How Did Chris Mccandless Influence On Into The Wild

Marlen Gomez
01/18/2023
Cinco Delgado
English bridges 11

Jon Krakauers, Into the Wild shows how Chris McCandless influenced various others and how he vividly affected the surrounding lives. Being exceedingly educated and greatly mannered, society uproared when they heard the story of Chris McCandless. Having a successful family background and a perfect successful life himself. Did he throw it all away for nothing? or did he finally leave a life that was built for himself that he did not want and finally fulfill a life of adventure?

Chris was very privileged and had a full life ahead of him. He had recently graduated from college, was extremely educated and had a satisfactory amount of money. He mentioned to his parents about how he wanted

Franz became so attached to Chris by the death of his own son that he asked Chris to be his adopted grandson to continue his family name since he was at the end of his rope. He cared for the boy and was always trying to persuade Chris to obtain a job, and live a non-fatal life, but as always, Chris declined. Chris lectured Franz about how dull his life was and how he should take initiative and live on the edge a little bit because, in his opinion, that was the best way to live. The people he imitated most were authors he’d never met and lived lives of survivalists as well. He valued life experiences and deemed laws and technology worthless, which caused Chris to burn/ donate his money. Reasoning it corruptive. Whenever he told people of his crazy plan, which he came up with by reading The Call of the Wild by author Jack London, they would give him resources to help him, but of course he refused. When Franz heard of Chris’s death, he relapsed into his history of alcoholism and took into account a letter Chris had written before he died. Franz packed most of his stuff into a storage locker and moved to the campsite Chris had previously occupied and started from

It was obvious to Westerberg that Chris was very intelligent. He had a huge vocabulary and loved to read. It was strange to Westerberg how hard-working Chris was because the typical hitchhikers he offered jobs to didn’t do much and didn’t really want to be working for him anyway. Chris was mannered and pleasant to be around as well. Something not typical for a homeless person. Your average homeless person didn’t want to be homeless and had a reason to be. Chris, on the other hand, was a different story.Chris left such an impact on the people he met throughout the book Into the Wild by Krakauer because he was happy. He was happy with what he was doing and he was unstoppable. A real inspiration because of his dedication. He had a dream, and he fulfilled his dream, even if it meant he died in the process. Not only did this impact the people he met, but he was a genuine guy, and pleasant to be around, the complete opposite of what you’d expect from a homeless hitchhiker. Not only did his personality and morals impact the surrounding lives, but the fact that nobody knows his background or where he came from made people