Category: Chris McCandless

Chris McCandless was stuck in the wild. No food, no water, no compass. He was all alone. What if this was you? What if you were in this situation? In the book, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, this is that crazy situation. Chris McCandless was deep in the Alaskan wilderness and struggled to survive.…

Venturing off into nature can help find a sense of true meaning of who someone is and belonging in life. However, it is the environment nature that unfortunately takes his life. Towards the end of his life, McCandless Discovers what he never realized before. He realizes his purpose and need of other people. After the…

The novel Into The Wild is based on a true story of a young man named Chris McCandless, who later takes on the name of Alex and adventures alone up to his death to the Alaskan Wilderness at only the age of 24. His main drive for this unplanned trip was because he felt as…

There was a man who embarked on a journey in one of the most frigid and glacial areas in the entire world. That man was Chris McCandless. Critics will claim that McCandless was a delusional fool who traveled to Alaska just to have his life cut short. While others claim that he was a brave…

McCandless’s adventures throughout the film represents issues faced in society today. Are we idolised by the technologies or companies of others? Obsessing over how we are viewed by society, even for those, our peers who care so much about us. Early on it was visible that McCandless wasnt infatuated with such items that consumed his…

A good education is something that all children, teens, and young adults across America deserve, but whats the point of it? Over time, people learn the basic skills needed to function in society such as reading, writing, and basic arithmetic, but beyond that, whats the purpose? Although people are going to college more than ever,…

The style of Chris McCandlesss life represents the theory that Thoreau mentioned in his book called Into the Wild. Thoreaus Civil Disobedience had an obvious effect on Chriss life. The fact that Chris didnt renew his License plate and just didnt want the government to regulate his life and make him follow the rules like…

In life and education, individuals who stray from the norm are branded as delusional outcasts instead of innovators or visionaries. Jon Krakauer investigates this in his book, Into the Wild. The book explores the final months of adventurer and transcendentalist, Christopher McCandless; McCandless abandoned the trappings of wealth and higher education to explore the Alaskan…

Introduction: The unique writing styles of simplicity and irony are intermingled with an interview style, employed by John Krakauer in Into the Wild serve to exemplify the main themes of existentialism and materialism. Into the Wild is a biography written three years after the events transpiring within the novel. The Metamorphosis is a social commentary…

Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild is a controversial yet intriguing work in which questions remain about the main characters goals and inspirations. The views of McCandless Alaskan adventure are seen as either arrogant and ill advised or heroic and motivational, but my personal views remain split between the two differencing sides. Instead of viewing McCandless…