Chris Mccandless Wrong

There are many people who participate in the illegal act of hitchhiking. But there is no single case of this odd behavior. Some cases include youths getting away from harmful situations. Others seek for the thrills of being able to go anywhere, not knowing where the road will take them. Some are lost. Confused about where they stand in modern society. For christopher johnson mccandless, it was all of these reasons, and maybe more. The question is however, is why. Why did mccandless leave his well-to -do family to hitchhike to alaska to simply “live off the land”? Why did he want to invent a new life for himself when he had more than was necessary? There is only so much evidence to explain this simple question that many have asked for the past

Mccandless’s father was high in the NASA program. Years later, mccandless's parents broke off from NASA to create their own company. This led to verbal arguments and occasional physical fighting. Researchers think this is an early reason why chris wanted to get out for a while. For a present after his high school graduation, chris’s parents bought him a yellow 1968 datsun. Chris was very upset and told his parents that he already had a car. naturally , a child tries to always please his/her parents. For chris mccandless, it wa the other way around. “We worked very, very hard. We did without when the kids were little, saved what we earned, and invested it for the future.” (P.115) after reaching their fortune, they bought a townhouse on the bay and a sailboat. They took their kids to europe, skiing in Breckenridge, on a caribbean cruise. Billie, chris's mother, acknowledged that, “Chris was embarrassed by all of that.”(P.115) Jon krakauer, the author of Into the Wild, discovered that Chris believed that wealth was shameful, corrupt and inherently evil. But decided that it was ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with a special knack for making a