Is Life On the road suited for everyone? McCandless wanted to adventure like many of the characters in Jack London’s books. McCandless, wanted to adventure and see new things. He wanted to experience adventures and set off and embark on a new journey. McCandless, felt or thought that leaving his old life and starting a new life, would help him get away from his “annoying” family and from the problems his parents were facing. Chris wanted to leave society behind and all the fake people that lived
something in his own life with make him Transcendentalism. Chris McCandless has believed on himself that he can live his life by his own rule. The main topic Chris McCandless running away from problem, Chris McCandless must be self-reliant an individual, Chris McCandless have the right even the obligation to break laws that we find morally wrong, Chris McCandless true wealth. Chris McCandless has ability to go beyond the sense and has more guts to do something in his own life with make him Transcendentalism
David Thoreau. This quote describes exactly what Chris McCandless feels like, as he was form a higher class family and did rather well in high school and college. However Chris didn’t let his families wellbeing affect how he feels about life. Chris believed that life should be about self-happiness and love. Chris did everything he felt was right like burning his money, because in his mind he was right. In all realness Chris McCandless developed a life for himself based on the absolute necessities needed
society and to become something different – against the social norm. Like the Transcendentalists that Chris McCandless read about and look so highly at, he too wasn’t content with his life and wanted to know the meaning behind his existence. With the transcendentalist ideals in his head, Chris set off to find himself and rebel against human society. Chris McCandless wasn’t in the time frame of his life but of those he read about. In a time where there was still much to discover and land that had been
Chris McCandless has been a very inspirational person to many people. No not everyone has this same perspective but I would say that there is a majority of people who admire what Chris McCandless has done. I know that I wouldn’t be able to survive the way that McCandless did, to be honest I would have given up the first couple of days. I wouldn’t have even donated all of my money to charity because I would have used all of that money to survive on my trip. But, we are talking about Chris McCandless
lifestyle. Jon Krakaeur writes a compelling non-fiction story of a man in the name of Chris McCandless achieving his dreams while going against society, in Into the Wild. To bring about their dreams, one must follow a rigorous set of ideals.
wealthy, educated, and handsome, like McCandless was, it leaves people wondering how they ever came to such an end. Many of those that read the article from the magazine, Outside, immediately branded Chris McCandless as an arrogant idiot. Thousands of letters poured in just to express the contempt that the readers held for the recently deceased boy. There are many reasons that those who read the article detailing his Alaskan adventure felt such outrage towards McCandless. Perhaps it was because they thought
words that come to mind when describing Christopher McCandless. To Jon Krakauer Chris McCandless was rash, but Krakauer insists that McCandless “wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an outcast. McCandless was something else - although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim perhaps”(85). The real question still remains unanswered, what precisely was McCandless? Chris McCandless ultimately should be described as a romantic. Chris was a free spirit, he was a counterculture adventurer
him, came to the realization that every possession on this planet was nothing but vanity. Chris McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, was simply a 24 year old soul searching for a home. Chris exited his life as the character he was portraying, and entered the stage as a new icon, known as Alexander Supertramp. Alex lived the life of an animal that challenged the extremity of sanity; but why? Chris McCandless was a dreamer, who never waited until his sleepless nights to dream about what this world
Sowards May 12, 2015 Final Paper: Into the Wild There are times in life when we set out on adventures to discover more about ourselves. Sometimes it’s for self-discovery, and sometimes it’s to escape the ordinary life and live to our ideals. In Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction book “Into the Wild” Christopher McCandless goes out into the wild hoping to escape the past of his abusive father and find solitude in the wilderness. In this book, Chris is portrayed as a believer of idealism and physical endurance