1. Do you consider McCandless heroic or crazy? In what sense?
I believe McCandless is crazy because he left his family and all modern technology to live off the land in Alaska to fulfill a delusion. McCandless was a selfish person that took advantage of his parents and all the people that offered to help his with his journey. At the end of McCandless even realized his plans were deeply flawed because he was nearing his own death, which is explained in this quote, “S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and to weak to out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God please remain to save me.”(pg.12)
2. Should we care about Chris McCandless and his fate? Explain.
I don’t think we should care about his journey and his fate because he didn’t care enough about his own parents to tell them where he was or if he was even alive anymore. McCandless even wrote in one of his letters that, “I’m going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.” I don’t think his parents were intending to by his respect by offering to pay for his college of a new car, they just wanted to provide as much as they could for their son. He used people to fulfill his dream of living off the grid and he didn’t care …show more content…
How would you characterize his trip to Alaska? An escape? A search?
I think his trip to Alaska was an escape because he wasn’t able to live in society anymore. Even when he had to return to society to get money, people said that he was unhappy and he was weird because he had gone so long without human interaction. In this quote Chris even explains he wants to leave his old life behind, “Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.” He was no longer able to fit into modern society so his response was to leave everyone behind because he believed he belonged in the wild. (pg.
I believe McCandless is crazy because he left his family and all modern technology to live off the land in Alaska to fulfill a delusion. McCandless was a selfish person that took advantage of his parents and all the people that offered to help his with his journey. At the end of McCandless even realized his plans were deeply flawed because he was nearing his own death, which is explained in this quote, “S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and to weak to out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God please remain to save me.”(pg.12)
2. Should we care about Chris McCandless and his fate? Explain.
I don’t think we should care about his journey and his fate because he didn’t care enough about his own parents to tell them where he was or if he was even alive anymore. McCandless even wrote in one of his letters that, “I’m going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.” I don’t think his parents were intending to by his respect by offering to pay for his college of a new car, they just wanted to provide as much as they could for their son. He used people to fulfill his dream of living off the grid and he didn’t care …show more content…
How would you characterize his trip to Alaska? An escape? A search?
I think his trip to Alaska was an escape because he wasn’t able to live in society anymore. Even when he had to return to society to get money, people said that he was unhappy and he was weird because he had gone so long without human interaction. In this quote Chris even explains he wants to leave his old life behind, “Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.” He was no longer able to fit into modern society so his response was to leave everyone behind because he believed he belonged in the wild. (pg.