Was Christopher Mccandless Insane

Into The Wild A few people of the society may think that Christopher McCandless was insane for his actions and the consequences never came to his mind. I believe that Christopher McCandless traveled into the Alaskan wilderness for a variety of reasons, but the evidence shows two main ones. Although McCandless was able to survive for just about 4 months in the Alaskan wilderness, it is only acceptable to claim that his philosophical beliefs and his bad rebellion of youth and risk-taking tendencies was the cause of his departure. McCandless was was known for showing the signs of being a Transcendentalist at his last days. Connecting your spirit to nature is something that Transcendentalist believe in doing. I think what McCandless did was inspired

One of the had to be by his outrageous rebellion of youth & his risk-taking tendencies. In Krakauer's text “Into The Wild” McCandless was offered new gear, Krakauer stated “Gallien, a union worker who was the last person to see McCandless, offered to drive Alex, McCandless, all the way to Anchorage, buy him some decent gear… ‘No thanks anyway,’ Alex replied.” (Krakauer 6). McCandless showed his philosophical believes and took a risk in this action because instead of getting free gear that would help him, he declined the offer. I feel like if Christopher McCandless took the offer from Gallien that he might have at least lived a longer life instead of dying so young at the age of

He felt that he could live by himself in the wilderness without them, which didn't workout that way. In Krakauer's novel he mentions McCandless “wanted to prove to himself that he could make it own his own, without anybody else’s help.” (Krakauer 159) which shows how rebellious McCandless really was. I think if he wasn’t so rebellious and had different philosophical views that he wouldn’t have made the actions he did to go into the Alaskan wilderness and would've lived a normal