After the discovery of the dead body of McCandless that was found inside the Fairbanks bus 142 in Alaska, argue that he was a reckless narcissist and that was the reason he ended up dead. On the other hand, they were few people like the author of the book Into the Wild Jon Krakauer who argue that the reason behind the behavior of McCandless can be justified. The main reason that McCandless went through this journey searching for knowledge and freedom can be justified through the actions of the family and more specifically his father. To this point I will argue that McCandless was a noble idealist and that this behavior can be justified through family occasions, the risk young man seeks and romanticism. The first point that we have to clear
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We can see that clearly from the book Krakauer found next to the dead body of McCandless and he use them in his book. According to Krakauer “At such time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute-life or truth or beauty.” (103). This was one part which McCandless underline from Doctor Zhivago book (Krakauer 103). From that we can see that romanticism play an important role to McCandless life since he was seeking a goal and the meaning of life. Another reason that romanticism was important was the nature beauty, McCandless was looking for a place away from civilization that was not destroy by human hands. Through that McCandless has even encouraged Franz an 80 years that he meet on his way try to convince him through his last letter to go out and see the beautiful West America that God created (Krakauer 58). By this point, McCandless try to convince him to go out check the world and commit to something that will change his life and find true meaning. With this action McCandless try to show how beautiful the world is and that the people are destroying this beauty. In conclusion McCandless was a noble idealist and that this behavior can be justified through family occasions, the risk young man seeks and romanticism. By the three topics that I have developed above I argue that McCandless actions can be justified, because of the things that affected his life. From that point we can say that McCandless move through nature to find his freedom and took odd jobs since he donated all of his money to see life. Leave away from civilization like other authors did or suggested in order to find their meaning of
We can see that clearly from the book Krakauer found next to the dead body of McCandless and he use them in his book. According to Krakauer “At such time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute-life or truth or beauty.” (103). This was one part which McCandless underline from Doctor Zhivago book (Krakauer 103). From that we can see that romanticism play an important role to McCandless life since he was seeking a goal and the meaning of life. Another reason that romanticism was important was the nature beauty, McCandless was looking for a place away from civilization that was not destroy by human hands. Through that McCandless has even encouraged Franz an 80 years that he meet on his way try to convince him through his last letter to go out and see the beautiful West America that God created (Krakauer 58). By this point, McCandless try to convince him to go out check the world and commit to something that will change his life and find true meaning. With this action McCandless try to show how beautiful the world is and that the people are destroying this beauty. In conclusion McCandless was a noble idealist and that this behavior can be justified through family occasions, the risk young man seeks and romanticism. By the three topics that I have developed above I argue that McCandless actions can be justified, because of the things that affected his life. From that point we can say that McCandless move through nature to find his freedom and took odd jobs since he donated all of his money to see life. Leave away from civilization like other authors did or suggested in order to find their meaning of