Save Wild Life Essay

just had to be insane to do what he did. Others put him up on a pedestal, and admire him for his courage. My opinion is that Chris was not crazy, he was just a stupid, inexperienced, arrogant boy who wanted to prove he could survive on his own in the wild. McCandless was an educated man. After all, he, “graduat[ed], with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990.” (Author’s Note) But the one thing he lacked was common sense. An example is his good deed of donating the rest of his…

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you know who you are and you know what you want.” This quote speaks volumes regarding the individual and their own beliefs. However, there are definitely limitations and boundaries to the desires of some people. In the nonfiction novel, “Into the Wild,” (1996) author Jon Krakauer asserts that Chris McCandless was not just some dumb kid who got himself killed in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer supports this assertion by giving the reader insight into Chris’ motives for taking the trip, hoping…

To crave is to feel a powerful desire for something. This is an emotion each and every human has known. Much of the time as individuals mature, they experience a craving for a sense of their own identity. Into the Wild is a non fiction book by Jon Krakauer about Christopher McCandless and his journey as he discovered who he was, independently from his family. For the majority of his youth Chris idolized non-conformist authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, and Leo Tolstoy who…

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography. A young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless takes a journey to Alaska to get away from the society and people in his life, like his family. Chris goes to Alaska with no money and the bare necessities to survive in the wilderness. Chris dies because he ended up needing the items he did not have, but Chris did and experienced a lot before he died. Chris makes an identity, which is being stubborn, ungrateful, and only depends on himself and that…

While reading both, “Into the Wild”, and “Tuesdays with Morrie”, I have realized that both have shared a theme of personal fulfillment shown through the characters. Chris McCandless and Morrie Schwartz show personal fulfillment in unique ways. Personal fulfillment is when you feel like you achieved something great in your life. You can also feel satisfied with yourself or your life and feel happiness. Chris wasn’t very happy growing up because of the way his lifestyle was with his parents. He…

fondness of his Grandpa and what he stood for, the outdoors, independence, and craftiness, may have been a large factor which played into Chris’s shaping up into the person who he was. At this point in his life, McCandless was able to look to not only his parents, but to other adults in his life as mentors too. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, McCandless has achieved the bottom three, and most basic steps; biological and physiological needs, safety needs, and belongingness and love…

nonfiction Into the Wild depicting McCandless 's trip from his home to his cold grave. In the last chapter, Krakauer suggested McCandless 's death was resulted from consuming poisonous mold seeds. However, I believe the cause of his death is much more than just eating toxic seeds: McCandless…

Instead of following social norms and living how society, his parents, and those around him told him to, Chris ventured out into the world on his own to live his life by his own rules. Chris did not care what other people thought of him and he did not want to live the way society taught him to. By rejecting money, cars, maps, and other things that could have kept him alive, he proved himself to be an independent and adventurous young man. “I can almost understand why he rejected maps, common…

actually because he mixed up two easily mistaken plants. One plant was good for you, and the other, when eaten enough of, was lethal. When Chris went into a drought of game, he subsisted off of plants. He ate a lot of the wild potato seed, which he mixed up with the wild pea seed. This killed him in the end. ?The main reason of Chris? expedition into the Alaskan interior was to see how far he could go, test his limits, and stand face to face with nature? (Krakauer…