Compare and Contrast: Gene Rosellini vs. Chris McCandless
Throughout Rosellini and McCandless’s horrific and life touching tragedies they have a comparable life story but some differences among it. Gene Rosellini is a wealthy family who decides to live as a primitive man did and Chris McCandless possesses the same passion as Rosellini and also comes from a wealthy family. Both have different intentions to start their lives as a primitive man and come up having a small extent of different characterization during their journey. Both had a different experience in the wilderness and way they documented it but had the same mind set and wanted to go into the wild.
McCandless and Gene Rosellini were an intelligent, extremely intense young men with a streak of stubborn idealism. McCandless grew up in Washington D.C where he succeeded both academically and athletically. He graduated from Emory University with honors in 1990 whereas Rosellini attended the University of Washington and later at Seattle University and attended to take classes for anthropology, history, philosophy and linguistics but didn't accomplish no degree because he didn’t accept no degree for he thought the pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no …show more content…
Mccandless would be considered a “soul-searcher” as he wanted to gain spiritual growth from the experience. Rosellini, however, is considered a “hippie” because he chose to live without modern conveniences and rely on nature."Alex," was the name McCandless made for himself to try having a new life and spent two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. He went to Alaska, where he journeyed alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992. But Gene Rosellini did not make up a name and was starting to be known as “Mayor of Hippie
Throughout Rosellini and McCandless’s horrific and life touching tragedies they have a comparable life story but some differences among it. Gene Rosellini is a wealthy family who decides to live as a primitive man did and Chris McCandless possesses the same passion as Rosellini and also comes from a wealthy family. Both have different intentions to start their lives as a primitive man and come up having a small extent of different characterization during their journey. Both had a different experience in the wilderness and way they documented it but had the same mind set and wanted to go into the wild.
McCandless and Gene Rosellini were an intelligent, extremely intense young men with a streak of stubborn idealism. McCandless grew up in Washington D.C where he succeeded both academically and athletically. He graduated from Emory University with honors in 1990 whereas Rosellini attended the University of Washington and later at Seattle University and attended to take classes for anthropology, history, philosophy and linguistics but didn't accomplish no degree because he didn’t accept no degree for he thought the pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no …show more content…
Mccandless would be considered a “soul-searcher” as he wanted to gain spiritual growth from the experience. Rosellini, however, is considered a “hippie” because he chose to live without modern conveniences and rely on nature."Alex," was the name McCandless made for himself to try having a new life and spent two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. He went to Alaska, where he journeyed alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992. But Gene Rosellini did not make up a name and was starting to be known as “Mayor of Hippie