Analysis Of Chris Mccandless Into The Wild

Chris McCandless was a great man, a man led into the wild by the simple motivation of adventure, personal freedom, and the desire for singularity. Chris’s ultimate demise was his ill guided journey towards freedom guided by his pursuit for a life free of others and full of adventure. Chris had everything in front of him, but his childish attitude and ignorance led him astray. Chris was a young man from well off family, and was a college student at Emory in Atlanta with the prospect of going to law school after college. He however decided not to pursue a life of business and rather dropped everything, and began a life altering adventure. A spiritual exploration motivated by the desire for personal freedom, social singularity and fueled by a

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it….” (155) For McCandless this child-like ignorance never changed, rather it grew into a form of motivation. Of course, ignorance can be bliss; Chris saw no reason for why he couldn’t accomplish the things he desired. Unfortunately, life is not that easy, you would have to be blind to not see that. In many ways, Chris was blind; he didn’t see the obstacles that stood in his way. Chris couldn’t be stopped, he was a confident and driven individual who yearned for social freedom and was driven on the foundation that he could achieve anything. He was an explorer with a mind fascinated by adventure. In many respects, this was what made his story so captivating; you couldn’t help but

Freedom motivated him to new heights; he wanted it more than anything else in the world. “Two years he walks the earth, no phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ‘cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” (163) Alexander Supertramp says it all, this whole journey was driven by Chris’s desire to find himself, to rid his mind and body of what was and begin new. Chris never planned to come back, he wasn’t taking a trip; he was starting a new life. Out of everything, the thing that pushed Chris towards the great unknown the most was this possibility of feeling peace in his