Into The Wild Essay A lot of people take big chances in their life would you? In the book “Into The Wild”, Jon Krakauer, Christopher McCandless thought that life on the road was a good idea. Not everyone is mentally tough to endure what the world has to offer. There are a lot of pros and cons about life on the road. Can a random person go out on their own, leave everyone and everything behind and survive on the road? Life on the road is not suitable for the regular Joe on the street.
Let's first start off with McCandless’ home life. Christopher's parents were very materialistic, self absorbed and controlling. In this journalist work of nonfiction McCandless wrote to his sister, Carine, and in one of those letter that he had written to her he mentioned something chilling about his parents… Christopher wrote in his letter, “They will think they have bought my respect” (Jon Krakauer Chapter 3). Christopher was mad that his parents that they wanted to buy him a new car for graduating from college. Even though they knew he loved the car he had. He felt like they were manipulating him because he knew it would come with certain expectations
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He had read Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” and was so fascinated by what he had read. In the book Jon Krakauer claims that Christopher sometimes forgot the big picture. Krakauer states, “He was so enthralled by these tales he seemed to forget they were works of fiction” (Jon Krakauer Chapter 5). The author explains christophers thoughts on the book he had once read by Jack London. McCandless overlooked the harsh realities of the brutal Alaskan wilderness. He often chose what he wanted to see, such as the adventure of living in the wilderness. When somebody goes to live in the wild by themselves they forget about the factor of surviving. They just want to live in the moment and be free but the harsh reality is that none of us are made to live off the