Into The Wild Analysis

Different Perspectives The generic idea of society reflects people having the desire to fulfill their dreams; however, in Mccandless’ case, it was very peculiar because his dream was approached differently than most people. Generally speaking, people are civilized and usually dream about becoming successful, instead of going out into the wilderness and testing their limits, both physically and mentally. In Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer, a young man named Chris McCandless died when he was twenty-four years old because of starvation. McCandless graduated from high school and found himself conflicted with the relationship between him and his father, which drove him to become an independent young man who went out and ventured in

He started off his journey by hitchhiking and luckily, he met a very friendly union electrician named Jim Gallien, who happened to be going the same direction where McCandless wanted to be dropped off. Both of them were gregarious for a couple of hours, and Gallien started to think that Chris was very astute, instead of a nutcase. For instance, “Alex admitted that the only food in his pack was a ten-pound bag of rice. Alex’s cheap leather hiking boots were neither waterproof nor insulated. His rifle was only .22 caliber, a bore too small to rely on if he expected to kill larger animals like moose and caribou, which he would have to eat if he hoped to remain very long in the country. He had no ax, no bug dope, no snowshoes, no compass” (Krakauer 5). This displays that Mccandless was very arrogant because he was too positive that he would be able to survive with the lack of right equipment and only having a limited supply of food. Also, Mccandless did not envision how dangerous it would be in the Alaskan wild due to his contumacious nature and never thought that he would have been derelict. This is negligent of McCandless because people are usually prepared to go on trips with the right amount of proper gear; however, this was a bad idea because he was not used to the environment. Another example that displays his foolishness could be found when McCandless

Some argue that Chris Mccandless was noble and in fact he was. “McCandless was candid with Stuckey about his intent to spend the summer alone in the bush, living off the land. ‘He said it was something he’d want to do since he was little,’ says Stucky. ‘Said he didn’t want to see a single person, no airplanes, no sign of civilization.’ He wanted to prove himself that he could make it on his own, without anybody’s help” (Krakauer 159). This concludes that McCandless wants to do something on his own for once, and he wants to prove to everyone that he doesn’t need help to survive. He wants to be an independent person experiencing the wild; this demonstrates that he was very brave because people usually have the desire to do something they really want, but here McCandless is actually attempting to do something alone. People usually fear of living alone without civilization, but it was very noble of him to do such a thing because sometimes people are too afraid of doing things alone or to actually achieve their real dreams. He is a very brave person because in this world, people are standing in the streets begging for money, whereas McCandless went out of his own way to figure out what to do and how to handle the situation without being a bother to anyone. Although this may be true, some may argue that he was a reckless fool. “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me