How Does Mccandless Create Tension In Chapter 2 Of Into The Wild

When a person is both arrogant and ignorant, it makes people overconfident and unprepared out of excitement. In Into The Wild, it says, “McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he is relieved as well—relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it. He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. 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." (Into the Wild, 55). In Chapter 2 of Into the Wild, the reader sees Chris shows how he longs for peace, “Alaska has long been a magnet

In both cases, Chris keeps choosing to ignore people who care about him. He was not physically or mentally prepared. Surviving in the harsh conditions of the Alaskan bush is extremely risky, as it could mean a matter of life or death. Only mountain climbing skills aren't gonna help with months of different cultures and different weather. The change will later catch up and bite him on the butt. It is easy for the reader to see the problem with not being prepared. Later on in life, being unprepared will end harshly and it will cause you to wake up to reality. Just like in to build a fire, “He knew that at fifty below, the spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air” (332, London, Jack), He didn't care whether he survived, he was there in the moment and that's what counted. He waited too long to care and tried to actually live to see another day. They both have overconfidence and were unprepared, which leads to negative consequences for them being both arrogant and

Though Christopher McCandless attempted to separate himself from society, in order to achieve self-fulfillment, the stubborn nature of this reckless greenhorn led him to his unfortunate demise. Christopher McCandless’ stubborn personality causes him to leave a loving home in order to start a new beginning as “Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny '' (Krakauer 23). Chris “let them think they were right”, so they would think that he was seeing “their side of things'' when he was merely waiting for the right time to completely “knock them out of happiness only real when shared” (189) In a way we all can have high egos. We just need to learn how to handle our egos and understand when it is a good time to lower our egos. Overall, Chris’s ego and his stupid boldness really lead him to his death in the end. All because he couldn’t lower his ego for at least a minute to listen to someone's advice and see if maybe they were right or if their advice can affect him. In conclusion, when young people are both arrogant and ignorant, it leads them to be overconfident, engage in dangerous tasks, become very selfish, and think they are right all the