Chris at one point wrote a letter to his sister before his disappearance saying “I’m going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live.” (Into The Wild Summary, Cliff Notes, Chapter
Chris wanted to live his life and find who he really is. He wasn’t becoming who he wanted to be. He was super smart, athletic, and went to a good college. His family had a lot of money and he did not care for money at all. He wanted his own life.
I think he just saw it has an opening and once he finally understood and saw the opening he used that as a justifiable persecution on leaving. Chris father kinda manipulated in a way since he wanted Chris to be a successful student and person, but inside he was was an abusive father, so that’s quite justified. I believe and understand another reason why he isolated himself was that he wanted to find himself and figure out what could make him happy. I think it was a time and opportunity to go out and figure out who he is as a person, and he figured that he was more happier in the wild and in the open nature with no
Most people have someplace they go to get away from drama and bad situations and Chris McCandless’ was the wild. Chris’ family was splitting apart because of his father and his second family. Chris McCandless did not believe in materialistic
At the fault of his father, he reacted rashly. “When Walt’s double life came to light, the revelations inflicted deep wounds. All parties suffered terrible.” This would be a negative turning point in anyone's life, but Chris was wrong to just pack up and take himself to his death.
Chris and his family found solace in the outdoors, and felt safer in the wilderness
After no luck on the interrogators side, Chris is allowed to have some time alone with his dad, in which Chris told him, “I don’t want to protect her” (Denver 7). Chris then went on to explain to his dad that Shannan killed Bella and Celest, and in return he killed Shannan out of anger for what she had done. Despite Chris’ first confession, his words turned out to be false. According to the press release from the Frederick Police Department on Archive.org, He was charged with three counts of murder in the first degree, for murdering his pregnant wife, Shannan, as well as his two kids, Bella, age 4, and Celeste, age 3.
His Dad was abusive to him and his family, especially his mom. All his childhood trauma and events have bottled up inside and he doesn't want anything to do with his parents based on the neglect. On page 64 the letter to Carine says “i'm going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either one of those idiots again as long as I live”. Chris has developed a hatred towards his parents and now that he knows they don’t know where he's at, he has a sort of satisfaction. He found who he
And he dies realizing that he needed his family, he needed happiness, he needed someone to be with, someone to laugh and live with. At the end of it, I believe that McCandless, soon realized that happiness is only real when shared. He had a family, and even though his family wasn't always loving or affectionate. Chris dies slowly and painfully, but with hope that his family is happy.
He had found out his parents weren’t married when they had him and his sister so they were bastard children. He also finds out his father has had an affair with his ex-wife while still being married to his current wife. All this pushes Chris to the point of not ever being around because he morally couldn’t look past it. Before completely disappearing he had wrote his to his sister and talked about how he couldn’t stand his parents. "I'm going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live."
Chris McCandless was never too thrilled over following and living by the rules his parent's imposed. He was always a rebel, following his parents' rules until he could escape to the wild. When they learned of their son's demise in Alaska, they were devastated at most parents would be. They didn't know that the last time they saw Chris, would be their last because of his intention to leave them. Upon Chris disappearing from their lives, they were angry but thought they would see him again.
As a reader you only get Torey’s stories of Chris and what he could be like at times. As the author goes deeper in telling Chris’s story Torey realizes that Chris was a good person who was pressured by so many people to do good, “‘I think Chris snapped. I think he flipped out from a combo of everything. School, being lonely, but mostly because of his parents.’” (47).
The second reason, Chris was reckless because he wanted by himself to leave the house. Doesn’t care about his family. Doesn’t tell anyone and leaves home secretly, he won't tell his family. In the text it says, “It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. ”(9).
He’d successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he’d slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz’s life as well,” every time someone tried to become close to him, he pushed him or her away. When Ronald Franz asked to adopt him, Chris told him that they would talk about it when he returns from Alaska. Chris’ problems with his father affected his ability to form new, close relationships, and ultimately sent him to his death.
Chris’s need to “divorce” his parents was due to the fact that he truly despised the lifestyle that they lived and had, especially since it was fueled by materialism and betrayal. Chris’s father, Walt, lived a double life before and during the first years of Chris’ life. He seemingly had two women at his beck and call, but as soon he got discovered and that lifestyle vanquished for him. Although,
