Examples Of Coming Of Age In Into The Wild

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The story Into The Wild is a coming of age story that has many examples of Chris McCandless growing up on his adventures in the west U.S. Chris was a very self driven person, and had always been independent most of his life.From being captain of his high school track team to having a 4.0 in college, and moving on to law school to become a lawyer. He was always seen as an extremely mature and stubborn person for his age, and that might have all but been his down fall in Alaska. A great example of this in the book would be when Krakauer the author said this about Chris “He became convinced that humans had devolved into progressively inferior beings,” this a prime example of how Chris though of others, and especially his father. Chris had always