Chris McCandless was a man who was unhappy with the society he lived in.
He hated when his parents bought him expensive things, like cars, when there were people in the world that can't afford to feed themselves. He also dealt with that fact that his father was having children with his old wife when he was married to another woman, which greatly upset Chris’s opinion of his father. Another person who was upset with the society he lived in was William Wallace. Wallace lived in a time when his homeland, Scotland, was claimed by the king of England, Edward I. As a
Scotsman, he felt that being ruled by the English was unjust. So he led a full blown rebellion against him, fighting for an independent Scotland.
Now, you may think that McCandless and Wallace have little to no things in
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While Chris did not lead a military rebellion, he did rebel against a society he didn't fully believe in, like Wallace. And Wallace followed his inner feelings, like Chris, to do what he thought was the right thing to do.
But the thing with Chris is that he didn't really try to make a difference in the world he lived in, he decided to just go in the wilderness and pretend that all the problems in the world just didn't exist when he was off by himself, or at least, that's what I felt when I read about him. On the other hand, Wallace did what at this time in history was accepted as a just way to express the change in a government, armed rebellion.
And not only did he start it, he led battles and risked his life for his cause.
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One thing that both Chris and Wallace do have in common is that they died in their quests. When William Wallace died for his cause, he became a martyr in the eyes of his countrymen, and arguably because of him, Scotland did eventually gain its independence. While Chris’s death was met with mixed feelings. Some