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    follow the trend‚ money and possession are all valuable‚ but to McCandless‚ a twenty two year old hitchhiker‚ nothing is more important than freedom. Jon Krakauer wrote the novel Into The Wild because McCandless’s life fascinated him. Through Krakauer’s guidance‚ we are able to see McCandless’s characteristics‚ his point of view towards life‚ his reasons for leaving home‚ and similar cases to his. In some people’s eyes‚ Chris McCandless may seem as an impulsive and reckless twenty two year old who

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    Chris Mccandless Crazy

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    Into the wild is a book and a movie written by Jon Krakauer that is inspired by the actions of a college graduate named Chris McCandless. He lived a life on his own and was not the average person. Many people have different views and opinions about him and the way he chose to live his life. Shaun Callarman claims that he‚ “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. He made a lot of mistakes based on ignorance

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    Christopher McCandless Characteristics     All around the world‚ there are people who oppose a lot of societies’ modern routines and values. Some drop everything they have to go off into nature‚ most of the time with little to no gear for proper survival. This is the story of Christopher McCandless. Chris—a young‚ newly college graduate‚ angry with the upper-middle class life he had grown up in—left everything he had in the summer of 1990. Journalist‚ Jon Krakauer‚ dives into the story of Christopher

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    Chris Mccandless Analysis

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    “Into The Wild” there are many words that come to mind when describing Christopher McCandless. To Jon Krakauer Chris McCandless was rash‚ but Krakauer insists that McCandless “wasn’t a nutcase‚ he wasn’t a sociopath‚ he wasn’t an outcast. McCandless was something else - although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim perhaps”(85). The real question still remains unanswered‚ what precisely was McCandless? Chris McCandless ultimately should be described as a romantic. Chris was a free spirit‚ he was

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    Who is Chris McCandless? Have you ever wanted to escape from your old life and start a new one? Well Chris McCandless did. Chris McCandless was a transcendentalist (a person that analyzes the process of nature) that wanted to forget about his past . McCandless didn’t want to live the same life anymore‚ he was set out to show his love for nature. McCandless travelled through North America living with harsh necessities and off the land. Throughout McCandless’ adventures of “Into the Wild” he

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    Chris Mccandless Courage

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    Leaving everything and everyone that ever loved you and disappearing into the wilderness with little asks for a lot of courage. Throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild novel‚ the main figure Christopher McCandless takes a wild expedition into the heart of Alaska. In McCandless’s case surviving in the woods did not go into his favor‚ but becoming a hero did. Writing a 200 page novel is not something that an author would do for an ordinary person‚ It is done to acknowledge somebody that has been outstanding

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    Throughout Into the Wild Jon Krakauer seems to identify with Chris McCandless quite a bit‚ whether he’s talking about his own trips into the Alaskan wilderness‚ or the many others who have died doing the same as Chris. Krakauer uses quotes from people with the same view as him and stories of others to make the reader feel sympathetic towards McCandless. Krakauer appears to be quite fond of McCandless and thinks that it was chance‚ more than anything else‚ that was responsible for Chris’s

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    It is said that Chris McCandless was a bright and ignorant person according to Cellarmans argument and maybe others point of views. In my perspective I agree but disagree as well although I agree with the argument that was said by Callarmans. As I state a quote that was said by Shaun Callarman “ had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness”. As it says “Romantic silliness” he was meaning that he wanted to die in a poetic but as well as a beautiful surrounding of love and happiness

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    Compare and Contrast of Treadwell and McCandless When reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer as it documents the journey Chris McCandless took and watching the movie The Grizzly Man as it documents Timothy Treadwell’s journey to document bears I was struck by how similar the two men‚ McCandless and Treadwell‚ really were. Yes‚ there were a great many differences between the two but also by how similar they were. While both men showed how they hated modern society and felt a strong desire to live

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    Jon Krakauer wrote a book called Into the Wild where he described how Chris McCandless lived a risk-taking yet adventurous life. Also all the things McCandless experienced while on his journey to Alaska and all the great people he met along the way. There have been many speculations‚ however‚ on why Chris really went into the wild. Some may believe that McCandless went into the wild to escape a toxic relationship with his parents‚ but the real reason he left everything behind was due to his literary

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