Isaac Swank-Le Period: 1 English 5-6 Was Chris Justified? If you could cut your family out of your life and never have to see them again unless you choose so, would you? Would you take that opportunity? There is a story of someone who did this and was made famous for it in Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild. Chris McCandless, the man who left his life behind, his family was left behind, was he justified in just leaving them without a word. I think Chris McCandless was I think that there was no reason to stop him from leaving. Chris McCandless had a terrible home life, his father Walter McCandless was abusive, his mother Billie McCandless would call them in while it was happening to make them watch. This event is enough to make any child resent …show more content…
Chris didn't know they were his half siblings thinking they were simply family friends until one year where he visited and discovered the exact nature of the “family friend”. The exact quote “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 Sengundo 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”. These factors are what would eventually create Chris’s abhorrence for money, in a quote from the book “I’m going to have to be careful not to accept gifts from them in the future because they will think they’ve bought my respect”. The book …show more content…
And then, once the time is right, with one abrupt, swift action I’m going to completely knock them out of my life. I’m going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live”. Chris McCandless lived most of his life following what his parents wanted for him, with his choice to leave it finally gave him the opportunity to choose to live whatever life he was to remake himself into someone he could be proud of and agree with. This person would become loved living on the road and loved being with nature even