Chris Mccandless Trip Analysis

Supertramp’s Excursion There comes a point where you cross between the line of reality and fantasy, and Chris McCandless crossed the line, unfortunately he did it for all the wrong reasons. McCandless had a very bright imagination which caused him to struggle to find the difference between reality and fantasy hard to seperate. He would often fantasize about how the trip would go. When he actually began his trip to Alaska he hoped that everything would turn out the way he wanted to in his mind. Sooner or later, McCandless would face the reality of the situation and notice that he could not take back the mistakes that he had made in the past. McCandless had maintained quite the imaginative life which would then later lead to his death in the Alaskan bush. …show more content…
McCandless, so it seems, has a problem trying to separate his fantasies, or the unrealistic ideals, from reality. When he left his family and began the excursion he named himself Alexander Supertramp, which is showing more of his imaginative side. McCandless, like the uneducated and illogical self that he was, brought minimal food because he believed that he could survive off the bare minimum in the bush. “For that entire period he subsided on but five pounds of rice and what marine life he could pull from the sea, an experience that would later convince him he could survive on similarly meager rations in the Alaska bush” ( 36). This goes to show some more of his unrealistic ideals because no one can virtually live off the land and only bring 5 pounds of rice. He would then get high hopes that the food he brought with him would manage to last him the rest of the time he was out