Christopher Mccandless Family In Into The Wild

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After reading chapter 12 of Into the Wild and watching interviews on Return to the Wild, it can be concluded that Christopher McCandless endured an inimical lifestyle due to the absence and callow decisions of his parents. As stated by the person McCandless had the closet relationship with, his sister, Carine McCandless, the kids had to live in a toxic household with a minimum presence of their parents (Return to the Wild). This shows that the pernicious lifestyle experienced by McCandless and his sister likely played a major role in his decision to go into the wilderness. No matter how important it is to live with family members in the early stages of life, no one wants to live a life filled with parents who fight a lot and are controlling. This is evidently shown in the movie Udaan when a man named Rohan leaves his household

Both of these examples lead to the belief that Rohan’s and McCandless’s parents, more specifically their dad, were guilty for their children’s actions. To illustrate this, Krakauer states that “... all parties suffered terribly” due to Walt McCandless’s affair with Chris’s mother while he was still married to another woman (Krakauer 121). It can be said that McCandless’ father’s actions were selfish because he failed to acknowledge how his actions would impact his family’s future. Due to his failure to acknowledge the harmful effects on his family members, he was guilty for the actions McCandless took because it made McCandless only feel pain when he was with his parents. Not only this, but he went as far as to say that his parent’s behavior were “... irrational… oppressive… disrespectful and insulting” (Krakauer 64). McCandless thought that his parents were controlling and became scornful towards their expectations for him. Instead of trying to be authoritative, his dad should have been more genuine, but he lacked that ability to try to sympathize with his son which resulted in McCandless’s decision to go into