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Character Analysis: Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

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Chris’ relationship with Walt was not very good but was not very bad. Walt was able to give money to Chris whenever he needed. Once Chris find out that he was still with another women to whom he was married to he did not have a good relationship wit him. This affected their relationship because he didn't trust his father with his mother. 9. Chris McCandless motivations going into the Alaskan wilderness was an intellectual who was ahead of his time, "Chris was good at almost everything he ever tried", Walt reflects, "which made him supremely overconfident" (Krakauer 118). This emphasizes in his type of characteristic showed he wanted to prove that he could be able to survive on his own, "He wanted to prove to himself that he could make it on his own, without anybody else's help" (Krakauer 159). McCandless take a big …show more content…

Chris McCandless life perspective and point of view so far made this belt so that he could reminisce all the long journeys he had been through ," ..like he was translating hieroglyphics for us. Each picture he'd carved into the leather had a long story behind it" (Krakauer 68). The pictures represented a symbol to him. Since he didn't want to carry technology is was rather better for him to draw pictures of them, "Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs"(Krakauer 67). This shows that Chris had many deeper meanings behind the picture he would be drawing whatever he felt was important. Chris was a unique person and he felt the need to explain it to others because he wanted to emphasize that any person could do whatever their passion is in life because he asserts, "Alex used to sit at the bar in the Cabaret and read that belt for hours on end.." (Krakauer 68). The summary of McCandless life up to that point is that he has been traveling and taking so many risks. So throughout his journey so far he intended to tell his friends that he went through the trouble times he wanted to show it in one simple

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