Christopher Johnson McCandless was a bright, young man from a well-to-do family; whom after graduating college, donated all of his money to charity, gave himself the alias, ‘Alexander Supertramp’, and briskly set off to venture into the wilderness of Alaska. With these events of his life left behind, McCandless embarked on symbolic journey, not just to live off the wild, but use his journey as an emblem of a modern day transcendentalist that he set out to be. McCandless used this expedition as a way of his self-proclaimed statement of not adhering to society’s boundaries. McCandless was a self-reliant, non-conforming young man who went into the wild to find his true calling, these particular traits being used to define him as a modern day transcendentalist.
Chris was a unique young man who found deep appreciation for being independent and isolated from societal norms. He was happy with the minimum amount of necessities and rules to survive on whilst in his journey into the wild. This is clearly evidenced in what he had to say to Ronald Franz in his last post card to him, “I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical …show more content…
He was horror struck at the wasted moose, showing his love for nature. He didn’t tell anyone of his journey or how long he would be on it, implying that he was self reliant. As Hodes had so eloquently put it, ‘Chris McCandless was deeply kind and supremely selfish; tremendously brave and jaw-droppingly foolish; impressively competent and staggeringly inept; that is to say, he was hewn from the same crooked timber as the rest of us.’ Unlike the average man or woman, he believed that wealth and power was an illusion, which means he didn’t conform to the rest of society. Christopher McCandless perhaps was not so alone in his thinking, there were many transcendentalists that shared the same views, he was just born in the wrong
Chris was a unique young man who found deep appreciation for being independent and isolated from societal norms. He was happy with the minimum amount of necessities and rules to survive on whilst in his journey into the wild. This is clearly evidenced in what he had to say to Ronald Franz in his last post card to him, “I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical …show more content…
He was horror struck at the wasted moose, showing his love for nature. He didn’t tell anyone of his journey or how long he would be on it, implying that he was self reliant. As Hodes had so eloquently put it, ‘Chris McCandless was deeply kind and supremely selfish; tremendously brave and jaw-droppingly foolish; impressively competent and staggeringly inept; that is to say, he was hewn from the same crooked timber as the rest of us.’ Unlike the average man or woman, he believed that wealth and power was an illusion, which means he didn’t conform to the rest of society. Christopher McCandless perhaps was not so alone in his thinking, there were many transcendentalists that shared the same views, he was just born in the wrong