Malala And Chris Mccandless Comparison Essay

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People, some say that they’re different others say that they’re the same. However, we wouldn’t know because one doesn’t see their everyday thoughts. Chris McCandless and Malala Yousafzai, they’re not just different physically but also emotionally. However, they do share one thing in common, and that is their values on education and equality. Malala Yousafzai and Chris McCandless both believe in education and equality for all. However, they approach their beliefs in different ways and they also have different relationships with their fathers. Both Malala Yousafzai and Chris McCandless believed in equality and education, but they expressed it in different ways in order to spread their ideas. Both Malala and Chris approached their beliefs …show more content…
Malala got along with her father while Chris didn’t get along with his. Chris’s relationship with his father was dysfunctional. They were more opposite than similar. “Whenever Walk McCandless, in his stern fashion, would dispense a fatherly admonishment to Chris, Carine, or their half siblings, Chris would fixate on his father’s own less than sterling behavior many years earlier and silently denounce him as a sanctimonious hypocrite” (Krakauer 122). Because of Chris and Walt’s dysfunctional relationship Chris never listened to his dad or take his advice, he always did things on his own. Which might be a reason he always took risks and was always living on the edge. On the other hand, Malala has a positive relationship with her father. Not only did they get along but she admired him too. “Her father being a school owner and teacher, Malala developed a deep passion for learning at an early age” (“I Am Malala” 1). Because Malala and her father got along, they wrote a blog together for BBC detailing her life and the life of others under Taliban rule, to show the world how they were living. Also by speaking out against the Taliban she became a spokesperson for

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