Into The Wild was a tremendous story which Shaun Callarman did not have many positive things to say about Chris McCandless, the main character. He went on this adventure to find out what life is all about in his own eyes. He wanted to see how different living in the wild really was compared to society because he was not satisfied with his living arrangements and household. Shaun’s quote says that he thinks “Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness.
Into the wild, is a book by Jon Krakauer that later got turned into a film by Sean Penn, it follows the life of Christopher McCandless, who graduated from Emory University as a top student and athlete with wealthy pushing parents. Instead of continuing his life as a working man of society and taking his offers at top law schools, he decides to ultimately completely disconnect himself from society and instead tries to find his own meaning of life in the wild. Shaun Callarman says “ I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time.” and i really agree with him on that because even though he left his college a top student the way he wanted to completely disconnect himself the way he did was ignorant. Not only that In the movie it clearly shows that even though he didn't want to connect with people on his journey to alaska he did, I think that if he wouldn't have been so set on being alone and not being attached to others he wouldn't have died the way he did.
Into the Wild In, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless’ character is portrayed as self - reliant and extremely unmaterialistic. Throughout the novel you learn about his past and the reason he became the person he was. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer characterizes Christopher McCandless as individualistic and careless. Chris McCandless, even in his early teen years rejected money and the idea of wealth. A symbol of this is when his parents offer to buy him a new car and he says the old Datsun is, “A great car, i don’t want a new car.”
Into The Wild: Justifying Chris McCandless “Chris was fearless… He didn’t think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the edge,” was how Walt McCandless described his ambiguous son before he abandoned everything his father had given him and left for a fresh nomadic life (qtd. in Krakauer 109). In 1990, a young man by the name of Chris McCandless graduated, with honors, from Emory University.
In the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless had many decisions to leave his old life behind and start over. Chris’ decision to leave was justified for the following reasons. When he suddenly disappeared, it made it easier for him to let go of his past and focus on what he wants to do in the future. McCandless could make all his own decisions, nobody had a chance to tell him that he could not leave and certainly did not allow anyone to find out where he was going. Finally he didn’t agree to social norms.
Chris McCandless was sent to college by his parents, some families simply can’t afford college for their children. So the children must work hard for them to be able to go to college and with that time they are working many jobs, they will not have the free time to go out into nature to explore and experience. Unlike Chris, on page 116 of Into the Wild, it says, “As soon as high school was over, Chris declared, he was going to
(P.115) after reaching their fortune, they bought a townhouse on the bay and a sailboat. They took their kids to europe, skiing in Breckenridge, on a caribbean cruise. Billie, chris's mother, acknowledged that, “Chris was embarrassed by all of that.”(P.115) Jon krakauer, the author of Into the Wild, discovered that Chris believed that wealth was shameful, corrupt and inherently evil.
Into the Wild is a point of view experience in the travels of Chris McCandless. There is an up lose and personal encounter of all of Chris’s characteristics and decisions. Chris was very unorthodox and had a different way of taking on obstacles along his journey. He did not have many friends, always keeping to himself all through college at Emory University.
Into The Wild portrays a man who went on a fatal unforgettable journey through the alaska wilderness. Chris McCandless was a man with great courage and the ability to live on his own made him more of a hero going on his fatal journey. Many would say he was foolish or not thinking right, but that is not the case. The case here is simply a man with courage wanting to fulfill is beliefs through his journey. One may ask what is courage.
Into The Wild was a tremendous story which Shaun Callarman did not have many positive things to say about Chris McCandless, the main character. He went on this adventure to find out what life is all about in his own eyes. He wanted to see how different living in the wild really was compared to society because he was not satisfied with his living arrangements and household. Shaun’s quote says that he thinks “Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness.
Additionally he points out the “[…] false security, parents […]” (Into the Wild), in a row because he is hurt by the fact, that his father has another family elsewhere and that he is not officially separated from this woman. Chris McCandless wants something else, something real and therefore he leaves his old life behind to seek for his idealistic
Kevin Sun Mrs. Cohen English 2CP --D February 22, 2018 Another Perspective The film Into the Wild is based on the life of Chris McCandless, a young man who rejected the consumerist society of America in order to live a more simple life. Through his travels, Chris carried essays by Transcendentalist philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, suggesting that McCandless is impacted by Transcendentalist ideals. Two key tenets of Transcendentalism that clearly influenced McCandless’ choices are the value of simplicity and the importance of self-reliance.
In Penns movie, Into the Wild, He left his parents, and multiple people he met along his journey. People would grow attached to Chris, like the free spirited couple he met on the road and the old man who loved him so much he wanted to adopt him, but Chris was selfish and left. He wanted to go to Alaska so badly that he just wanted to leave his whole life behind. Chris trying to leave society makes his disregard the rules and laws that society put in place. To kayak down a river Chris needed a license but when he applied the waitlist was too long so he disregarded the waitlist and went kayaking down the river.
Into the Wild portrays freedom in a sense that Christopher McCandless wants to venture out into the world, even though he had it all. Chris changes his way of life as he gives all of his personal items away as well as; $25,000 from his bank account, his car, and eventually his life. Reasons being that he leaves and does this, is due to the fact that he wants to be on his own and does not want people to depend on him as well as him having the feeling of having to require the obligations of the people around him. Chris had his next two years of college already paid for him by his family. Chris then goes on to tell his parents “I think I’m going to disappear for a while.”
Into the Wild shows how Chris’s contemptuous attitude towards society . It also shows the importance of family/friends/human relations and the dangers of isolating yourself from them and society. Because as a species, humans have evolved over time and human interaction has become a basic need for survival, without them we have the capability of going insane just like Chris had. The film also teaches that relationships, whether good or bad has always had the tendency to teach us life lessons, and without these life lessons we wouldn’t know how to deal with the circumstances life throws at us. Jack from ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding also suffers the consequences of fulfilling his baser desires, neglecting the consequences of this on him and the people around him.
