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Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

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There are always three sides to a story, the point of view of both individuals and the actual truth. When someone only knows one part of a story, their opinion may be swayed, but when they gets to hear both sides of the story, they are able to form their own opinion. In the book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer I was able to view both sides of the story. There is the side of Chris McCandless, with the blaming and lies and the other side is his family, with concern and heartbreak. When I started to read the book Into the Wild, it seemed to me like his parents were not very worried about what he was doing with his life because he was a wonderful son and student so there was nothing for them to worry about. But I wonder if they ever saw things …show more content…

He made his parents out to be the reason why he was going out into the wild. Chris had conflict with his family and on his journey he shared his unhappiness with everyone. One of Chris’s good friends Gail Borah was left with that impression. Gail stated that “It was pretty obvious he didn’t get along with his family, but he never said much about any of them except Carine, his little sister”. He made it seem that his parents didn’t care that he was out roaming around. McCandless’s parents cared about Chris they missed him and were dying to hear anything from him after he left. Chris was completely wrong about them and instead of facing his problems he decided to run from …show more content…

He was doing what he wanted to do not what they told him to do. It looked like after his dad having a double life Chris's relationship with his parents went down the drain, he begins to see his father as a liar and no good, and it was like he doesn't want nothing to do with his parents no more. As the chapters go on it seems to me his father had taught Chris to live one way, and it turned out that his father was willing to live another way, Like in the passage called Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak he wrote in the margin "Need for Purpose." it

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A major difference that exists between Into the Wild and the documentary, “Return to the Wild”, is that in the documentary the childhood abuse is uncovered and told to the world which was left out in the book. These details were left out of the book because Carine had asked Krakauer not to include them. After learning about McCandless’s childhood, it definitely lets people understand him better because you now know his inspiration for leaving home and how it affected his actions as he grew up. Also, more of the family’s perspective was included, this made a difference because we know what they are feeling and their view of what happened to Chris. After learning about these differences, Chris seems to be more relatable and now I know that he

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McCandless has many reasons for making that decision about leaving his life behind. Chris’s parents had a big impact on why he made this decision. He had many thoughts on his parents. I have many thoughts

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On page 6 of Into the Wild Chris says “nobody knew of his plans that in fact he hasn't spoken to his family in nearly 2 years” part of this was because he did not want to talk to his parents over everything that has happened throughout his life with them. Throughout the story his family situation has a hard topic to talk about. The information that I stated shows how his relationship with his family was rocky to say the least. The second reason why Chris McCandless was justified in leaving his family was, he was doing what he loved, being out in nature and being on an adventure.

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This may have been a big reason Chris just up and left without telling anybody. Was he trying to prove something to his dad but it backfired on him? A lot of people think so and you can tell by reading the book that he did want to prove something we just don't know exactly what it was. Maybe he was trying to prove that he does not need money or any materialistic objects to be happy or maybe he was showing his parents he could have lived a happy life without going to college (they forced him to go) and that they just wasted their money .

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Not everyone agreed with Chris’ choices, especially his parents. His parents were supportive of his decisions but didn’t like the fact that he was going to be going on a road trip and they wouldn’t be seeing him all the time. But what they didn’t know is that they were the main reason why he was leaving in the first place. Before Chris was born, “Walt’s split from his first wife, Marcia, was not a clean or amicable parting. When Chris was born, his father still had a relationship going on with Marcia in secret, dividing his time between the two households, and the two families.”

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He wanted full disconnect from the world, fully he didn't want no contact with anyone. “The fact that Chris never bothered to let his family, specifically his parents, know where he was when he was gone for two years” (Jessica Robbins, 2012) she says she doesn't believe he did it on purpose but i feel like he did, the fact he found the truth about his parents is when he felt like his parents now feel about having no clue to where he may be i think he wanted to make his parents feel some of the pain he's felt so he hides himself from the very start. For instance, in the movie you

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The past experiences of the main character, Chris McCandless, had an extraordinary effect on his life and the gradual end he met in Fairbanks bus 142. Between Chris and his father, Walt, there was a lot of tension. Chris had always been livid towards his father for his actions that put a massive strain on the whole family. Ever since that tragic event occurred, Chris’s childhood was never the same. This event influenced his personality, similar to how his early exposure to the wild also impacted him.

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One reason Chris left that I agree with is because he had an abusive home. He would always hear his mom scream because she was being abused by his dad. He couldn't deal with it anymore so he left without anyone knowing where he went. Another reason he left was because he is a grown man and doesn't want to live at home anymore.

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There were many people he met who tried to talk Chris out of it but since it was just him he never really listened. Shaun Callarman is just one of many people who agree with my ideas of who Chris really was. Shaun says, “I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense,

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But he abandoned his family because he wanted to be alone. 3.His relationship with his dad was negatively affected and also outside too. They appear to want chris to be a successful student even though meanwhile his inside was appearance and especially walter and was an abusive father. He was selfish around him and others because he thinks his family was fake towards him.

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Chris had a huge impact on everyone he knew, but he would not let them influence him or his decisions at all. He rebelled against his family because his father was too controlling. Later on, when any of his companions told him not to go to Alaska, or tried telling him to do anything that he did not want to, he would totally ignore them, and change the subject. As Krakauer writes in chapter 6, “McCandless…relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it. He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family.

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Chris seemed to become someone who was untrusting of others. I think this was caused by his parents. Chris never really saw eye to eye with his parents especially his father and after Chris learned of his father’s past double life his relationship with his parents had begun to deteriorate. A quote from his mother said “‘He seemed mad at us more often, and he became more withdrawn-no, that’s not the right word. Chris wasn’t ever withdrawn.

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He wanted to divorce his parents and flee from society. “No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.” (Chris pg.163). Chris had been gone for two years living off the land and a few bags of rice to get him by. He had all the freedom in the world and then he started to realize that everyone makes mistakes.

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Rather than being selfless, McCandless risky behaviour is exceedingly selfish, cutting himself off entirely from his family, who for two years didn’t even know if he was alive. There’s no question that this was Chris’s intention—that he somehow wanted to cut his parents from his life and punish them at the same time “McCandless was thrilled to be on his

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Based on a real story, Into the Wild can make us think from different perspectives about what the main character Christopher McCandless did. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a dramatic but also remarkable story from a young, newly graduated, college student that escaped for a long wild journey but never came back. As time passes throughout the book, the reader may notice how the main character interacts with society and nature, finally McCandless dies in the wild but even though he was struggling for survival he died happy. Some people never get out of their comfort zone, others are tired of it and retire from their comfort zone to have different experiences in life, some are good enough or some are terrible.

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