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Was Chris Mcandless Justified

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Do you think Chris Mcandless was justified in what he did? The book Into the wild by Jon Krakauer shows the life of Chris Mcandless. I believe that Chris Mcandless was justified in leaving his family. The first reason I think Chris was justified was he had a difficult family life. My next reason is that he was searching for something in life.Lastly, he was an adult and he is allowed to make his own decisions.
My first reason I think Chris was justified was that he had a difficult family life. He felt that he had to get away from them.In the book it says “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” on page 121. This means that in secret Chris’s dad was going …show more content…

My last reason that he was justified is he is an adult and he wanted his own life. On page 23 it says. “No longer would he answer to Chris Mcandless ; he was now Alexander Supertramp,master of his own destiny”. This shows he is old enough to change his name and he allowed to make that decision.
Some people may think that Chris was not justified because he did abandon his family and he told nobody that he was leaving for alaska.He also left his perfect life and many people didn't understand why.On page 2 it says “Hey Guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you. Alexander.Although he did not tell his parents where he was going. He did say this is the last time you'll be hearing from me so they should have seen it

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I think that Chris had a reason to go to Alaska even if it was only a thing that he wanted to do. The final thing that makes me disagree with Callerman’s argument is that he says that McCandless is crazy and I disagree because he was not crazy at all but I do agree because when he was stuck in the wild he was getting crazy because he was alone and he noticed that he couldn’t leave. These are the reasons why I disagree with Callerman’s argument that McCandless is arrogant, and that he had no reason to go to Alaska, and that Chris McCandless is

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McCandless has many reasons for making that decision about leaving his life behind. Chris’s parents had a big impact on why he made this decision. He had many thoughts on his parents. I have many thoughts

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I think he just saw it has an opening and once he finally understood and saw the opening he used that as a justifiable persecution on leaving. Chris father kinda manipulated in a way since he wanted Chris to be a successful student and person, but inside he was was an abusive father, so that’s quite justified. I believe and understand another reason why he isolated himself was that he wanted to find himself and figure out what could make him happy. I think it was a time and opportunity to go out and figure out who he is as a person, and he figured that he was more happier in the wild and in the open nature with no

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In particular Chris Mccandless should be supported for he had things happen to him that led up to the point where he wanted to go into the wild to get away from his old life and created a new one for himself to have more opportunities. Others may think he shouldn’t be supported just because he some bad flaws he had and also that he just left his sister who he actually got along with, but here are some reasons that are logical and reasonable to why Chris Mccandless should be supported. One of the reasons why readers should support Chris McCandless is because he is generous, he gave people inspiration, or felt inspired by others, and like in the book Krakauer tells us “Chris’s Father suggested the boy had probably been inspired. ”(94),his way of living inspired everyone that you can live anyway you want.

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Also, not to mention his dad had a second life and had another child, Chris had to live at both places and take care of both siblings while keeping it a secret from his mom. On page 121 it states “ 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”. I believe that Chris just wanted to get out, leave his toxic childhood behind and no kid should have to go through that. So lastly, he just wanted freedom and to get out and explore.

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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

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The book I'll be talking about is called Into the Wild and the main focus will be about a man named Chris McCandless and his journey into the wild. Was Chris McCandless' journey meaningful or just pointless? I personally think that Chris wasn't justified in what he did because he left everyone behind without a care in the \world. Chris had a lot of things some people would dream of.

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When Chris found out, he didn't confront his parents about the affair, he only acted cold towards them without giving a reason as to why. His father was also very abusive towards his mother, he would hit her in front of him and his sister. He also didn't like the rules in society, or being told what to do. P.115 into the wild by Jon Krakauer, Hathaway said “Chris just didn’t like being told what to do. I think he would have been unhappy with any parents; he had trouble with the whole idea of parents.”

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Numerous People state that Chris McCandless was a very thoughtless individual who made crazy decisions after graduating college. Yet many people found his actions to be inspiring as he risked his life to flee the hectic world that surrounded him. As Chris was raised in a perfect environment, living in wealthy middle-class, His relationship with his parents was very degenerating especially towards his father after he found out his dad cheated on his mother when he was younger. This ultimately led Chris to begin his trip to Alaska so he can find his true-self and to live life how it's meant to be lived.

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Was Chris Justified? In the book into the wild Chris is justified because he was an adult and did not have a very good past with his family and he wanted to find himself and did the things that made him happy. The first reason why Chris was justified because he was 18 still in high school living with his parents in Annandale Virginia around 2 years after was in his early 20s when he left (pg .22) “ by the beginning of August 1990 Chris's parents had heard nothing from him” this shows that Chris is old enough to make his own decisions. As an adult Chris's decision makes sense because he was mentally/physically abused by his mom and dad his dad would physically abuse and his mom would mentally abuse Chris by saying “you're the reason

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He wanted full disconnect from the world, fully he didn't want no contact with anyone. “The fact that Chris never bothered to let his family, specifically his parents, know where he was when he was gone for two years” (Jessica Robbins, 2012) she says she doesn't believe he did it on purpose but i feel like he did, the fact he found the truth about his parents is when he felt like his parents now feel about having no clue to where he may be i think he wanted to make his parents feel some of the pain he's felt so he hides himself from the very start. For instance, in the movie you

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But with his mothers affair and his two life living and abusive father it would make sense how he could go without talking to them for so long. So he should 80% be justified for not telling his parents that he went out to the wild without telling them so. Chris McCanless’s life was far from normal he had complicated parents, meaning his father was living 2 lives. Because he had a different family before Chris was born but he didn't tell Chris's mother or his sons or daughter, and with his father being abusive both verbally and physically. Then on top of that with his mother having an affair it made Chris upset and he really cut off talking to them, it tells us this on page 103 and 121.

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One reason Chris left that I agree with is because he had an abusive home. He would always hear his mom scream because she was being abused by his dad. He couldn't deal with it anymore so he left without anyone knowing where he went. Another reason he left was because he is a grown man and doesn't want to live at home anymore.

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But he abandoned his family because he wanted to be alone. 3.His relationship with his dad was negatively affected and also outside too. They appear to want chris to be a successful student even though meanwhile his inside was appearance and especially walter and was an abusive father. He was selfish around him and others because he thinks his family was fake towards him.

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His dad Walt was very abusive to his family and his other family. In a documentary, Chris’s half sibling said that they would hide under the table or just hide in general whenever Walt came home to visit. Both families were scared of Walt, which is why Chris left because of childhood trauma. He had also lost respect for his dad because of an affair. Due to all this he wanted to leave the household, his parents tried buying his love back with a car but Chris declined.

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