McCandless Essay Many people traveled around the United States to escape from the life they know, but not many actually leave to find the meaning of their life. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is about the story of a man named Christopher McCandless who was a man that through his journey found friends that tried to helped him get to his final destination of Alaska where he died. Chris McCandless stands out because he left all his money, family, and bright future to live a life of constant traveling, being hungry, and sleeping most nights only to have the stars as a company on lonely nights with no home. This character can be described as having a thrill seeking, defying and even unstable life which shows throughout the story. McCandless is
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In one instance McCandless found out later in his life that his father had another family other than his own for years. On page 121 it says “Chris’s smoldering anger, it turns out was fueled by a discovery he’d made two summers earlier... He called on a number of old family friends who still lived they're and from their answers to his queries, Chris pieced together the facts of his father’s previous marriage and subsequent divorce- facts to which he hadn’t been privy.” It is apparent that he had a problem with his father and mother keeping these big secrets, which fueled his leaving so abruptly as revenge on them. In another event Chris was different when he went to colleges in the way he acted, his friends saw him being “introverted, and almost cold.” On page 120 it says “Many aspects of Chris’s personality baffled his parents. He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.” Therefore Chris’s childhood made him have enough with is father to where he left him, and tried to make him mad by giving all his own money for college to charity. It is clearer to people that these are the reasons why Chris didn’t communicate with his parents the whole journey through
In one instance McCandless found out later in his life that his father had another family other than his own for years. On page 121 it says “Chris’s smoldering anger, it turns out was fueled by a discovery he’d made two summers earlier... He called on a number of old family friends who still lived they're and from their answers to his queries, Chris pieced together the facts of his father’s previous marriage and subsequent divorce- facts to which he hadn’t been privy.” It is apparent that he had a problem with his father and mother keeping these big secrets, which fueled his leaving so abruptly as revenge on them. In another event Chris was different when he went to colleges in the way he acted, his friends saw him being “introverted, and almost cold.” On page 120 it says “Many aspects of Chris’s personality baffled his parents. He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.” Therefore Chris’s childhood made him have enough with is father to where he left him, and tried to make him mad by giving all his own money for college to charity. It is clearer to people that these are the reasons why Chris didn’t communicate with his parents the whole journey through