In chapter 17 page 182, Krakauer notes that McCandless’ behavior is not that radical. He says that Chris, as well as other teenagers, were driven to taking risks and doing things that many disagree with. For example, we see teenagers doing drugs but why do they do it? They do it because of the danger. But in the case of McCandless, he took the danger to the extreme because he burned his money and abandoned his car. I have been in a similar place before where it seems like doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do. Although many elders believed that Chris was careless because he engaged in risky behavior, I believe that he was not careless because knew what he was getting himself into but still decide to go into the wild. At the end, Krakauer
