Chris Mccandless In Ayn Rand's 'Into The Wild'

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When we first read the book Into the Wild, it seemed to me like his parents were not very worried about what he was doing with his life because he was a great son and student so there was nothing so they thought for them to really worry about . But I feel that they never saw things from his perspective, they never really knew what he was feeling deep down inside.
In the book it shows that Chris’s relationship with his parents was not good. He refuses to get any gifts from them and then he randomly disappears . Maybe he was selfish for disobeying his parents’ feelings. But I think that McCandless was trying to show his parents how Independent he really can be. One of the reasons that McCandless did not keep in contact with his parents and

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