Why Is Chris Mccandless First Walk Into The Wild

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“If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you [Wayne] to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex”(page 3). Chris McCandless was on a search for adventure , experience, and cleanness from the society that his parents influenced upon Chris. Not only was Chris on a search for an adventure, he was also on a search for a story to tell, of how he stripped himself from society’s rules, and laws allowing him to escaped into the wild giving up al connections to society, burning his money, along bridges that he had to the outside world. Chris was in a family that took advantage of the small things, such as food, clothing, warmth, thus eventually causing Chris, to become ashamed of his family. Chris never …show more content…

Knowing there is a social injustice that was influenced upon him at birth he began to give away his possessions to the needy and donated all of his money to a charity. In a book found with Mccandless's remains highlighted “… you needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you have ever done in the old familiar, peaceful day, in the old life was now abolished and gone for good” , Chris knew that there was a less fortunate that no one really cared about. Everyone wanted to worry of what they have in their pockets instead of what others don't have, in which case, McCandless wanted to go in the shoes as the less fortunate, surrendering to the ultimate purpose; giving up everything he owned, in order to become reborn, and abolish the life that he had.Chris saw his sacrifice a cleanse that cleared him from his corruption that fuel his thought of the social injustice and money greed. “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an …show more content…

But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty”.McCandless had rubber thumb throughout the United States embracing the nature of which God had created. He experienced life different than most hitch hikers he was rubber thumbing for the fun of it in order to get an adventure, while most do it by force. Although, people may see Chris as a nut case, but eventually Chris had made his wish a reality and slept under the Alaskan sky. Chris’s adventure through the canals of the Grand Canyon searching for a rout to go to Mexico. Or when McCandless settled in “Oh My God Hot Springs” he wanted to be under the stars, he wanted to experience the liveliness of what nature has to prevail to him. McCandless wanted to live free and happy, along with no boarders nor restrictions.“The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.” After, hitch hiking for awhile, Chris found out that his farther had a hidden family which was a reason to suspect, for the cause of Chris’s departure from society: No longer able to look his farther

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