Chris McCandless Essay

everyone actually lives their lives, but at least some try to. Some people just go through life not doing anything but the norm. Others like Chris McCandless try to experience life by adventurously living it. Chris McCandless wanted to experience something different. He believed he had to leave the normal society to truly see the beauty of life. Although Chris McCandless made some bad decisions, which sadly ended in his death, the idea of going out on this adventure to find himself was a good…

Free thinking: Chris McCandless originally was an university student who did not appear to donate or make generous gifts with his inherited college fund, “...he had announced to his parents that, on principle, he would no longer give or accept gifts.” (Krakauer 20). However, when he embarks on his journey, “,,,what nobody knew - was that he would shortly donate all the money in his college fund to OXFAM America, a charity dedicated to fighting hunger.” (Krakauer 20), McCandless has the…

I agree with Callarman’s argument. Chris McCandless was a top student and athlete at Emory University. He graduated and already had a great career set for him. He had no business going into the Alaskan Wilderness. Why he went into the Alaskan Wilderness? I don’t know. He just made his decisions based on his arrogance. I don’t think he made the best decisions when he was on his own, but they were the decisions he wanted to make. He…

Chris McCandless was a man who left lasting impressions on those who he met on his journey. Jan and her boyfriend Bob, and Ronald Franz were people who Chris made a lasting impression on. Chris wanted to go into the wild alone and not have any relationships when he did it, by doing so Chris made friends and left impressions by trying not to. Chris being the man who wanted to escape the world and those in it, made lasting relationships with others by wanting to escape and by reminding them of the…

everything he disdained about mainstream society. McCandless ultimately found it in the people that he found along his travel, but he believed that he did not. It didn’t matter to him that Rainy admitted that he saved his and Jan’s marriage, that Jan told him about her past and wanted to be like a mother for him, or that Ron wanted to adopt him. Even though the relationships he formed with these people happened with all sincerity and made McCandless become who he was, he was convinced that the…

find the meaning of life is characterized in the novel, Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer. Chris McCandless was a brave man who abandoned his family and friends to achieve his goals--to discover the true meaning of life and happiness within the process of entering into the Alaskan wilderness. In the process, McCandless displayed hubris through his decisions in his adventure to Alaska. McCandless did not think thoroughly while he was packing for his trip to Alaska. As the book states, “Alex…

Jon Krakauer, a book about a young man named Christopher McCandless, a great mass of people came forward and criticized McCandless (include more) Included in this group is Peter Christian, an Alaska Park Ranger that believed Chris as an “stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate,” man that essentially had a death wish. However, what may be interpreted as a foolish act by some was actually McCandless’ way of pursuing his dreams. In fact, McCandless shares the similarities of a hero because he was brave…

Into The Wild is the real story of Chris McCandless, a youthful Emory graduate who was discovered dead in the Alaskan wild in September 1992 at the age of 24. McCandless experiences childhood in rich rural areas of Washington, D.C., and is an extremely skilled challenger and researcher, who’s from his early age, demonstrates thoughtful energy, and powerful ideas. In the wake of moving on from secondary school McCandless spends the mid-year alone on a street trip which he finds that his dad…

from societal rules. McCandless followed through with his passion and as a result he touched the lives of many people who could not follow his passion. His interaction with individuals throughout his journey left them life lessons how to live and follow their passions. McCandless left a lasting impression on individuals he encountered because everyone he met saw a piece of themselves in him they never realized they had. Ronald Franz is one of the many people who Chris McCandless graced by…

McCandless lived an incredible life. He dared to live in a way that reflected a transcendental lifestyle, something that we do not see much of nowadays. McCandless traveled all across the west, looking for that final, sweet adventure and ended up in Alaska, starved to death. The peculiar thing about this though, is that McCandless seemed to have no regrets. McCandless lived a unique life by the transcendental actions of reducing dependence on property and self reliance. Chris McCandless…