Analysis Of Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

Into The Wild is a biography by Jon Krakauer. the Wild is a novel about a man named Chris McCandless. Chris is not the average person, he strives to be abnormal and live in different ways. He decides to live in Alaska within the wilderness, for months with little to know supplies. Though he dies , that didn’t matter, what did matter is that he died doing what he loved.

In the summer of 1992 Christopher McCandless was found by a group of hikers dead on Stampede trail in Fairbanks 142. After college Chris had left society donating his life savings to charity, burning the remainder of his money, left all his belongings in his 1982 Datsun B210, and presented himself as Alex. This was the beginning of Chris’s journey into the wild. He has met a lot of people along the way and they all were devastated to hear that Chris had died in Alaska from starvation. Chris was a well liked person by the people that he spoke to. A troubled childhood fueled his fire and gave him every reason to dislike his parents for what they had done to his only sister and himself as children. In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he uses ethos and logos in order to compare and contrast others experiences to Chris McCandless so that

In the first part of Chapter 8, Krakauer quotes Alaskans who had opinions about McCandless and his death.

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.

The young, Chris McCandless brought to life in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is admired immensely for his courage and noble ideas carried out his dream of living in Alaska for as long as he could. Some would say that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, or a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, others would say that he was an admirable hero. The truth lies in his motives which were to face the raw challenges of life on his own. Chris McCandless was a brave soul who chose to challenge life in real terms in order to test his personal boundaries against nature.

A man by the name of Chris Mccandless ran away from his home at the age of 22 to live a life in the wilderness of Alaska where he eventually died due to starvation. Written by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild was a book about the journey of Chris Mccandless and how he met his fate. Chris was born into a wealthy family in Virginia and was living what most people would call the American Dream. However, Chris Mccandless contradicted that notion and was not happy with his life; as a result he ran away. He was not happy with his life in Virginia because he was sick of his life filled with materialistic items and wanted to hide from all of them. Also, his parents were abusive so he wanted to get as far away from them as possible. Lastly, he was living a filtered life in his wealthy town and Chris wanted to run away from his privileged life and see the real world. Chris ran away from home because he was not happy with his life there, wanted hide from his family, and wanted to hide from the norms of society.

How can what one sacrifices define who they are? For most, sacrificing junk food or In the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless sacrifices intimate relationships and his own life in order to achieve ultimate freedom.

In the book, "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless wanted to disappear from the American society. McCandless disappeared and traveled through the country by himself. In 1990, a group of Alaskan hunters discovered his body in the Denali National Park. Chris McCandless has a INFP personality type because he was an open-minded, humane, and curious person. People who have the INFP type, typically are in search of their purpose in life.

With a silent yet inescapable list of expectations, the pressure of society, and his damaged parents, one could believe that the adventure he embarked on was a way to remove himself from his destructive environment. However Chris had never experienced independence in his life. He felt separated from everyone with few friends and a well-off family that was tragically broken, and

This is one reason why he decided to leave home; he wanted to experience the life of not having anything to his name, this is also shown through out the book during his journeys, however this not the only reason why he left home. The ultimate reason why he left home was because of what his father had done. A cab driver name Stuckey whom helped McCandless reach Alaska elaborated that McCandless said that he found out that his father was living a bigamist life and that it went against Chris’s beliefs (159). This was ultimately one of the reasons why Chris left home and had no feelings towards his parents. This exhibits the hatred and no remorseful attitude McCandless had through out the book towards his parents, especially his father. However, this attitude towards his father and civilization is justified completely when he decided to leave home and take on the wilderness.

     During Chris’s journey he never really opens up to anyone about his family. He doesn’t really show any affection towards them and if any it would be toward his sister Carnie. He writes in a letter to her stating that he is going to divorce his parents. The last time his parents saw him was after his graduation. Chris told his parents “ I think I’m going to disappear for a while” and that is the last they ever heard of him again.

Throughout the novel, Christopher McCandless’s character changed over time. Up to McCandless’s death, he wanted to live with the wild and to be away from civilization as far as possible. He changes his mind when he writes “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED” (189). His purpose of living in the wild is to live with freedom and do whatever he wishes to do. However, he realizes he was a “refuge in nature” (189) and intended to abandon his solitary life and rejoin the human community. It is assumed that McCandless died a preventable death because of his unpreparedness, but it is now undeniable that his adversity is what caused his mortality. “…McCandless simple had the misfortune to eat moldy seeds. An innocent mistake, it was nevertheless

After one graduates from college; there are several things that happen. Generally people go out and find a job and become useful to society. They go out and find a nice girl to marry and have children. Life becomes more or less systematic and repetitive. Chris gave up all of these to chase a wild dream that inevitably led to his death. Chris was a selfish child. He exhibited many of the

Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer tells of a young man named Chris McCandless who 1deserted his college degree and all his worldly possessions in favor of a primitive transient life in the wilderness. Krakauer first told the story of Chris in an article in Outside Magazine, but went on to write a thorough book, which encompasses his life in the hopes to explain what caused him to venture off alone into the wild. McCandless’ story soon became a national phenomenon, and had many people questioning why a “young man from a well-to-do East Coast family [would] hitchhike to Alaska” (Krakauer i). Chris comes from an affluent household and has parents that strived to create a desirable life for him and his sister. As Chris grows up, he

In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explores the human fascination with the purpose of life and nature. Krakauer documents the life and death of Chris McCandless, a young man that embarked on an Odyssey in the Alaskan wilderness. Like many people, McCandless believed that he could give his life meaning by pursuing a relationship with nature. He also believed that rejecting human relationships, abandoning his materialistic ways, and purchasing a book about wildlife would strengthen his relationship with nature. However, after spending several months enduring the extreme conditions of the Alaskan wilderness, McCandless’ beliefs begin to work against him. He then accepts that he needs humans, cannot escape materialism, and can