Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild is a book written by Jon Krakauer which talks about the adventure of Christopher Johnson McCandless. Chris was a smart boy, who grew up from a wealthy family and graduated from Emory University, but his father had a second wife. Chris knew his father’s secret; however, he never told him which led Chris to a confusing situation. For that reason, Chris left his family to seek for his own happiness. On his adventure to Alaska, he met many people and left them a good impression. Unfortunately, the story ended with the dead of Chris in a bus in Alaska. Unlike his father, Chris never worshiped the value of the money as he had sent all his money to a charity, dumped his car and burnt all his money. Materialism give people unlimited satisfaction, …show more content…
For example, Chris’s father, Samuel Walter McCandless, was a NASA scientist and a radar entrepreneur. His career is successful, and he could afford anything he needed. Because he was intelligent and successful, everyone wanted to be like him, and money gave him a great satisfaction in life. However, Walt could not find the happiness as he wished because his abundant made him become a father of his second family which made his wife and children felt disgust about him. Chris and his sister could possess anything, but they never truly felt the love from their father. Chris was smart guy who graduated from Emory University with the law major. His future was bright, but he chose to quit the school and gave all his money to a charity. Chris did that because he didn’t believe money would bring happiness, so he decided to live a poor life with interesting adventures. Chris didn’t want to make the same mistake as his father who spent an entire life to look for the money but never satisfy. For that reason, Chris was never proud of his parents, in another hand, he hated them as he said, “I’m going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live.” Chris thought his parents were “idiots” because they are husband and wife, but they are dishonest to each other, and the reason they are together is maintaining their wealthy. When looking at McCandless family, people might feel respect and honor, but they don’t know that the wealthy is tearing the family. Jordan Belfort is another example of unlimited satisfaction of money which leads to unhappy life. He was multimillionaire stock broker, and he owned 250 million dollars at the age 25. His life was recreated in the movie Wolf of Wall Street with the main character Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort. Because he was rich at the