Even though he died nearly 25 years ago, Chris McCandless’ story does not have a clearly explained ending. In the novel Into the Wild, the author Jon Krakauer goes into depth trying to uncover McCandless’ motives for leaving his home in Annandale, Virginia and hitchhiking eventually to the Alaskan bush. Into the Wild tells McCandless’ travels throughout the US and eventually to his last days before he perishes in a bus in the Denali Borough in Alaska. In the beginning of the novel, Krakauer states that he has a bias that McCandless was a noble and honorable. Krakauer’s identification of Chris being inspirational and brave is correct. Throughout the novel McCandless goes through a series of situations that show that he is truly brave, honorable, and heroic. He is brave because he gave up most of his possessions and walked away from civilization, he is honorable because he chose what he wanted to do in life and stuck with it even when it was hard, and McCandless is heroic because he ended up dying while accomplishing an onerous goal.
McCandless is brave because he left his comfortable life with his parents and hitchhiked across the US. When a flash flood hit near his campsite in the …show more content…
In his journal entries he says “TWO YEARS HE WALKS THE EARTH. NP PHONE, NO POOL, NO PETS, NO CIGARETTES. ULTIMATE FREEDOM. AM EXTREMIST. AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD”(163). Here McCandless in honorable because he accomplished his goal of becoming completely self reliant, he left so that he was “NO LONGER TO BE POISONED BY CIVILIZATION”(163). He wanted to completely isolate himself and he did, he “WALKS ALONE UPON THE LAND TO BECOME LOST IN THE WILD”(163). McCandless’ journey is honorable because he set out to conquer an unimaginable goal to most, with very little supplies and almost no training or experience to prepare himself for the Alaskan
McCandless is brave because he left his comfortable life with his parents and hitchhiked across the US. When a flash flood hit near his campsite in the …show more content…
In his journal entries he says “TWO YEARS HE WALKS THE EARTH. NP PHONE, NO POOL, NO PETS, NO CIGARETTES. ULTIMATE FREEDOM. AM EXTREMIST. AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD”(163). Here McCandless in honorable because he accomplished his goal of becoming completely self reliant, he left so that he was “NO LONGER TO BE POISONED BY CIVILIZATION”(163). He wanted to completely isolate himself and he did, he “WALKS ALONE UPON THE LAND TO BECOME LOST IN THE WILD”(163). McCandless’ journey is honorable because he set out to conquer an unimaginable goal to most, with very little supplies and almost no training or experience to prepare himself for the Alaskan