How Is Chris Mccandless Determined

John Krakauer wrote the book Into the Wild about Christopher McCandless, who takes a wild journey. This book tells of his crazy adventures of him being in the wild. This book contains personal information on what might have led McCandless to go on his own and live the lifestyle that he lived. Chris is a figure both admired and criticized in the years following his death. Some believe McCandless to be a noble, determined, brave, and extraordinary adventurer worthy of admiration for living his life to the fullest. Others believe McCandless to be arrogant, selfish, disrespectful, silly, and ignorant. Author Jon Krakauer states, “Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s

To be determined means to be firmly set in one's decisions and not break just because things get tough. Many people were put in McCandless’s way that tried to knock him off the path that he wanted to take because they knew that it was not the safest thing for him. He had met someone named Jim Gallien along his travels that had warned him “the hunting wasn’t easy where he was going, that he could go days without killing any game” (Krakauer 5). McCandless was so stubborn and he would pretty much turn anyone down on any advice they tried to give him. McCandless was a very independent person and didn’t want to rely on anyone to do something for him. “I won’t run into anything I can’t deal with on my own”(Krakauer 6). Chris also “hadn’t spoken to his family in nearly two years”(Krakauer 6). He wanted no one to interfere with him finding himself and those examples show just how determined he was to do so. One of Chris’s biggest goals for himself was to make a life of his own and not end up like his parents. Being determined like in those specific examples, is what led him to be his own person and not just another variant of his parents. There was nothing that would make McCandless doubt that he could make it in Alaska on his