Jon Stewart

Into the Wild Chris McCandless was a bright and well brought-up young man with a heart and urge for freedom - except this time, he took it too far. After Chris graduated from college, he traveled around the country and finally made his way to Alaska; he planned to travel into the woods and live out a life of total solitude and freedom, confident he could make it out alive. To the dismay of his loved ones, just a short 16 weeks later his body was found by a group of hunters. The autopsy had…

Imagine a person you never really thought much of left a huge impact on your life and then disappeared. That is how Miles Garth left Anna and May feel after he vanished from their lives in the book There But For The by Ali Smith. Although he may have overstayed his welcome and caused a burden in a few of the characters lives, he is a charismatic person that only does things for the better of the people he cares about. Through analyzing Miles relationships with two of the main characters, it is…

If you’ve ever dreamed of escaping from the rat race and going somewhere you can live simpler life, more in tune with nature, then Life Below Zero is the reality show for you. Unlike other reality shows like Alaskan Bush people (which feels very scripted and unrealistic) there’s no question that what you see on Life Below Zero is authentic. The show follows the lives of people who live in the most remote parts of Alaska and shows viewers just what it takes to live a subsistence lifestyle. These…

The journey Chris McCandless makes into the wild is one of the most unproductive “journey” anyone has made. Chris McCandless’s journey is one that doesn 't seem to be very logical. McCandless’s proved nothing with his journey. The fact that he was not able to complete his journey due to selfishness shows the lack of intelligence Chris McCandless carried one his so call “journey”. Giving out his inheritance and college money just makes Chris sound even more childish. To add on Chris McCandless…

while others saw him as a boy who simply just followed his heart. “I just don’t understand why he had to take those kind of chances,” Billie protests through her tears. “I just don’t understand it all” (Krakauer 132). In the novel, “Into The Wild”, Jon Krakauer portrays Chris McCandless as exactly who he is. A young, reckless boy who went into the wilderness fully aware that the outcome could be fatal. Chris McCandless was a self-centered individual who irrationally ventured off on his…

both positive and negative facts and comments about Chris McCandless by people who have met him during his journey. I don’t think that the author is very sympathetic towards Chris because he is so straightforward and doesn’t really show any emotion. Jon Krakauer sees some of Chris McCandless in himself when he was younger, so he knows how Chris felt. I do not think that Krakauer has sympathy for Chris though, because it was his decisions that led him to his death. Chris McCandless and people…

of thinking, feelings and life itself. It tends not to be something we can understand, have a recipe and just make it. Happiness must be discovered by ourselves. In the documentary Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog and the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer they describe the lives of two men who are both unhappy with the world they live in and believe they can make a difference in their lives by finding peace and solitude in nature. Timothy Treadwell and Chris McCandless share similar…

was very interested in the idea of “transcendentalism”. Chris wanted nothing but to understand how society works so he set off into the wilderness of Alaska to understand the meaning of life. Also, Chris is the young man in “Death of an Innocent”, by Jon Krakalier and the movie Into the Wild by Sean Penn. I highly admire the idea that Christopher was attempting cause you shouldn't always have to depend on a society to survive in life. Christopher McCandless should be admired for his courage to…

Throughout history, there have been many people who have expressed their ideas and lived their lives in ways that others may not be able to understand. There are people in all different cultures who refuse to conform to social norms and live lives the way that society has taught us we’re supposed to. Chris McCandless was one of these people, who, despite what others say, he went about his life how he wanted to, and didn’t give in to people telling him that he should be doing things differently…

Chris McCandless was a well educated and deeply loved person. Everyone in his family admired his personality and his way of being unique. On the other hand people that only know his story think of him differently. Many people say that Chris was an arrogant rich kid and that he had no business being out in the Alaska wild. People also say that Chris was insane or crazy. None of that truly describes Chris McCandless. Shaun Callarman states that Chris died because he was “just plain crazy”. Chris…