Analysis Of Christopher Mccandless In Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

Based on the reading done from the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the following argument about why Christopher McCandless had ventured into the wild can be based on literary influences and is constructed. However, others may claim that McCandless must’ve had a mental illness or had been mentally deranged, a.k.a. crazy, to head into the wilderness with little to no supplies or prior knowledge of what he might or will experience. In Into the Wild, the main protagonist Christopher McCandless is the son of wealthy parents; Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt, along with his sister Carine McCandless. Chris graduates from the Emory University as a top student and athlete, however, instead of undergoing a prestigious and profitable career, he decides to give his savings to a hunger-preventing charity, rids himself of most of his possessions, and set out to the Alaskan wilderness.

His corpse weighed just 67 pounds, McCandless had lived in what he apparently called his "magic bus." Towards the end of his journal he had written that "death looms" around him and that he was "too weak to walk out" of the bus for help. Returning to the main topic to why Chris went to the Alaskan wilderness, I can confidently declare that the main influence to Chris’s journey was through the literature he had read through and before his venture. One such influence is the piece done by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled Nature, it states “within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years” (5). In a less philosophical deliverance, it basically explains how beautifully majestic the wilderness is, and how its guest(man) could never get bored of how it looks. This along with many other literature pieces were found in the possessions of the departed