McCandless was the kind of person who craved freedom. His wife before Adventure consisted of mundane ways of life brought upon him by his parents. He held a discontent for his parents for their greed and their materialistic lifestyle. He hated their general way of life for they lived as people who avoided the natural, and always had a plan for the future. Mccandless did have his plans, but they weren't as strict he always wanted to go out into nature. He especially wanted to go up to Alaska, but he never actually planned certain ways of getting there. He wanted to wander through the lands without a map and see the natural beauty of everything. His reasoning for hitchhiking out and surviving the wilderness was simply because of his disapproval
