Chris McCandless was born into an “upper-middle-class” life courtesy of the hard work of his father. Although he often rebuked wealth, he was given opportunities only possible through his family’s small wealth such as his education and his knack for business. However, it was this exposure to money that allowed McCandless to form his own opinions and the unnecessary value placed on social status leading to his life in the wild. He left the confines of his structured life to live out in nature as an escape from the world he was born into. No matter his opinion on the wealth his family earned, ultimately McCandless’s life could not help but be shaped by it.
After being told many times that he would not be able to survive in the Alaskan wilderness, Chris McCandless had finally proved everyone wrong. He established his bearing in the woods and was successfully making it through the days. At last, he was on the
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He spent most of his adult life trying to stray as far from it as he could because he believed that was the only way he could live a full happy life. The true irony in McCandless’ beliefs lies in the fact that he believed society would undoing yet it was being so far away from it which caused his demise. Once he was trapped in the wild it was when he had no hope of survival. He could never have and long and full life because he chose to cut all ties to the society he believed was evil.
Chris soon began to starve out in the wilderness. His usual chipper attitude was replaced by a real fear of the danger he was in. He is in no condition to even move around to go looking for help and has lost all hope of survival. While his issues began with the cut off access to the real world because of the dangerous river, they only multiplied once he started to starve making him realize there was almost no chance of him making it out of the wild