Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Selfish

Into The Wild Essay

Would you be willing to leave the life you’ve had before, in exchange for a moment of adventure, adrenaline, and a lifetime of memories? Into the wild, is a book about a young man named Chris McCandless and his extreme journey to Alaska and the many risks and near-death experiences he’s faced. In doing so would you be seen as noble and brave, or would you be seen as reckless, arrogant, and a wako? Some would say he’s noble, courageous, and brave, but McCandless is reckless, arrogant, and a wako because he was ill-prepared for his extreme journey and emotionally detached.

From the beginning of the book about McCandless’s journey, we can see that he is ill-prepared for this extreme journey he’s embarking on. For

To illustrate, when he found out about his father's double life, he was furious as his sister reveals, “Chris’s smoldering anger, it turns out, was fueled by a discovery he’d made two summers earlier, during his cross-country wanderings. When he arrived in California, he’d visited the El Se-gundo neighborhood where he’d spent the first six years of his life. He called on a number of old family friends who still lived there, and from their answers to his queries, Chris pieced together the facts of his father’s previous marriage and subsequent divorce —facts to which he hadn’t been privy. Walt’s split from his first wife, Marcia, was not a clean or amicable parting. Long after falling in love with Billie, long after she gave birth to Chris, Walt continued his relationship with Marcia in secret, dividing his time between two households, two families. Lies were told and then exposed, begetting more lies to explain away the initial deceptions. Two years after Chris was born, Walt fathered another son—Quinn McCandless —with Marcia. When Walt’s double life came to light, the revelations inflicted deep wounds. All parties suffered terribly”(Karkeuer, 84-85). Chris was indeed emotional in this part of the story however, after this, he changed and became emotionally detached. He started to not really want to form relationships with anyone and even started cutting off his parents from his life. Farther down chris’s

For example, when Maccadless’s body was found by the troopers, they stated that “When they flew away, they took McCandless’s remains, a camera with five rolls of exposed film, the SOS note, and a diary —written across the last two pages of a field guide to edible plants— that recorded the young man’s final weeks in 113 terse, enigmatic entries”(Krakauer, 12). This was noble because he documented his life and wrote diary entries and took photos of his adventures. He was able to get thoses life experiences that many cannot and he made great memories. That is admirable to some others because of his journey. This could also be brave since he decided to do this journey with so little supply and so little knowledge. On the contrary, however, this is reckless and arrogant because in the end, he died alone and in a state that told us that his knowledge was not enough to survive and that his stubbornness eventually lead to his death. To illustrate, we can see by the autopsy performed on him that, “Virtually no subcutaneous fat remained on the body, and the muscles had withered significantly in the days or weeks prior to death. At the time of the autopsy, McCandless’s remains weighed sixty-seven pounds. Starvation was posited as the most probable cause of death” (Krakauer 12). This information alone is almost enough to say that he was unprepared for his journey. Throughout the story, we