“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” Christopher Mccandless's life can be represented throughout this quote. Mccandless’s adventure brings many questions to the surface, but conveniently fails to answer many of them. His home life was not perfect, yet it was not horrible. Mccandless was talented with music, and usually kept to himself. He always felt out of place, and had different, divergent ideas than everybody else in his family. Chris grew up with a mother and father who were almost always busy with their own work complications; and a sister named Carine, who he grew extremely close to. Chis’s loss was a tragedy, especially to his only biological sibling. This dramatically affected his family also. So why did he
