The Alaskan Scavenger Hunt Into the Wild, a true story and now a book written by Jon Krakauer. This story is about a young self driven independent college graduate who gave all his money to charity, gave his car away and hitch-hiked his all of over the United States seeking for adventure and his Dream. Chris McCandless abandoned everything he had and left without telling anyone. After two years of his journey, Chris McCandless was found dead in a bus located in Alaska. He had eaten potato seeds which was a big factor on how he died. Chris McCandless decided to drop everything and live his life the way he wanted to. He wanted to push himself to his own limits alone and Step Into The Wild. Chris decided what he wanted to do and what lifestyle he wanted to live and kept his word. McCandless left his past behind and started his journey Krakauer …show more content…
Unfortunately, the stubborn man ran into a few unforgiving surprises. I also think that he didn’t get the happiness he thought he was going to get before he died. Chris kept a journal where he documented what he was feeling and experiencing throughout his journey. Reaching the end of his life, Chris wrote, “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED” (189). McCandless was all alone and had no way to contact anyone when he was sick and starving to death. He was living the life he wanted to but he did not find happiness. I believe Chris found freedom and independence. In the Bus where Chris’s body was found, Chris wrote on sheet of weathered plywood where he wrote a his independence, “ Two years he walks the earth. No phone, No pool, No pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road ” (163). When Chris left and started his journey the found the freedom he was looking for. He didn’t want anyone telling him what to do. He wanted to do it his way and gain that from stepping into the the
My list book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a nonfiction story explaining the life of Chris McCandless when he decides to leave his family and friends and explore life on his own. In 1990 Chris McCandless decides to run away from his family and the rest of society by traveling on a massive cross-country adventure. McCandless first travels to The Mojave Desert and abandons his car after the engine gets wet in a flash flood and refuses to start. He then hitchhikes to Mexico and buys a small kayak, in which he explores many irrigation canals and eventually finds his way to the Gulf of California.
Chris McCandless was a traveler and nature enthusiast. He wanted to get away from life in society and be with himself for a little. In Into the WIld, Jon Krakauer characterizes Christopher McCandless as Brave and Unprepared. Chris was a brave man. He went into the toughest wild by himself.
Chris strived for freedom and release from his household and society itself, to achieve that he sought to the woods to live a positive and beautiful existence on the earth. The blog post “Note from Carine McCandless” by Carine McCandless is the most likely interpretation of Chris McCandless’s life and his choices. Carine explains and supports what led up to Chris McCandless making the decisions he made. Carine, who grew up, lived, and most likely spent the most time with Chris, will have the most truthful information and experiences. The experiences that Carine has gone through in the McCandless household are very close to what Chris could have experienced which led up to the decisions he made.
In particular Chris Mccandless should be supported for he had things happen to him that led up to the point where he wanted to go into the wild to get away from his old life and created a new one for himself to have more opportunities. Others may think he shouldn’t be supported just because he some bad flaws he had and also that he just left his sister who he actually got along with, but here are some reasons that are logical and reasonable to why Chris Mccandless should be supported. One of the reasons why readers should support Chris McCandless is because he is generous, he gave people inspiration, or felt inspired by others, and like in the book Krakauer tells us “Chris’s Father suggested the boy had probably been inspired. ”(94),his way of living inspired everyone that you can live anyway you want.
The book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a man named Chris. He wanted to just to get away from everything and know how it felt to go off and live in the wild of Alaska. He doesn't make it back home after he finally gets what he was looking for (a raw experience) but his adventure is very interesting and addictive to read. The book also makes you question if Chris really knows what he's doing or if he is just crazy. Jon Krakauer wrote this book and thought that Chris was a hero because he did what he wanted to do and made up his mind and went to Alaska and survived for quite a while.
Chris McCandless the man who ventured of into the wild and ultimately ended up paying the The ultimate price of his perfectly comfortable normal life or whatever was normal about it to him and this is his wild story about his life and how and why he went into the wild with him being super confident he was and his abilities to go out by himself to escape society and live out in the wild by himself with nobody else but himself so this is the Chris McCandless story and how he went into the wild.
Chris McCandless was a great man, a man led into the wild by the simple motivation of adventure, personal freedom, and the desire for singularity. Chris’s ultimate demise was his ill guided journey towards freedom guided by his pursuit for a life free of others and full of adventure. Chris had everything in front of him, but his childish attitude and ignorance led him astray. Chris was a young man from well off family, and was a college student at Emory in Atlanta with the prospect of going to law school after college. He however decided not to pursue a life of business and rather dropped everything, and began a life altering adventure.
Have you ever been waiting for something different/new to happen in your life; well transcendentalism is for you, it’s filled with excitement, adventure, and simply sticking with your gut on things. McCandless surly represents a transcendentalist life. He’s very good at sticking with his own opinion, doing his own thing (even if everyone else is doing another), and searching for the meaning of life. McCandless is his own person and no one can change that- he finds out things for himself. In a world where people only concentrate on things that are skin deep it’s good to have a transcendentalist life style.
Chris realized this too late as he was dying in Alaska. Chris had wanted to be in Alaska so badly, but it wasn’t what he thought. As Chris was dying he remembered all of the people in his life and how they impacted him and made his life better. He realized that he was at his happiest point with all these friends he made. While he was in Alaska, a place he thought would fulfil him he felt isolated and was incapable of survival.
My first impressions of Chris McCandless were that he was delusional and a very resentful person, because we differ greatly in personality. McCandless was portrayed as a misfit in his own family, which attributed to his wanting to escape into the wild. In a letter to Carnie, his sister, he wrote" I 'm going to completely knock them out of my life. I 'm going to divorce them as my parents...and never speak to either of those idiots again"(Krakauer 64). McCandless left to where he thought that he belonged, in the wild, he never contacted his family again.
Chris McCandless was a intelligent, idealistic young man who lived his life alone, in nature. Chris rejected the ideals of society and had a yearning for a nomadic lifestyle. McCandless went into the wild seeking a life without materialism and a life without rules. He does find what he was looking for; but his journey leads to death in the end. Most people wouldn’t have made the journey that Chris made; nevertheless survive as long as he did, with as little as he had.
He talks about how he wanted to live the one life he had to the fullest. On page 37 on chris log he says “ but this was not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which true meaning is found. God it's great to be alive." What Chris says in this entry was true to him.
Jon Krakauer writes, “McCandless Didn’t conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype. Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent - he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were. And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t and outcast. McCandless was something else - although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim perhaps.”
He also endures hunger, exhaustion, and nature’s most challenging hardships to attain his happiness. Chris McCandless does what most people in normal society are too afraid to do. He does everything possible, including giving
Chris McCandless was a college student with a need for adventure. On April 28, 1992, he left on a journey which would lead to the end of his life. After news of his death had reached public ear, most people came to the same conclusion: Chris McCandless was an uneducated, arrogant boy who went on a journey seeking death. However, in the novel Into the Wild, Jon Krakaur portrays Chris McCandless’ transcendental quest as a journey full of wonder. Throughout the novel, Krakaur defines McCandless as an intelligent, hard working, determined young man.