"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism." (76) These unhappy circumstances are what Chris McCandless in Into the Wild was trying to escape when he left on his journey. Some people could argue that Chris was unsuccessful in his adventures because he didn 't survive, however I disagree. I believe that Chris McCandless was extremely successful, but this might be because my definition of success may differ from others. I believe that success is not measured on finishing the journey alive, moreover I believe that success should measured on having the courage to try to follow your dream, on uncovering
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If I were him, I would have overthought the entire adventure and backed out before I ever put the key into the yellow Datsun 's ignition. Chris was a student of high intelligence. He graduated college with good enough grades to put him into Harvard Law School. (229) He could have easily calculated the risks of running off alone, without telling anybody where he was going. But, either he didn 't care about the risks, or he found the bravery to confront those risks head on, which is something that few people could find the courage to do. This is where you can see Chris ' initial …show more content…
While climbing the Devil 's thumb on the Alaska- British Columbian boarder in 1977, he was unable to achieve his original plan of climbing the northeast side. However, he found an alternate route to save his mission and find success another way. He explained, "I’d noticed an obvious unclimbed line to the left of the Beckey route—a patchy network of ice angling across the southeast face—that struck me as a relatively easy way to achieve the summit." He overcame his obstacle by finding a way around it, and in the end, was successful because he made it to the top of the Devil 's Thumb. Chris McCandless found success in a similar way. He overcame several obstacles on his journey including, the flood that ruined his beloved Datsun in the Mojave Desert, getting lost while trying to find the ocean in Mexico, breaking his oar while paddling down the barren shore, having to leave Carthage when Wayne Westerberg went to jail, and losing the moose meat in Alaska to maggots, just to name a few. The way Chris found a way around these problems and continued to survive, shows real success. When Chris McCandless left home, he believed that he could live independent of society, by himself, with the road as his only home. He soon found out the truth, what another rebel named Gene Rosellini had realized years ago in 1977, that humans can no longer survive without modern technology and tactics. In a letter to a friend he wrote, "I learned
If I were him, I would have overthought the entire adventure and backed out before I ever put the key into the yellow Datsun 's ignition. Chris was a student of high intelligence. He graduated college with good enough grades to put him into Harvard Law School. (229) He could have easily calculated the risks of running off alone, without telling anybody where he was going. But, either he didn 't care about the risks, or he found the bravery to confront those risks head on, which is something that few people could find the courage to do. This is where you can see Chris ' initial …show more content…
While climbing the Devil 's thumb on the Alaska- British Columbian boarder in 1977, he was unable to achieve his original plan of climbing the northeast side. However, he found an alternate route to save his mission and find success another way. He explained, "I’d noticed an obvious unclimbed line to the left of the Beckey route—a patchy network of ice angling across the southeast face—that struck me as a relatively easy way to achieve the summit." He overcame his obstacle by finding a way around it, and in the end, was successful because he made it to the top of the Devil 's Thumb. Chris McCandless found success in a similar way. He overcame several obstacles on his journey including, the flood that ruined his beloved Datsun in the Mojave Desert, getting lost while trying to find the ocean in Mexico, breaking his oar while paddling down the barren shore, having to leave Carthage when Wayne Westerberg went to jail, and losing the moose meat in Alaska to maggots, just to name a few. The way Chris found a way around these problems and continued to survive, shows real success. When Chris McCandless left home, he believed that he could live independent of society, by himself, with the road as his only home. He soon found out the truth, what another rebel named Gene Rosellini had realized years ago in 1977, that humans can no longer survive without modern technology and tactics. In a letter to a friend he wrote, "I learned