But it was showed that his relationship with his parental figures was not ideal and he refuses any gifts from them and then randomly disappears which apparently doesn't worry his parents. But maybe he was selfish for disobeying his parents' feelings to shower their son with love, maybe Chris was trying to show his parents that he could be independent on his own. One of the reasons why he didn't keep contact with his parents or the people he met on the way of his personal adventure was because he was afraid of their disapproval. In the epilogue, it stated that his parent really did care about him and it showed their friend when they were on the bus realizing their son was dead. The three people he befriended was Jan Burress, Ronald Franz, and Wayne Westerberg, they offered him help but he denied every offer they had.
Mccandless a bright educated man full of compassion gave up luxuries and comfort to pursue the love he had for adventure. Many words can describe Chris’s Identity of who he was and how he became the ways the book describes him. I would say that self reliance and survival. Early in the book Chris was showing symptoms of self reliance. Such as depending
Here’s the story of a tragically dysfunctional family. Once there was an affluent man named GB Smith who lived in a blooming city called Galt. Over the course of his lifetime, Smith acquired great prosperity by manipulating people for his own benefit. Although Smith was born into a wealthy family, he opened a store that
After graduating from college Chris seemed to change. He said things like “an epic journey that would change everything”, that he saw college as “an absurd and onerous duty”, and that heading on this adventure made him feel free “from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world or abstraction and security and material excess”. Some people may say that Chris had struggles with his family “”From the things he said, you could tell something wasn’t right between him and his family…..””(Krakauer 18). But in reality I think it was something more. I feel like he was done having his family provide for him, ““I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect””(Krakauer
Chris McCandless may seem like a typical boy who hated his family and wanted to get away, but in reality he was so much more. He was in a sense, a paradox, because he had such conflicting emotions. He cared deeply for many people and always tried to help anyone he could, yet he was a hurt individual who was somewhat self-destructive. Chris was a transcendentalist who was trying to find peace and truth in the wild, not a psychopath, but an emotionally scarred man who learned something very valuable and found what he was looking for before he died. Above everything else, Chris was trying to find truth in nature because he felt like he had been lied to his whole life, while living in society.
Chris spent his life surrounded by people. Whenever someone was around, didn’t matter who, he would start up a conversation. He was a real people pleaser, always telling stories
The problem with showing the viewer that Chris is this wonderful person all the time is that it’s fake. Showing the character’s his faults makes him more relatable. On top of that Chris is very intriguing on his outlooks of the life he lives adding a sort of mysterious enigma to his character. “Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; other fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity—and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received” (Krakauer – Author’s Note).
Chris was on a journey to find out how life is without the normal things people needed. Throughout the story I focused on his decisions and how he would react to negative outcomes. When I read that Chris had burnt the rest of his money I knew he had made a bad mistake. Even though he might not have needed the money it would have been some sort of insurance and security just knowing you'll be able to buy food when you're close to starvation. Chris failed to do so and I feel like his death was an outcome to that decision.
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”-Albert Einstein. Chris McCandless had to find out who he truly was as an individual by leaping out into the wild and isolating himself. The inspirations of Jack London, Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy guided Chris into the wild of the unknown to search for true bliss and meaning to his life. He believed that that in order to be one with oneself you must remove yourself out of society and push yourself physically and mentally to take in and comprehend the fullest understanding of life. Chris grew up never worrying about money, easily relating to Tolstoy in the sense of their family being well supported.
So, rather than living his life wishing he could be free from society and out in the wild, he followed his passion and died happily. That is not at all a waste of his life or a suicidal mission, that is something to be proud of, and Chris is someone to look up to. He followed his dreams and many people would like to do just that. They want to live his truly transcendental lifestyle because of it’s simplistic way of life and disconnecting with society and connecting with nature, which is the basis of
He was always searching for way to improve himself to be the best man that he could be. Although he spent a lot of time over seas fighting for our country, Chris was also very devoted to his family. He had two kids nicknamed “Bubba” and “Angel”. They were the light of his life. He was a very thoughtful, loving, and caring husband to his wife Taya
Most people look down upon Chris’s lifestyle and find it foolish, although this lifestyle has its flaws in the long term, this way of life carries a sense of beauty and nonconformity that most people will never understand. This lifestyle is not only full of beautiful and adventure but it gives life experiences that are worth more than money could buy. When Jon asked about Chris to one of his former co workers she replied with, “When he talked, he was always going on about trees and nature and weird stuff like that. We all thought he was missing a few screws” (40 Krakauer). Although Chris may come off as “missing a few screws” he was actually very intelligent
The Plot: The film and the book do not tell the story in a chronological order, but if we see the path of Chris organized in order of facts it goes like this: In 1990, he graduates from University and rejects the money his parents gave to him and rejects all the lifestyle he had. He donates his money and without telling his family he is going on an adventure.
He was not concerned with the trivial details of life that most people would have. He constantly tried to get away from society. Chris never wanted to stay in a place for too long. He had a mentality of “Don’t come closer or I’ll have to go / Holding me like gravity are places that pull” (Vedder, Guaranteed). Whenever Chris got close to someone he would always leave.
He also endures hunger, exhaustion, and nature’s most challenging hardships to attain his happiness. Chris McCandless does what most people in normal society are too afraid to do. He does everything possible, including giving
