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    Why did the person known as Chris McCandless leave nearly all of his possessions behind cut ties with his family and‚ start traveling all over the country and also Mexico? In the first chapter of the novel shortly before he gets to that fateful spot in Alaska Chris tells Gallien “How I feed myself is none of the government’s business. Fuck their stupid rules.” Now for someone like McCandless to say this to someone he just met not too long ago says something about who the story is going be about.

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    We all have to make tough decisions in ours lives. As for Chris McCandless‚ the main character of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ it was easy. He knew exactly what he wanted and that’s what he went for. Many people assume that Chris had a mental problem but he truly just wanted to be on his own‚ doing the things that he loved. While it is true there may have been smarter choices that could have been made‚ in regards to how he lived‚ however‚ it does not mean that he should have never gone into the

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    What an interesting morning outing. The breakfast before the pilgrimage started out decently normal‚ until the introductions began. First to introduce himself was a very dirty man‚ George Pine. George was the first to introduce himself and after speaking with him briefly I realized why. George Pine was a very loud an outspoken individual. He associates with Jeb Bush and the Walnut brothers‚ who are all farmers just like George. As I spoke with him‚ however‚ I caught on very quickly to his temper

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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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    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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    In 1992 a man began his four month journey of leaving everything behind‚ college‚ family‚ and all his relationships to start a completely new life in the wild. In the book The Wild by Jon Krakauer‚ Chris McCandless recreates a new life for himself. while following his long journey‚ Chris renamed himself Alexander Supertramp and met many people along the way like Gallion‚ Franz‚ and Westerberg. Although some people think that Chris’s death has purpose‚ really Chris died in vain‚ alone in the woods

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    The first crossing of the Rio Grande in Part I is symbolic of a rebirth for John Grady’s life. “They crossed the river under a white quartermoon naked and pale and thin atop their horses… They rode up out of the river among the willows and rode singlefile upstream through the shallows onto a long gravel beach where they took off their hats and turned and looked back at the country they’d left” (McCarthy 45). John Grady has experienced a rebirth in this moment. He looks back at Texas grounds‚ which

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    Brian Robeson‚ a 13-year-old from New York has boarded a bush plane directed towards Northern Canada to visit his father 1 month after his parent’s divorce. He only bears a hatchet that he received from his mother as a gift for the summer. The divorce is affecting his life as it plagues his thoughts‚ but a flying lesson taught by the pilot takes his mind off the divorce. While Brian is managing the plane the pilot starts to have pains all over his torso‚ the cause being a heart attack. Brian pilots

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    The feud over the narrow‚ sickly strip of land “stolen” away from the Znaeym family had lasted for decades. Tensions had grown‚ and now‚ standing on the edge of the unusually restless trees‚ Ulrich felt that he could finally do something. Georg Znaeym was trespassing in that forest‚ and he would get him at last. In “The Interlopers”‚ the author‚ Saki‚ uses irony to support the theme that no matter how much power a person has‚ nature can always win in the end. In the beginning of the story‚ Ulrich

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    Life has its way of getting so crazy to the point where it makes people want to 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

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