How Does Chris Mccandless Corrupt In Into The Wild

Money Matters: The Art of Corruption Growing up in modern America’s east coast, a highly a pressure ridden, materialistic pothole. In the investigative journalism piece Into the Wild by John Krakauer, the author goes into the detailed adventures, and experiences Chris Mccandless endured both on his trek to Alaska and the time in the wild. Chris Mccandless, on paper, had the perfect life, he was raised by a well-to-do family outside Washington D.C., graduated Emory University with no student debt, and a trust fund with $25,000. However, this ‘perfect life’ was a facade, Chris was disgusted by the consumerist society. Through exploring the concept of removing one’s self from the materialistic and corrupt modern society, Chris McCandless’ motives and decisions are justified in abandoning what seemed to be the ideal, privileged life. …show more content…
Chris was described as a capitalist by his family, however his hard working nature was misinterpreted. In the novel, it described the various jobs he upheld growing up, “‘Chris was always an entrepreneur’... [he] was hired by a local building contractor to canvass the neighborhoods for sales … and he was astonishingly successful” (115, Krakauer). From the eyes of his family Chris seemed to be a hard working teenager trying to make a jumpstart on his savings. However, Chris, a “Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, and inherently evil” (115), used his savings for something outside society’s expectation. He used the majority of his funds to buy himself a car, and in the summer after he graduated high school he drove across the country. In the novel, krakauer defends his first adventure to be the first moment in his legacy of rejecting modern