Henry And Chris Mccandless Similarities

Chris McCandless and Henry David Thoreau were both adventures that went out on their own in the wild. They had some similarities for why they isolated themselves. They also had some difference in how they prepared for going out. Only one of these people found success in their quest. They had to overcome different weather patterns and other obstacles. Chris and Henry both showed transcendentalism by doing something different and being their selves and not following the paths of others. One way that Chris and Henry are similar is that they both had an extreme hatred for money. Growing up Chris’s family had a lot of money, and at a young age he was good at making money. As he grew older he donated all his money to OXFAM, a foundation for the hunger, and burned the rest of his money because he didn’t like how money changed people (Krakauer, 20). Henry on the other hand did not go to that extreme, he just wanted live off the nature to help give him thoughts on his first book. Henry and Chris also loved nature more than anything. Henry would spend two years in the wild to help write his first book “Nature”. He would make his own cabin and try to live under that for the whole time. Chris also had shelter but his was already there, a bus that was left abandoned there with the number 142 on the side of it. They both also ran into …show more content…
Some of there intentions were the same as that they didn’t like how money changed people and that they both loved nature and wanted to survive off the land. Some were different in the fact that Henry had help from others and would have his friends visit him. When Chris totally isolated himself even when he was offered help. He could have just gone down the road to get food to survive but he stayed loyal to himself and tried to live completely off the land. In the end both Henry and Chris had the same intentions but only Henry survived in the