Into The Wild Persuasive Essay

On April 28, 1992, Chris McCandless stepped foot into the woods, a journey that would last four months, coming to an end much earlier than he would’ve hoped. In August of 1992, just four months after Chris walked alone into the wild, his perishing body was found by a party of moose hunters. Chris went into the wild hoping to get away from corrupt society and to live a transcendentalist lifestyle. His bold journey was going well until he made a silly mistake when he came across seeds from the wild potato. The seeds themselves are not what killed Chris, it was the amino acids in the seeds that caused him to slowly become paralyzed due to his malnutrition and physical state. Krakauer believes Chris died of starvation, but not because he wasn’t able to hunt and gather food, it was because he physically couldn’t move to get up and find the food he needed to sustain his body. To this day, his journey is still being talked about with extensive discussion and disputes; it was very controversial and many people are forming their opinions on whether or not Chris should be praised or disregarded. Although Chris …show more content…
His motives for going out into the wild were to isolate himself and “…it was important for him to see how independent he could be” (Krakauer 125). Chris didn’t leave to later be written about for the whole world to see, he was trying to get away and not be found. By not even communicating with his sister, Carine, with whom he was quite close, he made it evident that he did not want to be found. He walked into the wild on April 28, 1992, and was never able to make his way out of the woods. Not going into the wild would have solved most of Chris’s problems, but there was no way from stopping him on his way to pursue his dream. Nonetheless, he should not be getting praised for embarking on a journey that was foolhardy and poorly planned considering the bright future he had ahead of