Heading into the Alaska ill-prepared would be considered a death wish in the eyes of many but for Chris McCandless this journey had a greater meaning. In the book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer tells how a young man named Chris McCandless left everything he had and everyone that loved him behind to go live in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer also leaves it up to the reader to determine whether or not Chris McCandless was crazy, a sociopath, or an outcast for heading into Alaska the way he did. Chris McCandless wasn’t crazy, a sociopath, or an outcast, rather he was a young man who set out knowing what he wanted to do with his life, regardless of the circumstances. Chris McCandless in his journey was trying to find out who he truly was, what he wanted by heading into Alaska, and to accomplish his own personal goals.
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Chris McCandless was a trustworthy, non-materialistic, and determined young man. The quote “Astoundingly the eighty-one-year-old man took the brash twenty-four-year-old vagabonds advice to heart,” (58) shows just how trustworthy the twenty-four-year-old, Chris McCandless, was. This quote is in reference to when Chris McCandless encourages his eighty-one-year-old friend, Ron Franz, to change his lifestyle and live the same nomadic lifestyle Chris does. The quote shows how much trust/faith Ron Franz had in Chris because Ron follows through with Chris’s recommendation. Chris had to have had quite the impact on Ron’s life, because for a eighty-one-year-old man to change his lifestyle at the suggestion of a twenty-four-year-old is quite significant given everything Ron knows and has been through in his eighty-one-years of life. Chris wasn't materialistic at all. His mom refers to him as being “embarrassed by all that” (115) in reference to all the nice clothes, jewelry, cars, and the house the family bought. He hated the wealth he “believed the wealth was shameful, corrupting, and inherently
Chris McCandless was a trustworthy, non-materialistic, and determined young man. The quote “Astoundingly the eighty-one-year-old man took the brash twenty-four-year-old vagabonds advice to heart,” (58) shows just how trustworthy the twenty-four-year-old, Chris McCandless, was. This quote is in reference to when Chris McCandless encourages his eighty-one-year-old friend, Ron Franz, to change his lifestyle and live the same nomadic lifestyle Chris does. The quote shows how much trust/faith Ron Franz had in Chris because Ron follows through with Chris’s recommendation. Chris had to have had quite the impact on Ron’s life, because for a eighty-one-year-old man to change his lifestyle at the suggestion of a twenty-four-year-old is quite significant given everything Ron knows and has been through in his eighty-one-years of life. Chris wasn't materialistic at all. His mom refers to him as being “embarrassed by all that” (115) in reference to all the nice clothes, jewelry, cars, and the house the family bought. He hated the wealth he “believed the wealth was shameful, corrupting, and inherently