Elijah Greenup Mrs. Moffat English 5-6 11 January 2023 Was Chris Justified? Have you ever thought about life and decided to change for happiness? In John Krakauer's book, Into The Wild, Chris McCandles, an explorer, leaves his past behind and goes out into the wild to live the life he enjoys. Some people think it was stupid of him, I believe that Chris is justified for going into the wild. Growing up, Chris was the eldest of his siblings. Carine, his younger sister, Sam, his younger brother, and Quinn, his other younger brother. Chris' dad, Walt, was a very abusive father who was rarely there as he lived a double life. Chris’s mom, Billie, had been beaten by Walt verbally and physically. However, Krakauer was not able to include this into the book because Carine did not want him to. However, on page 64, Krakauer states “Chris writes a letter to Carine about how he was going to “divorce his parents.” This shows that Chris was tired of them from the …show more content…
He got introduced to it in a harsh way at a young age with the money and a very abusive father. I think at some point Chris had decided before he graduated college that he wanted to live an outsider type of life, away from society. He wasn’t the only person that wanted to explore nature. Hundreds of people have wanted to live like that because the real world can be a lot sometimes. It's an escape from the real world and just being one with nature. In the book on page 56-58, Chris writes to Westerberg, “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” This shows why Chris likes being outside with nature so much away from everyone. He didn't want to stay in one spot and do the same things in his life, he wanted to change it up. If Chris didn't feel happy with his life, but only felt happy in nature, why wouldn't he leave into the