Why Is Chris Mccandless Journey Into The Wild

Christopher Johnson McCandless is a person one cannot forget after hearing about his unique adventure into the wild. After Christopher graduating from high school he did no take the usual path as a teenager would. He decided to take his savings and donate in to a charity. Then take the rest of his money burn it and leave the rest of his belongs in his car. Then from that moment his wild adventure into the wild began. Christopher was not your average person at all. His ways of processing, accomplishing, and analyzing situations and life was very risky. Since Chris was a far different person than your average human being. He had many different characteristics to himself. McCandless’ non-traditional views of life led him to misjudge the outcome

Chris on his journey struggled with many things since he was all on his own and only had help from a few people. Westernberg was on of the few people chris new and grew close to on his journey. Westernberg was constantly helping Chris and always providing him with stuff like jobs and places to live, but when it came to work with mechanics Chris struggled to adapted to the new skills. Westernberg constantly tried to help Chris and teach him new things like operate machines but it was hard for him since he has not been around machines much. In this situation it seems that even Westernberg has acknowledged that Chris does not have common sense. For example, “Nor was McCandless endowed with a surfeit of common sense” (Krakauer Into the Wild 62). Friendships he had made along the way of his journey seems that they got to know him and seen he struggles with common sense. Not only did Chris struggle with learning new skills he struggled living home alone and operating is kitchen appliances. For example, “I opened the microwave, and the bottom of it was filled with rancid grease. Alex had been using it to cook chicken, and it never occurred to him that the grease had to drain somewhere” (Krakauer Into the Wild 63). It seems that Chris also struggles using kitchen appliances and their true function. Although Chris is very intelligent it seems that he struggles with simple things. Even Westernberg can see how much he struggles when he comes to his apartment and how his apartment sticks. For example, “I went over to the house, walked into the kitchen, and noticed a god-awful stink” (Krakauer Into the Wild 63). Chris seems to be struggling living alone at his place. Throughout the book Chris seems to see Westernberg as a father figure. Since he is always caring and helping for Westernberg and not asking much about his past like other people. Throughout