Self-Reliance in Into The Wild
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is an understanding of one man's hunger for self-reliance in the world. In 1990, Christopher McCandless leaves everyday society to venture into the wild with a goal of reaching Alaska and living on only his surroundings. Chris truly believes “that you should own nothing except what you carry on your back.” (Krakauer,32). He starts his journey with a car that gets flooded in the desert so he decides to hitchhike. Hitchhiking and wandering his way through the northwest, he encounters unique individuals, some having his beliefs but others try to tell him that his thinking is insane. Once he reaches Alaska, Chris finds struggles and obstacles in the environment and he eventually dies from starvation, ending his two-year journey. The author Jon Krakauer …show more content…
“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs''(Krakauer,76). Chris chooses to abandon the world that he believes to be treating him wrong instead of using his ideas to make the world the kind of place he believes is morally right. This belief is what drove him to fully immerse himself in his journey to be self-reliant. “We [Jan Burres, Christopher McCandless] got to talking. He was a nice kid.... And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy.... Said he was tramping around the country, having a big old adventure” (Krakauer, 30). This hunger for everything is what fed his desire for a simple way of life. When he meets people, Chris mentions his desire to be in Alaska and how he will live off the land without being dependent on anything or anyone. Once this becomes a reality, he realizes that the problems he had with society were replaced with the physical problems found in the wilderness including lack of shelter and lack of
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is an understanding of one man's hunger for self-reliance in the world. In 1990, Christopher McCandless leaves everyday society to venture into the wild with a goal of reaching Alaska and living on only his surroundings. Chris truly believes “that you should own nothing except what you carry on your back.” (Krakauer,32). He starts his journey with a car that gets flooded in the desert so he decides to hitchhike. Hitchhiking and wandering his way through the northwest, he encounters unique individuals, some having his beliefs but others try to tell him that his thinking is insane. Once he reaches Alaska, Chris finds struggles and obstacles in the environment and he eventually dies from starvation, ending his two-year journey. The author Jon Krakauer …show more content…
“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs''(Krakauer,76). Chris chooses to abandon the world that he believes to be treating him wrong instead of using his ideas to make the world the kind of place he believes is morally right. This belief is what drove him to fully immerse himself in his journey to be self-reliant. “We [Jan Burres, Christopher McCandless] got to talking. He was a nice kid.... And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy.... Said he was tramping around the country, having a big old adventure” (Krakauer, 30). This hunger for everything is what fed his desire for a simple way of life. When he meets people, Chris mentions his desire to be in Alaska and how he will live off the land without being dependent on anything or anyone. Once this becomes a reality, he realizes that the problems he had with society were replaced with the physical problems found in the wilderness including lack of shelter and lack of