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The Story of Chris McCandless: How to View His Story Every single person has a story, and the way it is told is even more unique than the story itself. Prior to Jon Krakauer’s publishment of Into the Wild in 1996, no one knew of Chris McCandless’s hitchhiking travels after he finished college and shut out his family. His motives and thoughts as he traveled from southern California to the wilderness of Alaska will forever be unknown, but Krakauer worked tirelessly to bring Chris’s story to life…

McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, seem completely different. However, the two protagonists are very similar in many ways. Chris and Peter may seem like conflicting characters yet they share many similarities such as, both have an alter ego, both experience issues with family and both embrace the idea of ultimate freedom. These traits reveal that one cannot attempt to stay young forever. Throughout Into the Wild Chris McCandless, also known as Alex Supertramp,…

Hard work always has a successful effect and perseverance comes with a good outcome. Adding these together can be possible to achieve things that are wanted. As Dr. T.P. Chia said, “ Hard work does not necessarily guarantee success, but no success is possible without hard work”. In the book, Hatchet, there was a boy named Brian who settled down in the woods after the plane crashed because of the pilot's heart attack. He is in the wilderness with only his hatchet to survive and many…

Some argue that Chris McCandless is a crazy sociopath who threw away all his fortunes for nature. Although his choice of doing so is questionable, he is the most self-dependent maverick ever. He was an adventurous man seeking to find happiness within himself and going on a adventure to fulfill his goal. Christopher McCandless’s family discussed with multiple interviewers regarding his disappearance. Carine McCandless, Chris’s sister, states “Chris was brilliant at creating diversions, and…

“The Things They Carried” was about parts of Tim O’Brien’s life. It holds details about his life leading up to the war, during the war and after war. In the book he tells about one very important story in particular, in my opinion. The first happens before the war, after he got drafted into the war he got up enough courage to run away and move to Canada. He was on his way to Canada, stopped, and found a motel that this wise old man owned. He stayed there a while and the old man never questioned…

Paulsen and published in 2003. As the main character, Brian Robeson had a plane accident when he was 14 years old. After two years, he doesn’t want to live in a busy city, but he wants to live in the wilderness of Canada, where it had so many trees and wild animals with an adventurous life. At the age of 16, Brian wanted to live alone on the island. He loved to go fishing and hunting. The cave became his house, where he used to sleep. This is all he needed and it made him happy. It was a quiet…

McCandless was an extremely intelligent man, however by going out into the wild without him advising anybody, was not a splendid thought. But he was just a young man that wanted to have an impact on society. In spite of the fact that he didn't make it back, he discovered such a variety of things about himself and despite the fact that he was not there to learn from his errors later he truly did leave an extraordinary message worldwide and an exceptionally fascinating and energizing story. He…

Primitive Survival Sometimes in a persons life they have to sacrifice one thing to another. If we want something we will conquer obstacles to acquire to the thing we want. In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless forfeits human comforts and the ease of a normal life, so he can invent a new life for himself in which he craves freedom. Chris craves something, freedom, and to achieve his independence he will risk his human comforts and eventually his life. As an adventurer,…

In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer was born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. Krakauer explains his main purpose of how Chris McCandless died and why Chris McCandless got to this position. Jon Krakauer also explains his background and how Krakauer relates to Chris McCandless and how their alike and how they are different. After Krakauer graduated college, he spent three weeks of his life alone in the wilderness exploring Alaska and getting to know more of the nature and the…

Krakauer said about Chris. Chris is an excellent of how adventure and freedom can be dangerous. Chris ended up dying because of his freedom and adventurousness. He was overconfident, brought minimal supplies, was uneducated about how to survive in the wild, and uneducated about Alaska. All of these factors lead to his ultimate demise. Chris showed that freedom and adventurous…