Into the Wild Essay

Into the Wild describes the story of Christopher McCandless. He hitchhiked in 1992 to Alaska where he was found dead four months later in a deserted bus in the Alaskan wilderness. Author Jon Krakauer uses accounts from people who interacted with Chris and personal research to account the story of Alex Supertramp, another name proclaimed by Chris. The book starts with the description of Chris’s last day in society before starting his journey in the Alaskan wild. It shifts to the events that led…

able to experience all three aspects of the untamed land before his untimely death. Jon Krakauer, an author by day and mountain climber by night, discovered McCandless’s story and decided to write a book on the young man, which he aptly named Into the Wild. However, what could have been a compelling story about the folly of youth and the dangers of overconfidence became instead a unfounded peer into the mind of Chris McCandless, as…

Into the Wild In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and the movie Sean Penn, Chris McCandless also known as Alexander Supertramp is a young man who abandons all he knows to go to the Alaskan wilderness to find out who he is and the meaning of life.He came from a wealthy family but he grew up with his parents constantly fighting while he was growing up.He graduated college and instead of getting ready to settle down and taking his place in society he gave up everything and went on this…

Into the Wild (2011), a movie based off a real-life story, follows the travels of Christopher McCandless, who ventured across the country starting from the deep south of Georgia and ending in the excruciating cold of Alaska. Not to mention, Chris, who went by the name of Alexander Supertramp to conceal his identity, found himself to be an outsider from society. Furthermore, Chris strongly believed in living his life the way we were meant to live our lives: free. Although Chris grew up living the…

The purpose of writing Into the Wild is not relate the facts of a true adventure, but to show people that there is an escape from reality. Through McCandless, the wild was initially portrayed as harrowing and unpredictable, but as time went on McCandless learned to adapt to the wild, and bury himself from the flow of civilization. In the middle of McCandless’s travels, he encounters an elderly man named Ronald Franz. Franz, a man who seems to think he has fully lived, his life, sees a new…

Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Chris McCandless is presented as a selfless man for feeding the homeless and donating money to OXFAM, a charity dedicated to solving the hunger crisis. However, he constantly leaves…

journey and stay alive. He ran into obstacles like starvation, malnourishment, and he got lost and he was not able to overcome these problems or bring out the talents that could have saved his life. John Krakauer wrote a book about Chris called Into the Wild. In this story, Chris McCandless goes on a long, never ending journey to reinvent himself. He gave his college money to charity, burned the money in his wallet, abandoned his car, and buried his possessions in hopes of being able to be fully…

Do you just love dogs? What I’m implying is, only cold-hearted monsters don’t love dogs. If you aren’t a cold-hearted monster, then I recommend you read the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London. The Call of the Wild is about a proud, overweening dog named Buck. The setting of the story appeared in 1897 during the Klondike Gold Rush, when people from all places were heading to the Northland in hopes of striking it rich. Unfortunately for Buck, he classified as the variety of dog people were…

in, a young man found an expanse of unsullied land that represented his dreams and ambitions as he fought to create a life worth living. The name of the young man was Christopher McCandless. Author and mountaineer Jon Krakauer in his novel, Into the Wild, explores the themes of the wilderness, arrogance versus innocence, and self-reinvention that embodied the spirit of Chris McCandless’s journey to the Last Frontier. Chris’s constant unselfishness, unmatched acumen, and daring will provoked him…

The movie Into the Wild, compares McCandless intentions when travelling into the wilderness with transcendental ideas, while the consequences and results displayed naturalist thoughts. McCandless, who was a brilliant minded boy, was troubled and struggled to agree with his family. He despised the society's expectations and abhorred materialism which was one of the reasons he struggled to get along with his father. McCandless was a strong perpetrator of transcendental ideas, which one can…