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An Analysis Of Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

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Chris McCandless was insane to leave his life behind for the wilderness and was just as ignorant as he was insane about the wild itself. However, it was very clear that this journey of
Chris was not just meant as some mere adventure for fun, but as a way for Chris to search for himself in the process.
Chris was a very bright and educated individual. He even graduated from Emory
University. He was also known for being a talented and well rounded individual, according to his parents. Chris must’ve known that was he was doing was completely ridiculous. He definitely made some less than desirable choices when going, “Into the Wild.” One example is when he decided to burn all the money he had when he was going into the Alaskan wilderness (Krakauer …show more content…

Chris wasn’t just naive to a fault, but apparently sensitive to one as well. Chris was easily influenced by the romantic nature of writers he read texts from as well. He seemed to attempt to follow the footsteps of the writers’ fictional characters to the very letter. From their actions to their thought processes, Chris followed them all. Krakauer was quoted as saying that Chris was too sensitive and seemed to follow in the footsteps of the fictional protagonists he read about, but
Gerodias 2 ignored the fact that they all died doing exactly what Chris did. He followed the words of writers as if they were gospel to him. In the epigraph of Chapter 5, Chris wrote “All Hail the Dominant
Primordial Beast! And Captain Ahab too!” Chris never seemed to discover the massive gap between reality and the fiction he so desperately attempted to follow.
Along with a sensitivity to a fault, and a seemingly complete lack of common sense, he didn’t seem to even know anything about living in the wild at all. Some even called him underprepared for the large journey he wanted to undertake. One example is when Krakauer described the scenario where if Chris had kept a topographical map of the area, he

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