Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Meaning

As Arthur Shopenhauer once said, “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, Chris McCandless went out to live in the wild for a few months to be independent and search for the meaning of life. I believe McCandless wanted to go out and live off the land to be independant and self reliant, he was tired of having his parents wealth, he was tired of being a rich kid. McCandless wasn’t just leaving home to rebel against his parents to be petty, he wanted to see what it’d be like to be by himself, figure out the meaning of his life. McCandless set out to live off the land to search for the meaning of his life in solitude, with no one around him to influence his decisions. For one thing, Chris McCandless decided to go out into the wilderness with very little supplies, allowing him to rely on his own skills. At the beginning before he set out on his journey he burned all his money, packed very little rice, and unfunctional snow gear. To enumerate, Jon Krakauer interviewed a truck driver that gave McCandless a ride who said,“Alex admitted that the …show more content…
McCandless set out to live off the land to search for the meaning of his life in solitude, with no one around him to influence his decisions. McCandless relied on his own survival skills out in the wilderness to see how independent he could be upon himself. He also wouldn't accept any material possessions from others, he believed he needed to work for it himself, Lastly, McCandless didn't abide by society's rules, he lived his life how he wanted to, he lived how he believed was right. To sum up, McCandless found his meaning of life, he wanted to live independently, he did just