Henry 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
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.
rebelling against 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
Into The Wild This book is the story of Chris McCandless, a 24 year old Emory graduate who was found dead in the Alaskan wilderness in September 1992. McCandless grew up in wealthy Virginia. He grew in Washington, D.C. and was a very gifted athlete, great scholar,someone who showed strict moral compass, and a young man that showed passion since a young age. After he graduated the from high school he went to, McCandless spent the summer alone on a road trip across the US, during which he discovered
Chris Wong Mrs. Schauer English 4 2 28 September, 2015 Run Chris Run! “Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” (Forrest Gump) Just like chocolates, people never know who they will meet and in Chris McCandless’ case he received a very kind and caring box. In the novel, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, the communities that Chris McCandless assimilated into throughout his life gave him a genuine sense of appreciation and benevolent compassion towards others which
view of reality". Most all of Chris McCandless's, the main character who decides to set out on an intriguing journey into the wilderness, choices throughout the novel are related to Romantic concepts. McCandless is represented as an adventurous and risk-taking man who drops everything in his, what some might call a "impeccable" life, to go out on a limb and leaves his simple and uncomplicated lifestlye to hike into the woods and risk his own survival. Amazingly, McCandless is able to accomplish some
popular and accepted definition of a hero in literature is someone that fits into Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey plotline. In this definition, the hero uses his or her heroic quality to propel himself forward and arrives at six key plot points that transform the protagonist from a human that simply has heroic qualities to a true hero that uses his or