Although you 've may have seen or heard many people taking crazy trips out in the world to accomplish a thing or two you may have even heard of these two guys. For one Adam Shepard wanting to accomplish things he wanted right along as Chris McCandless. Both white males, right along both of them have, a college degree, Chris is being 24 and Adam being 25 years of age. The Motivation for Chris McCandless was that he wanted to show everyone that you didn 't need all that money to get all the materialistic things in life, While Adam Shepherds motivation was to show Barbara Ehrenreich Author of Diamond Nickel that the American Dream was real for everyone . Between who was most admirable out of Chris McCandless or Adam Shepard it would have to be Adam Shepard because what he has done is what everyone wanted to do is to accomplish, The American Dream. During his first 70 days in Charleston, Shepard lived in a shelter and received food stamps. He also made new friends, finding work as a day laborer, which led to a steady job with a moving company. Ten months into the experiment, he decided to quit after learning of an illness in his family. But by then he had …show more content…
The summarize the outcome out of Chris and Adam is that, Chris died before he completed his journey which makes him a failure.“ Happiness is only real when shared “( Into the Wild) Chris then Realized he regretted the journey and realized he was dying . While, Adam did everything he can do and he struggled through the most trying to get where he got and he did it, he completed his Journey in what he wanted to do was, The American Dream. Adam Shepard seemed to be most admirable instead of Chris McCandless all selfish. Chris left people 's life without a care in the world, leaving them heartbroken and then later dying and never getting to see them because of what he chose to do. Adam cared more about what others thought and never just left when he knew he had an impact in their life, this is what makes him more