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Was Chris Mccandless Justified In Into The Wild

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Going into the wild with no preparation, no food, no water nor resources, and no plan on what to do sounds interesting and a big decision to do. It mostly sounds crazy but not for Chris Mccandless, he did just that in the book “Into the wild”. The short summary of it is that he went out and found it better to live out in the wild, the main issue was his selfish and problematic decision to everyone and everything behind. I believe Chris Mccandless was justified in leaving his family and going into the wilderness, some of it wasn’t justified but I feel mostly in his rightful decision. One reason is that he is a grown man, hes factually an adult and can make these decisions for himself. So him making that choice for himself is understandable with the …show more content…

The decision to go out on your own fully takes a lot to do, I don’t think any person with that determination could go out like that for a long time. Another reason to add is that he also had an abusive family, mostly his father, so since with that he had a pretty good reason for leaving his family and disappearing. I think as long as he made a smart route in the situation instead of out of the blue just leaving with just stubbornness, but he had good reasons so I thing it’s alright in that matter. 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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