exactly what Christopher McCandless did. Christopher McCandless was an adventurer and a seeker of himself. Christopher read London’s novels and
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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 anything
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Chris McCandless was a man of ideals and experience. Many people may disagree but because Chris followed and read transcendentalist authors and books‚ he learned his own truth. I agree with the author in how Chris is not wrong‚ but was reckless enough to not realize it sooner Firstly‚ Chris disliked assistance and wanted to do things himself. Tramping is too easy with all this money. “My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal...” and “No thanks anyway
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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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