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

As society tends to bond closer to things with no value rather than to stuff that matters the most. In the novel titled “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer the main character Christopher McCandless depart from the materialistic items created by Americans in search for a better life. McCandless rejects his family’s upper middle-class ways in which he was raised and begins his odyssey into the wild.
First off, McCandless was raised in Annandale, Virginia, with a father who worked as an aerospace engineer, a mother who accompanied him on business trips and a younger sister Carine. He graduated Emory University with a degree in history and anthropology and had nearly $24,000 saved up to go to law school. However, after graduating Emory he donated all $24,000 to charity and later stated to his parents “I think I’m going to disappear for a while” (Krakauer 21). Perhaps McCandless’s purpose for this was to once and for all leave behind his parents materialistic values and create values of his own.

“McCandless explained to Burres that he’d grown tired of Bullhead, tired of punching a clock, tired of the “Plastic people” he worked with, and decided to get the hell out of town” (Krakauer 43). That stuff was not enough, he worked hard and for what, he was burying himself into a hole that would soon be inescapable. It was time for him to let go and work toward finding inner sanctuary rather than working toward a miserable