Analysis Of Into The Wild By Chris Mccandless

Chris McCandless abandoned modern world and choose the wild because he believed that he can improve himself through living in the world, and finds the true happiness of the life. McCandless abandoned his wealthy family because his complicated relationship with his father, and he was ashamed with his father’s adultery. Therefore McCandless believed that human relationship is not a thing that forms happiness, and the connection with nature brings joy as well. He believed the habitual lifestyle was what people meant to do, he believed people shouldn't have more possessions than what they need, and that is why McCandless travel with little effects. McCandless thought he can find the solution of his confusion with his father's adultery, and he can

He highlighted passages that he felt a strong connection to. McCandless highlighted one of passage in the book “Family Happiness” by Leo Tolstoy. The passage reads “I wanted movement and not a clam course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in quiet life” (Into the wild, page.15). The date Chris McCandless highlighted the passage was never known, but the text is more important. The passage he highlighted reveal that when McCandless endanger himself in risky situations, he felt nothing more than happiness. No one understands why McCandless walked into the Desert and almost dehydrate to death, and why McCandless tried to paddle his canoe into Mexico and reach the ocean, when the powerful tidy threaten to carry him out to sea. As a matter of fact, when Jan Barres first met Chris McCandless in the summer of 1990, she described that he was big time hungry, but real happy (Into the wild,

His father, Samuel Walter McCandless was living in a double life. Chris and Carnie McCandless were the result of Walt McCandless's second marriage to Billie. Walt McCandless's split from his first wife, Marcia, was not a clean parting. Walt McCandless continued his relationship with Marcia in secret, Walt McCandless used to lie to cover up the truth, and as the result of the adultery Walt McCandless had another son that was two years younger than Chris McCandless with Marcia. Chris McCandless was bothered by the truth, but he kept it to himself and letting the emotions build. "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth" (Into the wild, page.187) this is a passage that Chris McCandless highlighted from the book "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau that reflected his view the most. Perhaps he wanted the truth to be told so badly, he eventually became tired with it and he escaped from the unrevealed truth. It is plausible that Chris McCandless wanted an isolation form frustration as the self-improvement and the