In the book “Into the Wild”, John Krakauer gives an account of a man, Christopher McCandless, who decides to take a long trek across the west into Alaska, where he eventually perishes. The book “Wild”, written by Cheryl Strayed, follows her journey as a twenty-six year old woman across the Pacific Crest Trail. Throughout both stories, the characters go through intense battles with the world around them and themselves, but the stories are not completely identical. The reasons for these two people’s journeys are varied as is their outlook on life and how their journeys ended overall. Within these stories there are also hidden parallels that link the stories and create a very similar dynamic between the two.
While these two treks do indeed vary
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For one, Cheryl planned out her journey prior to embarking on it. She did research and gathered materials to prepare. Chris, although, did not prepare at all and really just stumbled onto the journey when his car stopped working. The only prior thinking he did was the fact that he knew he wanted to go to Alaska. Another difference was their family life. Chris never had a girlfriend, and was very distant from his parents, truly only finding solace in his sister. Cheryl, on the other hand, Was very close to her mother and became devastated when she died, Cheryl was also married before divorcing her husband once her mother died, and her life began to crumble. Another difference was their connections to their previous worlds. Cheryl had continuous connection to those around her and kept in touch to update them on her location, as well as receive food and money from them. Chris, in contrast, never spoke to his friends or family, not even to let them know where he was or if he was alive. Chris and Cheryl also had varying outlooks on life. Chris discarded all material possessions and disassociated from his previous friends and family in order to simplify his life, which he believed would bring him greater happiness. Cheryl, did not find happiness in completely getting rid of her previous life, but believed she needed to clear the air with herself and be more in touch with who she was. Chris believed in a
In particular Chris Mccandless should be supported for he had things happen to him that led up to the point where he wanted to go into the wild to get away from his old life and created a new one for himself to have more opportunities. Others may think he shouldn’t be supported just because he some bad flaws he had and also that he just left his sister who he actually got along with, but here are some reasons that are logical and reasonable to why Chris Mccandless should be supported. One of the reasons why readers should support Chris McCandless is because he is generous, he gave people inspiration, or felt inspired by others, and like in the book Krakauer tells us “Chris’s Father suggested the boy had probably been inspired. ”(94),his way of living inspired everyone that you can live anyway you want.
He just wanted to leave the superfluous society of material items. Most people don’t follow their dreams especially to the extent of Chris. And those who do are usually considered by society to be a success. The natives don’t think Chris was successful with his journey to Alaska, but he did exactly what he set out to do.
All parties suffered terribly.” This seems to be a key factor in Chris leaving and not wanting anyone to find him. Chris wanted to “isolate” himself from his problems and live his own independent life where he wouldn’t have to suffer from his relationships back home. Eddie Vedder expresses this theme when he sings, “As I walk the
Simply that he is in fit condition and got lucky and cheated death a few times is an understatement. Chris simply conveys to the audience that he is more than a delusional backpacker who is going with the flow. Chris exemplified that he didn’t need basic necessities to blossom into the person he wanted to
He started to spend too much time away from home at the bars drinking. Chris even started talking and texting old girl friends. After watching her husband struggle for a bit of time Taya finally got him to agree to go to counseling. After some counseling they eventually got back to how they had used to be. Chris needed a way to pay his service forward to the community.
I am in agreement with Krakauer on the fact that Chris McCandless was not a sociopath because he was intelligent, socialized very well, and was able to take care of himself, but he did have his flaws. Being able to be independent, his achievements and his friends all prove the “outcast bush causality” stereotype wrong. Since Chris was a human, he did have his faults. In some cases they were extreme, but they were rooted from an anger that makes it hard to label as “sociopath”. In the end, however, his stubbornness and tendency to dream big left him for dead.
He’d successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he’d slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz’s life as well,” every time someone tried to become close to him, he pushed him or her away. When Ronald Franz asked to adopt him, Chris told him that they would talk about it when he returns from Alaska. Chris’ problems with his father affected his ability to form new, close relationships, and ultimately sent him to his death.
By that point we had absolutely no idea what Chris could be up to.(Chapter 4)” I did like though that Chris was trying to be the person he really was in the inside. It would’ve been better though if he went about become his innerself a different way. I really do believe that Chris was an idiot thought to make this journey so unprepared and uneducated about what he was going to have to endure upon the
Romanticism was a movement during the late 18th century that encouraged imagination, exploration, individualism, and emotion. From it derived Transcendentalism, one of the first movements to originate from America and which bore the first American philosophers. These movements are often present in many pieces of American literature and this is no exception in Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild. The historic account retells the story of a young man named Chris McCandless, who adopts the pseudonym Alexander Supertramp and takes to the road, only to die of starvation in Alaska. On the surface it appears to be cautionary tale, but Krakauer literally retraces McCandless’ steps, talking to the people who Chris spoke with and even traveling to Chris’ final resting place.
In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, he focuses on one main person, Chris McCandless. Krakauer explains most of Chris's life and even, at times, puts his own input into the pages of this book. Chris McCandless (a.k.a Alexander Supertramp) was from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. Chris had a father, Walt McCandless, a mother, Billie Mccandless, and a younger sister, Carine. Chris's obsession with nature and high-risk activities was believed to start when "Walt took Billie and his children from both marriages to climb Longs Peak in Colorado."
Chris Mcandless was a heedless fool. If he stayed in his hometown, Chris would have had so many more opportunities. He was going to a good college, and he had financial stability when he was back at home. The only real thing that could have been an issue is the fact that his parents were very materialistic and money obsessed. Chris left because he did not find meaning in his life, so to find that meaning he went and became a nomadic
Chris made an impact in everyone's lives he touched. Whether that be from his knowledge and being able to connect with them, his happiness and joy for life that drew others in, or his childlike standpoint on some subjects that made people want to step in as a mother hen he had many attributes that made others attach to him so quickly. Chris was a huge part of everyone's lives that he
He wanted full disconnect from the world, fully he didn't want no contact with anyone. “The fact that Chris never bothered to let his family, specifically his parents, know where he was when he was gone for two years” (Jessica Robbins, 2012) she says she doesn't believe he did it on purpose but i feel like he did, the fact he found the truth about his parents is when he felt like his parents now feel about having no clue to where he may be i think he wanted to make his parents feel some of the pain he's felt so he hides himself from the very start. For instance, in the movie you
Christopher McCandless, the protagonist of the novel and film Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, is not your average guy. Driven by his minimalist ideals and hate for society, he challenged the status quo and embarked on a journey that eventually lead to his unforeseen demise. A tragic hero, defined by esteemed writer, Arthur Miller, is a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on tragedy. Christopher McCandless fulfills the role of Miller’s tragic hero due to the fact that his tragic flaw of minimalism and aversion towards society had lead him to his death.
Chris is living a double life with two girls. They all believe that Chris is the one and that he is being faithful but soon they will realize his game. Destiny, a naive young girl looking for love in all the wrong places since the day her father left her. She knew no better she knew nothing like having real love from a man , so she constantly ended up with men that hurt her. Destiny just wanted to be loved; that’s when she met Chris.