The question that people are trying to figure out whether Chris McCandless was mentally ill or not? is a question that is left to be said undone, because their is no right or wrong answer but instead based upon opinion. In my opinion I strongly believe that Chris McCandless was not mentally ill. Chapter twelve of “Into the Wild” McCandless gives his father a present which was an expensive quester telescope and he tells him that even though they’d had their differences over the years, he was grateful for all the things he had done for him. Based upon this text you can identify that Chris was normal and loved his family nothing about him so identifies he was mentally ill. Furthermore, McCandless stayed the same person until one event in his