Into the Wild
In Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into the Wild , he depicts the story of Chris McCandless and his journey as “Alex Supertramp” across the United States, starting in Georgia and ending with the his death in Alaska. Jon states his argument that Chris wasn’t “stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate” and he tell the story of a young man with a profound moral compass and wants to seek higher truth.
In the novel, Chris left to go into the wilderness right after he graduated from college. He did not let his parents know he was leaving for many reasons. Chris’s anger towards his father that made him want to travel away from Walt McCandless was that he had a completely other family that he was supporting and keeping it a secret from the whole family. In Chapter 7 in the book it states, “I'm
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He indicates that his journey was as vigorous as Chris’s was to Alaska. In Peter Christian’s Criticism of McCandless, he states, ”... most people who make is as far as Alaska never get past the cities of Fairbanks and Anchorage because access is so difficult and expensive...” Peter Christian says it is impossible to get into the wild financially, however, Chris made it to the wilderness with really no money in his pocket and that was his choice to have nothing. According to the article Why the Teen Brain is Drawn to Risk, ” We come into the world with limited knowledge about what kind consequences we will experience…” Regardless if Chris knew he was going to come out of the wilderness alive, he would have changed something he did wrong. He would have learned how to preserve meat and he would not have eaten the seeds. Everyone makes mistakes, but his was a big mistake that can’t be changed. Chris did not know he was going to die when he stepped foot into the Alaskan Frontier. One simple mistake can ruin your life and that plant is what ended Chris’s and it was not his fault that he didn’t know the plant was