At the beginning of the movie “Into the Wild”, the main character Chris McCandless graduates from Emory University with honors. After that there are a series of flashbacks where it shows Chris’ family. His family upbringing was fairly good as his father was a member of nasa, but behind closed doors his father was having an affair which he had an entire other family.this scene really gives you an understanding of what Chris was going through mentally, and after the graduation scene it is after this point where he begins to view his parents as the definition of cultural corruption. Shortly after graduation, you see Chris destroys his credit cards, cash, donates his life savings, and adopts the pseudonym Alex Supertramp. After this we see alex