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Chris Mccandless Compassion In Into The Wild

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Christian Guerrero Mrs.Rocha
English 2nd
Into The Wild In the book Into the wild a man named Chris McCandless from El Segundo California would do anything to benefit himself. Chris McCandless decided to give up his 25,000 dollars from his savings and give it to a charity. Chris also cut up all his cards and burned all his belongings including his car. Although Some people may believe that Chris McCandless went into the wild because he had mental illnesses and others believe that he was going through some bad home situations. I believe that McCandless compassion is the most enigmatic part of his story. It is clearly central to his personality for his whole life he spends in weeknights in high school bringing burgers to homeless people and yet he shows almost no compassion in dealing with his parents once he is in college. He willingly and intentionally leaves them in a state of unhappiness while he travels, and his disregard for his own safety and wellbeing. …show more content…

Chris also looks to transcend into a greater level of understanding of himself and the world Even Everett Ruess, a figure that krakauer compares to McCandless because of his similarity journey and life story, he writes a letter about his adventure. Like on page (91) by saying i have always been unsatisfied with life. He also went into the wild to be free. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution (163) Chris was not satisfied with the world so he felt really fulfilled going into the

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