Into The Wild Comparison Essay

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Christopher McCandless: A young person that had a great future waiting for him, but he was tired of society, conflict between his parents, and materialism. Chris had the urge to find who he was in life, he had abandoned everything he had behind to discover it. According to him, the current society and materialism prevents a man to show the true nature. Chris stated “If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” (McCandless 57). Chris went in search of himself, away from society and family. This spiritual quest…show more content…
Chris was portrayed differently on the film and as well in the book. In the book , written by Jon Krakauer, Chris is shown to be as a foolish character, while in the film, directed by Sean Penn, Chris is portrayed to have a care-free personality. The motion picture shows the tones of voice and expressions of ones character, on the contrary happens inside a book. The film Into the Wild is full of gorgeous scenes and beautiful landscapes, also being accompanied with worthy music that fits in the story. Great two hours of sequence of images, the film just doesn’t start with a beginning and an end of a story, like most most movies would do so, it is mounted in a particular way: one side, it is divided into four chapters: Childhood, Adolescence, Maturity, and Wisdom. On the other side, it is disordered chronologically within these chapters and not in order as the book is read. The purpose of the film is first to show the path of Chris before arriving in Alaska (1990-1992), meetings he has done, and the places he has visited throughout his journey and make viewers worry about the survival of Chris in the cold of Alaska in the ‘Magic

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