Freedom In Into The Wild

Alex still wanted to go on his Alaskan odyssey, but didn’t leave as soon as he had the chance. The day he left, he told Franz that he needed to go on an adventure himself and experience the world and what it had to offer. Franz asked Alex if he could adopt him when he came back

In in the beginning of the book he gives an anecdote of Chris’s life before he died and how he came to die. Throughout chapter three the author explains his real life that he had before heading into the bush. “In truth McCandless had been raised in the comfortable upper-middle-class environs of Annandale, virginia.”(pg19) This little anecdote explains a lot of chris’s past life and it shows the excitement out of this book of how it could bring these tiny hints out to show more later on. The author gives this sneak peek to make the reader think in his mind and to keep it suspenseful.

Alex hitch hiked along the country for months, when he was in Arcata, California in the redwood forests he stopped on the side of the United States highway 101. Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob noticed him and felt sorry so they offered him a ride. McCandless mentioned he was surviving on edible plant and was tramping around the country having adventures. He was also telling them about how he burned and buried his belongings because he didn’t need them. Hearing and seeing him reminds Jan about her son, who is the same age as McCandless, who she hasn’t seen or talked to for years.

Chris McCandless was your typical college student, very fortunate family had the eligibility of going to many very great schools. The movie Into the Wild follows the life of McCandless, giving a better understanding of his life and his decisions,as well his rise to becoming Alexander Supertramp, but everyone ask why did he venture out into the wild?, even though he wasn't very bush like, he also had many opportunities to have profitable career so why did he decide to leave society, why did he leave all of his opportunities?. McCandless decided to hit life head first, he left everything burned his money, also gave it to charity,cut all of his credit cards and only had the check his parents had written out to him, also McCandless decided to

In addition, Chris McCandles was a man of solitude. He enjoyed the unlimited freedom he had while living away from anything familiar. Chris was so consumed by being cut free from society that he even adopted the alias Alex Supertramp. He exchanged his relationship with people, to enjoy the abundance of  opportunities God surrounded him with. McCandles explains this through a letter he wrote to Ron Franz,  "You are wrong if you think joy emanates only

Who is Chris McCandles Everybody wants to follow their dream and know what the meaning of life is, but not all are brave enough to do that, in fact only a few people actually go on to follow their dream. Into the Wild is a book by Jon Krakauer where a brave boy, Chris McCandless follows his dream despite the risks. Some people think he is dumb and some say he’s brave.

Into the Wild x Transcendentalism While growing up, many young adults realize that they do not agree with what their family’s lifestyle represents and decide that they want to go off on their own and live differently. Similar to this, the main character in the movie Into the Wild, Chris disagrees with most of the things his parents stand for and how they live. Chris McCandless gets in his car after his college graduation and leaves a society that he dislikes to rely on his instincts while traveling the country all the way to Alaska, meanwhile he continuously objects people obsessing and focusing on materialistic things, showing that he embodies transcendentalism. After disappearing, Chris decides that he wants to go to Alaska and live off

Many people desire to make drastic changes to their lifestyle in order to bring joy to their lives. In the movie Into the Wild, Chris McCandless is tired of his life and dreams of a lifestyle that embodies transcendental themes such as self-reliance and living alone in nature, but when he starts living this lifestyle and truly embodying these themes he learns that this transcendental life is not as fulfilling as a life surrounded by people who care about him. Throughout his journey he goes out of his way to make himself reliant on only himself by scarcely using money. Chris romanticizes nature and dreams of living serenely in the isolated Alaskan wilderness. However, once in the wilderness he struggles to survive once he is completely self-reliant

Many argue that his family problems were the justification he desired to leave behind his old life to start a new one The two motives why he left his ordinary life behind to enter into his new journey into the wild was because of his passion he possessed for pushing himself as well as the literary influences he read. Throughout reading the novel, Into the Wild the audience discovers Chris had own the characteristics of persistent, intelligent, friendly but definitely not an open book. Chris gained different perspectives from the books he read. Chris McCandless was a very intelligent ,naturally gifted, inspirational person, always pushing him. Although, he did carried many flaws, one being stubbornness.

Both Alex and the narrator did nothing in the the face of danger and tried to blend in with the rest. In “The Hangman” the narrator is told at the end by the hangman, “And where are the others that might have stood side by your side in the common good” (Ogden). This quote says that if all of the citizens ganged up on him he would have been able to throw him out of their town. In Forbidden City if Alex converted to an upstander earlier might have had an easier chance to smuggle the tapes and less students would have died. If both Alex and the narrator did something more, there would have been a better outcome in the

At the beginning of the movie “Into the Wild”, the main character Chris McCandless graduates from Emory University with honors. After that there are a series of flashbacks where it shows Chris’ family. His family upbringing was fairly good as his father was a member of nasa, but behind closed doors his father was having an affair which he had an entire other family.this scene really gives you an understanding of what Chris was going through mentally, and after the graduation scene it is after this point where he begins to view his parents as the definition of cultural corruption. Shortly after graduation, you see Chris destroys his credit cards, cash, donates his life savings, and adopts the pseudonym Alex Supertramp. After this we see alex

Alex eventually caught and sent to prison, and is volunteered to get released early. He goes in for a treatment that gets him out of prison quickly and makes sure you never get

Chris McCandless was trying to find something out in the wilderness. I believe it was happiness and to let go of his anger with his past. I believe he found these things because he left evidence in his carvings and journals. Chris McCandless left his life behind in order to get away from his quarreling parents

In the biography of Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer writes “It’s not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.” Christopher McCandless’s journey was one of a courageous and brave young man that went Into the Wild. McCandless chose to abandon the material things that society believes are needed to survive and even though his dream was viewed as unrealistic, McCandless followed it. “I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. “ A quote Chris McCandless wrote in his journal.

Alex has no regard whatsoever for the rights of others and the rights of society; the behaviour mentioned is common amongst psychopaths. Alex, spent his youth stealing, torturing,