Christopher Mccandless Risks

People often walk into situations without thinking things through. How many times have you ever walked into a place and just know it’s not right for you to be there. As a human being we are naturally curious and we know no boundaries. As people, like McCandless, have shown us we are drawn to the unknown and the risks that come with it. As an adult with a teenagers brain, McCandless proves that teenagers have a totally different thought process than adults. In the article “Why the Teen Brain Is Drawn to Risk” by Maia Szalavitz, she claims that “teens tend to wildly overestimate certain risks”. As teenagers we tend to look into places and things that are unknown to us. As McCandless proves to us over and over again, he tends to walk into things without thinking through the end results. Leaving his parents and sister behind without so much as a goodbye is one of the first signs. Chris proves throughout the book that he loved his sister very much. His parents however were a totally different story. As the child of a man who was rather self-absorbed, Chris was very opposed to most types of authority. His father claimed to only “want what’s best for Chris”, when in reality he simply wanted Chris to follow in his footsteps. “Walt is accustomed to calling the shots.” (105) Being in …show more content…
We can not surround ourselves with people and phones and other materialistic things to achieve peace and to become one with nature. For McCandless, the best way to do that was to pack his things and whirlwind up into Alaska. Along the way he encountered some people that maybe (just maybe) he should’ve taken their