Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

Christopher Johnson “Chris” McCandless wan an American hiker. He ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992, with little food and equipment, hoping to live simply for a time in solitude from the poison of civilization. In attempt to escape the discomfort cause by society and his family, Christopher McCandless sets off on a two-year trek across the country, where he changed himself into “Alex super-tramp.” “McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or world at large but to explore the inner country of his own soul” (Krakauer182). Krakauer realizes that McCandless’s journey wan because of his desire to find happiness and enjoy life that way he felt life should be experienced. Going out into the wilderness by himself,

“It’s important to feel strong, not necessarily to be strong” (Krakauer120). Krakauer believes because of what McCandless been through at a young age, where his father and mother would fight and him and his sister would have to watch. McCandless use to act strong in front of his sister while he uses to feel ignored and no one to help him. In April 1992, McCandless walked into the Alaska wilderness, where he survived for more than 100 days before perishing in an abandoned bus. McCandless challenged himself to prove that he was strong not just to his sister but to himself and also many other people. Through a tumultuous childhood, the McCandless siblings clung to each other amidst a chaotic home life, forming a lifelong bond and an unbreakable trust. Chris’s resenting his parents because of his father, Walt’s, long-kept secret of his affair with Chris’s mother, Billie, while Walt was already married to another woman- which went against Chris’s moral code completely. Chris McCandless decided to isolate himself from the ones he wants loved and in an attempt to find himself. “I wanted movement and not a calm course of existences, I wanted excitement and danger and the chances to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt a super abundances of energy which found no outlet in our quite life” (Krakauer186). Krakauer believes that McCandless main reason to reinvent himself and have an

“I now walk into the wild” (Krakauer96). The fact that Chris known the risks of going into the wild, he doesn’t want to die, but to embrace the adventure, knowing that his margins for error is very slight, and that this was worth it. Chris McCandless wanted to know what it was like to off the land in the wilderness, choosing to go with only ten pounds of rice, a rifle and a book on wild plants. He found out what it was like to live in the wilderness lonely and hard. “Some people walk away quietly into empty space trying to close the gaps of the past because they don’t feel like they doesn’t deserve to be loved” (Krakauer135). McCandless believes that if the outcome of a challenge is predicted than its not a