Informative Essay On Chris Mccandless

Would you ever just pack up all of your belongings and leave your family, friends, job etc like Christopher McCandless did? I do not think so. Chris was born February 12, 1968 in El Segundo, Ca. He was brought into a “special family” I’d say, Chris’s father had two wives and two different families that only lived 20 minutes away from each other. His father was an abusive man toward his wife, and Chris’s mother and his father would make him and his sister Carine McCandless watch while he would beat his wife. Although people claim he had a mental issue because he is crazy for going out into the wild, people should consider what his life might be like at home because you do not know how that can affect a person. Chris’s father Walt McCandless was an Aerospace Engineer for NASA and his mother Billie was a secretary at Walt’s research facility. They were an average family, money wise they never seem to really struggle. Throughout high school Chris maintained all A’s except for an F in physics. He was on the cross country team while in high school. When he graduated he bought a car, a yellow Datsun and went on his first journey. From 1986-1990 he attended college at Emory University in Georgia. Before he left for college was when he …show more content…
When he left he sent a postcard to Wayne, Chris sent it from Alaska with a polar bear on the front of it on April 27, 1992 “Please return all mail I receive back to the sender. I might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild” (Krakauer 69). At this point Chris changed his name to Alex he did not want anyone looking or worrying about him, even though I am sure his family was terrified on where he was he did not seem to mind if they were worried or