Who Is Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild

Chris McCandless was a very unique individual. In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he tries his best to make sense of McCandless’ journey to the Alaskan wilderness. However, he never really figured out what McCandless’ purpose of the trip was. Looking at McCandless’ life throughout the book, I believe that Chris McCandless went on his journey to find happiness within his own life and did achieve it in the end.

Along his journey, McCandless relied on self-trust and self-reliance in everything he did. When Wayne Westerberg offered to buy Chris a plane ticket to fly to Alaska to save him a lot of trouble and time Chris replied by saying, “No, I want to hitch north. Flying would be cheating. It would wreck the whole trip” (Krakauer 67). This is a perfect example of Chris showing self-trust and self-reliance, Chris is showing that he knows he can make it to Alaska on his own ability and doesn’t want to ruin his trip or his experience by relying on others to get there. McCandless is a stubborn individual who refuses to take help from anyone. This can be seen by other certain examples from the novel such as Bob and Jan Burres, a dating couple who live in a trailer park called the

--These words gives a clear and rational explanation of McCandless’s decision to venture into the wilderness. It shows that he was allured to the wild journey because of the pleasure it would provide him, tempted by a primal desire that could not be fulfilled by a mere human.

In Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild, the main character, Chris McCandless, seeks nature so that he can find a sense of belonging and the true meaning of who he is. However, it is the essence of nature that eventually takes his life away from him. At the end of his life, he is discovers his purpose and need of other people. After Chris McCandless death in Alaska, Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to reflect on the journey that McCandless makes. Krakauer protrays McCandless as a young man who is reckless, selfish, and arrogant, but at the same time, intelligent, determined, independent, and charismatic. Along with the irony that occurs in nature, these characteristics are the several factors that contribute to McCandless death.

Chris McCandless was a man who had everything to have a successful life. However, Chris McCandless decided to leave it all behind. Chris thought that he was going to go leave all society behind to go live in the wild. Chris thought that it was going to be very hard. Krakauer He was arrogant and ignorance toward the nature and society. In Into the Wild Chris leaves his life behind to live a life alone in the wild. In Into the Wild Krakauer’s message from Chris’s journey is for people to never get too ignorant or too confident because anything can go wrong at anytime.

In the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless takes a wild journey. Although some believe that his journey and thought process was noble and courageous, he was actually extremely fatuous throughout his journey. Many people that Chris met along the way made remarkable attempts at making him aware of the dangers that he would surely face in Alaska. Chris McCandless knowingly stepped into the treacherous wild without being prepared for what reality would throw his way.

What drove him to the wild was his favorite authors. He was an inspiring person, he wrote things that were inspiring to other people. “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism...but in reality nothing is more damaging of the adventurous spirit within a mand than secure future.” (pg.57) He wasn’t lacking knowledge, he read a lot, and some of his authors had wrote book about the wild. There was no reason for Callarman to say that he had no common sense and he was ignorant. Every person he had met like him and said that he was a great friend. Franz was an eighty year old and that he had met and Franz said that he seem intelligent. He cared about Chris, he said he was to nice of a kid to be living in the hot springs the people who drink. “Look, Mr. Franz, you don’t need to worry about me. I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I’m living like think by choice.” (pg.51) He knew what he was doing, and the troubles he was going to face. He wasn’t clueless to anything. “He was smart. He’d figured out how to paddle a canoe down to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of that on his own, and I felt sure he’d figure Alaska too.” (pg.46) He was smart enough to do everything on his own without someone telling him what

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.

Everyone in life, has a crazy dream or some journey beyond normal; rare or even impossible. In the novel, Into The Wild, McCandless had a dream: to find himself. He wished to travel to the wilderness of Alaska by himself. That was McCandless’ dream. The only thing that really made him stand out or make a commotion, was that he actually pursued his dream… but blindsided. Callarman believes McCandless was bright, and ignorant at the same time, and I somewhat agree with him. McCandless had no business in Alaska by himself. He had no survival skills and it was very foolish of him to have gone so blindly. He passed up many opportunities and life changing decisions for this journey. I do not believe it was ignorant of McCandless to have pursued his

Adventurer and journalist, Jon Krakauer, in his novel, Into the Wild, shares the story of McCandless’ journey. Krakauer’s purpose is to convey that McCandless was in fact an idealist and not insane to his Outdoor Magazine readers. In chapters 1-7, McCandless encounters several people as he goes along his journey. Krakauer uses the rhetorical strategy of characterization to explain McCandless’ personality to the readers.

Krakauer, the author of, Into the Wild, was able to discover, through mass interviews of the people McCandless met and letters McCandless wrote, personality and the reasons why he left his humble home life, to hitchhike into the unknown. Throughout the novel we learn that McCandless was a very intelligent man, who was raised in a proper household where education came first. He obtained his degree, at the will of his parents, at Emory University. Throughout his childhood McCandless had everything, a loving family, a warm home to live in, and was able to get an education. In a letter McCandless wrote to a friend that he made on his journey he states, “the very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new

In John Krakauer's novel, Into The Wild, the reader is presented with a captivating character named Chris McCandless, or Alex Supertramp. Krakauer noted that if McCandless “wasn’t incompetent-he wouldn’t have last 113 days.” Although one could agree with Krakauer when stating that McCandless is not crazy, or an outcast, one could also argue that he is still incompetent in some ways, which is seen in how he interacts with nature, rather than with people. McCandless had a unique charisma and charm to him that made him get friends easily and as a result had a strong effect on people. The quote, “the more they talked, the less Alex struck Gallien as a nutcase,” shows how other people perceived him.

Krakauer creates suspense by withholding McCandless’s fate until the very end of the passage. When Chris McCandless ventured into the wilderness alone he ended up trapped due to the heavy flow of the Teklanika’s River blocking his path. The narrator theorizes that perhaps McCandless was unconcerned with his only escape route being cut off due to his adequate

McCandless too felt this need for refuge from his family, as he didn't grow up in typical or healthy environment. Krakauer used these personal anecdotes to not only justify what Chris McCandless did but also to challenge society's views of nonconformists, proving that it's human nature to deal with conflicts through isolated expeditions. Krakauer also used his own personal anecdotes to justify what McCandless’s sudden departure from reality truly was. He explains how he too “ felt oppressed by [his] old man’s expectations. It was drilled into [him] that anything less than success was failure”(148).

Many people traveled around the United States to escape from the life they know, but not many actually leave to find the meaning of their life. Into The Wild is about the story of a man named Chris McCandless who was an man that through his journey found friends that helped him get to his final destination of Alaska where he died. Christopher McCandless stands out because he left all his money, family, and bright future to live a life of constant traveling, being hungry, and sleeping most nights only having the stars as company on lonely nights with no home. This character can be described as having a thrill seeking, defying and even unstable life which shows in the story.