The Wild Child

ultimately ended his life. In the non-fictional novel, “Into The Wild¨ by Jon Krakauer depicts Chris McCandless’ odyssey into the Alaskan wild as a search for total freedom. His experience with thrill-seeking stemmed from a wild childhood, a humble and selfless young adult life, and his life before death can be described as unaccustomed. His covet for an odyssey began in his childhood, grew into his teens, and ended in as a young adult. As a child, Chris is described by his sister as someone…

Into the Wild Argumentative Essay Christopher McCandless stated “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure, the joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences.” Chris McCandless had been a very spontaneous person in his time of living. McCandless always did things the way he wanted to do them. He was an independent person who did courageous things. McCandless never let people get him down, because he knew the things he did were gonna be fascinating…

adventurer named Christopher McCandless is a prime example of this statement, however, he had no experience and went into his adventure very unprepared. Christopher McCandless’s memory is kept alive by the biography, Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer. In Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he recalls the brief life of Christopher McCandless as he embarks on a great crusade to fulfill his lifelong dream of living in the Alaskan bush. A few weeks after hiking into the bush, however, McCandless…

times when life’s situations make us do drastic choices, to help us escape, find ourselves or even to heal the soul within. In the novels “Into the Wild,” and “Wild” both of the characters take an unimaginable trip out into the wilderness to escape everyone and everything that at one point in their life’s was important to them. Both “Into the Wild” and “Wild” are distinctly different from each other, despite wilderness being both of the stories it’s symbol. The distinctions between Chris and…

Chris had the world in front of him but he wanted to live life and wanted more than what he got.Chris died by eating wild potato on wild trail that caused his death. Although he graduated and decided that he wanted to big things he did them in the wrong way and had no influence he was arrogant because he knew the choices he was making he just started living life a bit to early…

If a man walks into the woods as a protest against the rampant materialism and conformity of society, and no one is there to hear him scream in rage, does he make a sound? Directed by Sean Penn, Into the Wild is a film based on the true events which inspired Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. Rather than revolving the plot around McCandless and his journey, both Krakauer and Penn took a different path on telling the story. The novel relied heavily on McCandless’ journal and accounts from…

In the memoir Wild by Cheryl Strayed, she recounts her 1,100 mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). After losing her mother to lung cancer, her marriage ending in divorce because of her infidelity, her family struggling to stay connected, and her drug use, Strayed turned to the PCT in hopes of finding herself and becoming the woman her mother always hoped she would be. While visiting Minneapolis, she picks up the book, The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California. At first, she picks up…

A good portion of Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, is focused on the characterization of the protagonist, Chris McCandless. Krakauer shares his opinions on Chris frequently throughout the duration of his novel. Krakauer very purposefully dictates what anecdotes he wants to include in his novel to shape how the reader views Chris. A very prominent theme that is made apparent to the reader about Chris is how young he is. By making this, a theme Krakauer asks the reader to treat Chris’ adventures…

I came to believe that everyone needs someone to lean on. Whether it's a mother and a child, two inseparable friends, a husband and a wife, or even a dog and its owner. Everyone needs someone to rely on in this life. We cannot live life alone." While reading this excerpt I immediately thought about Chris. His entire journey was him isolating himself from the rest of civilization. He went into the Alaskan wild by himself, refusing help from anyone. He tried to distance himself from any human…

seeing these events allows you to grow and learn more about yourself. How planning a trip to see these ritual events brings a new point of view into your life just how traveling thourghout nature did for Christopher Mccandleuss in the movie “Into The Wild”. But even though the author Francine Prose came to know and understand the things around her just like Christopher did in the film they both faced different sets of dangers. Francine Prose in one of her travels became sick after drinking tea…