Chris McCandless met many significant people throughout his many adventures and endeavors. It is shown that Chris met many people throughout his many years of living as a tramp, which of whom were predominantly male, who had some kind of connection towards him. What about the females he met through his wandering events of living as what he called himself a “supertramp”. Did they have the same connection towards McCandless just like the males. Did Chris see them the same way they looked at him ? Krakauer 's Into The Wild presents significant impact on the character of Chris McCandless through the few female voices of the novel, their individual relationships with Chris, and how the relationships are viewed on both ends.
Through Billie’s eyes,
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Even though it can be seen that Chris does show some sort of affection toward Burres, he be annoyed of Jan’s constant concern about his family and if they knew anything about him. “I’d ask him, ‘Have you let you your people know what you’re up to? Does your mom know you’re going to Alaska? Does your dad know? But he’d never answer. He’d just roll his eyes at me, get peeved, tell me to quit trying to mother him.” (Krakauer 45). Exhibits Burres trying to figure out if anyone from McCandless’s family knew anything about him, knowing as a mother his family might be worried about him. Burres’ attempts only lead to annoy McCandless and hated the fact that Jan was trying to act as his mother. “I’d keep at it until he’d change the subject, though because of what happened between me and my own son. He’s out there somewhere, and I’d want someone to take care of him like I tried with Alex.” (Krakauer 46). McCandless made the relationship complex, because he would always try to keep his personal life a secret even though he trusted her. Burres knowing the irritation, that would come upon persisting McCandless about knowing any single detail about his personal life to inform his parents about his whereabouts, because Burres had a child out in the world just like Chris she knew nothing about, seeking the opportunity to …show more content…
Knowing the McCandless only told her certain things that he kept secret from the other signifies that he was really close to Gail and that there could not be any secrets between them that he would keep from her, except for, his real identity. “One night a bunch of us went out to a bar over in Madison, and it was hard to get him out on the dance floor. But once he was out there, he wouldn’t sit down. After Alex died and all, Carine told me that as far as she knew, I was one of the only girls he ever went dancing with.” (Krakauer 65). Demonstrates how Gail had a major affect on Chris, because McCandless broke out of his shell more with her that she even convinced him to go dancing, which he rarely even did with anyone except for his sister Carine. McCandless came around many different people throughout his journeys, who were mainly males that had some type of connection and relationship with him. Just like the males, the females meant throughout his adventures can be shown of having some type of connection with him. They also shared as to what they thought about him and how he thought about them in there one point of view. Which made the female voices stand out just as much as the males that had their perspective on Chris described and how Chris saw all of them through his own
answers, Krakauer develops his own theory that McCandless consciously chose to avoid any human relationship after his separation from his family, so that he could bear, without fully appreciating, the loss of such relationships. For example, Krakauer states that McCandless continued to head north after Ron Franz, an elderly man who treated McCandless as his son, expressed a desire to adopt him. He explains, “McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north…relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the emotional baggage that comes with it. He had fled the catastrophic confines of his family. He’s successfully kept Jane Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him.
McCandless didn’t just abandon people he met across the country but also deserted the people who cared for him most, his family, which shows even more that he lived a selfish and uncaring life. McCandless might not have had the best relationship with his parents but they are still the ones who raised him and loved him. Billie cared for Chris and tried to give him everything, and she didn’t deserve what happened to her. Losing a child must have been really hard on her especially without any warning. She describes a vivid dream she had late in the book: “‘I don’t know how I’ll ever get over it.
Chris McCandless always seem to make his efforts in finding peace so prominent throughout his life. He was distant,intelligent, calm. People didn't believe his plan about taking an adventure out in the wild. In chapter 3 McCandless said "I think I'm going to disappear for a while. " His intention wee clear yet nobody nobody suspected he'd go off into the wild.
In the non-fiction piece, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, the audience follows young Christopher McCandless through his journey across the American west to his inevitable death, dragging Krakauer in the narrative throughout. In a story about the life and death of the young boy, Krakauer continuously interjects his own experience and beliefs regarding Chris’ travels relentlessly. In this way, the author represents a perspective on Chris contrasting many criticisms of the young man, though Krakauer carries his own criticisms of the young adventurer. Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, inserts himself into the text through his personal experience and connection to Christopher McCandless and his beliefs effectively providing contrast to those
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God reveals the role of masculinity as well as femininity in one’s life. Janie’s various relationships develop her sense of femininity, as the different men who she becomes involved with all possess different masculine traits. The progression from Logan to Jody to Tea Cake allows Janie to find her own feminine identity due to the different hardships she endures throughout her relationship with the three men. The vast difference in characteristics of the three men emphasizes the role that masculinity plays in a consensual, reciprocal relationship, and what ideal reciprocity looks like.
