Into the Wild Some may believe that Chris McCandless went into the wild to escape the toxic relationship with his parents, but the real reason he left everything was to escape from the people that were trying to give him everything. Chris was a person that did not believe in the materialistic things. He believed in humanity and freedom.
Chris McCandless reminds me of the younger sister in his book How Much Land Does a Man Need. The younger sister believed in earning from working. The younger sister states “Though a peasants life is not a fat one, it is a long one. We shall never grow rich, but we shall always have enough to eat.”(Tolstoy 14-25). Chris rejected the materialistic things like money which he burned before he took off into the wild. He left everyone that was trying to help him become successful.
Part of an excerpt from Walden by Henry Thoreau 1845 relates to Chris. Henry Thoreau states “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live sturdily and spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close..”(Thoreau 22-25). Chris did not have a plan of what he wanted to do. He got the necessary items that he thought he would need and took off. His only thought was to survive on his own in the wild.
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He had no map or agenda. His dream was to live the Alaskan adventure. He took many odd jobs many of his bosses would ask him to stay or insist on giving him supplies for his journey. Many times he would not accept. In the article from Adam Read it states “he reached his final destination on April 28, 1992 in Fairbanks Alaska”(Read 25). Four months later he found Fairbanks city transit bus 142 which was on the stampede trail. Where he died from eating the wrong berries. After he died 19 days later his body was found by local hunters. His parents later left a memorial at the bus