In life you don’t need many things to be happy. Happiness comes from a good simple life. In the book Into the Wild by Krakauer, Chris McCandless had everything a young boy would want but for Chris McCandless the things he had in life wasn’t what he wanted in order to be happy. Chris McCandless wanted to be far, far away from society. He felt like he was being surrounded from society he didn’t really cared about it all he wanted was to walk into the wild. McCandless shares some similarities with Leo Tolstoy because they both grew up with healthy financially lives. Both Leo and McCandless didn’t care about the money. “They were both into a lifestyle they had no choice over, and when it wasn’t what they wanted, they created alter egos.” They both didn’t have much interest into the how they were raised.They both also wanted to be someone else and find themselves on what they should really be living for.Both believed in the simple life not the luxurious. Society makes some people miserable by the way we live life and how bad society is. Society can also mess with people’s heads as in how bad their city was in the dangers in the streets. When McCandless was living with his parents he wasn’t really happy because he had found out that his dad had another family Chris then had some daddy issues. Chris McCandless told his parents that he was leaving but didn’t tell them where he …show more content…
They both have similarities and differences. Leo Tolstoy walked into the wild when he was much older and Chris McCandless when he was younger. Leo was more mature when he walked into the wild he knew what he was doing as in Chris was a little less mature because he left when he graduated school Chris wasn’t thinking things straight. Leo had more sense of humor of what he was doing and he knew things were going to be way different. Furthermore they both enjoyed being in the