Chris just wants to be completely separated from his family and their life. Chris leaves his parents without saying a word to them: “By the beginning of August 1990, Chris’s parents had heard nothing from their son since
Chris had a huge impact on everyone he knew, but he would not let them influence him or his decisions at all. He rebelled against his family because his father was too controlling. Later on, when any of his companions told him not to go to Alaska, or tried telling him to do anything that he did not want to, he would totally ignore them, and change the subject. As Krakauer writes in chapter 6, “McCandless…relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it. He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family.
From the beginning of the novel it is apparent that McCandless has issues with his parents, mostly his father in particular. McCandless doesn’t approve of his father attempting to take over his life. His father’s ideals for him include going to college, getting a high-class job, and living a “normal” lifestyle. None of which is in McCandless’ future plans. This authority his father as well as the government tries to set upon him is one of the reasons why McCandless left to go into the wild.
When Krakauer discloses the family narrative, the first member discussed is Walt McCandless, who is introduced as a figure of authority "When Walt talks, people listen. If something or someone displeases him, his eyes narrow and his speech becomes clipped" (105). This is carefully constructed chronology as, the reader can generalize McCandless as being the type of character who does not follow the established prescient; Chris broke convention. A former teacher of McCandless commented that "Chris marches to a different drummer" (pg 107). However, Walt McCandless is however, the authority, the head of the family, and the rule maker.
There were many people he met who tried to talk Chris out of it but since it was just him he never really listened. Shaun Callarman is just one of many people who agree with my ideas of who Chris really was. Shaun says, “I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense,
Into the wild, is a book by Jon Krakauer that later got turned into a film by Sean Penn, it follows the life of Christopher McCandless, who graduated from Emory University as a top student and athlete with wealthy pushing parents. Instead of continuing his life as a working man of society and taking his offers at top law schools, he decides to ultimately completely disconnect himself from society and instead tries to find his own meaning of life in the wild. Shaun Callarman says “ I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time.” and i really agree with him on that because even though he left his college a top student the way he wanted to completely disconnect himself the way he did was ignorant. Not only that In the movie it clearly shows that even though he didn't want to connect with people on his journey to alaska he did, I think that if he wouldn't have been so set on being alone and not being attached to others he wouldn't have died the way he did.
In the beginning, McCandless starts his adventure by cutting himself off from all the human connections he had. He severs all ties from his family, including his sister which whom he was previously very close to. He burns his social security card, changes his name, and decides to travel across the country. Throughout his journey, Christopher often accounts for his parent’s wrongdoings for the reasons why he wanted to run away to Alaska. He subsists with a minimalist lifestyle and is disappointed in his parents’ behaviors and their materialism.
Chris has no problem gaining the trust of the family while he starts working at a better career with his father in law. Meanwhile, Chris starts an obsession with Nola and pursues her even further after her relationship ends with his brother-in-law. Once he finally grasps Nola, he leads her on a fruitless relationship as his mistress. Chris is a character that has no bounds, no sense of morals or any ethics about himself. While his relationship with Nola blooms, his wife is struggling to conceive a child and start a family with him.
By changing his identity and leaving society, he felt he was shedding the fake elements of his past and evolving into a person he wanted to be. Chris McCandless did not depart on his transcendental quest to die, he ventured into the wilderness to kill the disappointments of his
Chris’s family is composed of his two parents, Walt and Billie Mccandless, and his sister, Carine. His family is well off as shown when said, “Walt went into business for himself, launching a small but eventually prosperous consulting firm, User Systems, Incorporated” (Karakauer 20) and the family seemed to only want the best of the best for their son, Chris. While their descriptives may seem like your average family, they still had troubles in their life. In a letter to his sister, Chris told her specifically that he wished to cut all ties off with his family, “I’m going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I love” (Krakaeur 64). By using the word “idiots” when speaking about his parents, Chris shows how he thinks of his parents as lessers and thus this idea contributes to the the true, inner resentment Chris seems to feel for his parents.