Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

Transcendentalist Paper

Charlie Jones once stated “Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” Chris McCandless was a very unique person. McCandless never really let anything get him down. He did what he wanted to do and never let anyone push him around. He had his own way of life. He didn't want to wake up in the morning doing the same few things every day so, he changed it. This story that was written about McCandless was worth telling.

First, to start off John Krakauer was an amazing person to tell such an awesome story. I believe that his story is worth telling. Krakauer showed McCandless having individuality and being a nonconformist. Carwile stated in into the wild “but I get the feeling he was the kind of guy who might want to ‘set the wilderness free’(krakauer 197). This statement shows how McCandless wanted to be apart of it. That he could find his answers to his problems. McCandless was his own person. He showed how you don't need anyone to make you happy and that you should be your own

McCandless really valued nature. He had got most of his food from the nature. While he was in hometown he had not packed any food but the bag of rice he had brought. McCandless had also died because of some of the food he had ate. Chris once stated in a journal in the book into the wild “EXTREMELY WEAK. FAULT OF POT. SEED….”(Krakauer 191). When he was in Alaska he killed many things but he felt bad about killing the moose because most of it had gone to waste. It went to waste because he didn't cook it right and clean it all right. He was still eating some barry when his body was shutting down form the pot seeds. He suffered badly during his death because there was no one there to help. Even though he didn't have all the smarts when it came to nature, it doesn't mean that he was stupid for going