Into The Wild Argumentative Essay

Lastly, Chris Mccandless got to fulfill his dream, live his own life, and now he even got to find his inner self, find out who he truly is. Chris was the kind of person that lived dangerously unlike most people, he was different “It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders...Danger has always held a certain allure. McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme” (Krakauer, 182). Chris’s true self-was one that was riskful and daring until he could finish the task. Furthermore, he was different from others and throughout his journey, others could see that. In the end that was the kind of person Chris Mccandless was, and this is the person he became after fulfilling his dream and living his own life. In contrast, others did

Overall, Chris McCandless was a smart young boy who was raised into the wrong society and he chose to be the way he was. Going into the wild was what Chris needed in order to get away from everybody and find his reality. By the end of his journey he did just that and was ready to come back and experience life from a different point of view. Unfortunately, Chris was unable to come back and show everyone the person he found himself to

As one of the main characters, Chris’s biggest obstacle is confronting the stereotypes that people hold against him. Based on the success of his siblings and father, Chris is assumed to be a tough, no-good, stupid kid. Even his friends have accepted and believe this presumption on a subconscious level. Up until their trip to find the body, Chris had disagreed with these stereotypes but had not made any move to confront them head on. This is the only way that he could truly move past them and prove everyone wrong, because he’s not going to get anywhere if he is categorizing himself into these boxes as well. There are little experiences that lead up to the turning point when Chris really confronts this obstacle, but the main experience is when he confides in Gordie about the lunch money scandal. He not only tells something he has never said before because he feels it wouldn’t make a difference either way; he also lets down his emotional guard which is a sign of maturity for Chris, the groups “tough guy”.

Imaging your brother or sister, daughter or son gone in an instant, just like Chris, that causes any family to have deep heartbreak and damage. Chris left for two years not telling anyone what he was doing or where he was going. He had compassion and sympathy for the poor and his environment. “How is it ... that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?”(104). This confirms that he did cause his parents great pain, also how he has so much compassion to others but he could not even show that to his parents is heartbreaking and selfish. Chris was out of his family's’ sight for a long time. He felt he needed to get the full experience and shut his parents out. McCandless had chances to mail his parents and sister about his travels but chose not to, creating a lost connection between them. “When Gallien asked whether his parents or a friend knew what he was up to— whether there was anyone who would sound the alarm if he got into trouble and was overdue—Alex answered calmly that no, nobody knew of his plans, that in fact he hadn’t spoken to his family in nearly two years. “I’m absolutely positive, ” he assured Gallien, “I won’t run into anything I can't deal with on my own” (6).

Many readers of the book “Into the Wild,” have different opinions of Chris McCandless. Some say he was an idiot, crazy, adventurer, inspiration, ignorant, rash, and many other titles that people could label Chris as. I believe that Chris was a smart, competent, and for the most part an adventurer. Although he was emotional, rash, and daring, this didn’t help him at all probably led to his demise on his trip to Alaska. Chris was a very smart man who graduated from a very prestigious school named Emory in Atlanta Georgia.

Krakauer describes Chris when he states, “But I believe we were similarly affected by the skewed relationships we had with our fathers. And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul” (155). Krakauer believe sthat Chris and him are alike. He believes that sense their relationship with their fathers were not suitable, that’s why the both ended up going into the wilderness to be free. He believes that Chris shares the same drive as him, the same recklessness, and the anxiety. He believes that Chris was a lot like and they shared the same qualities. Chris was just trying to be free from the world and find new things and answers. Furthermore, Krakauer depicts Chris by stating, “Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from it trajectory” (106). Krakauer believes that Chris was different form the people around him. He had a different way of looking at thing and a different way of doing them. He thought that this maybe the reason why Chris left everything behind and went to the wild to find

Chris was self-centered because when he made relationships throughout his journey, he abandoned them aimlessly. Chris said “I have some good friends here, but no one really understands why I am

Chris McCandless was a combination of being insane and sane at the same time. He was sane when it came to ordinary life, yet his ideologies and beliefs caused him to be a bit too extreme with his practices. He focused too much on the fiction of Tolstoy and Thoreau and took it too seriously. Although Chris was a straight A student, he lacked common sense. He’s planned to run away for a long time yet instead of

As the novel progressed the perception of Chris may be confusing for some as he is dealing with multiply obstacles. Chris says, “ The whole idea was to lose our bearing to push ourselves into unknown territory. Pg 65” Even though he was going through a lot the message was still clear. Chris was trying to see how free he could actually be by pushing himself to unknown boundaries and venturing ahead where no one would.

His parents were extremely alarmed when they heard about this brush with disaster, but were unsure how to persuade Chris to exercise more caution in the future”(Into The Wild 118). With that said, as we all know from the book about Chris he basically almost kills himself by going to the southwest and the west coast alone without any help or with any proper equipment. He was gone for a couple months until he came back two days before the first term of college and that was a risky move to do too.

His ignorant actions persuade the reader that he was very emotional and insecure about himself. Chris ran away from his family without even telling his dear sister of his whereabouts. The only person who understood him and he left without a goodbye.

Chris ignored a large decision made by someone he admired and chose to be bitter towards his father and cut him off entirely. This creates the image of someone who has such double standards to where he would cut off those who love him yet admire someone who was clearly a hypocrite to both themselves and Chris’s beliefs. While he may not be breaking his moral code he has a code that he is willing to stretch to support his personal beliefs. Hypocrisy concerning his father is fairly common throughout Chris’s life. Westerberg

In some traditional societies, transgressors are punished with ostracisation – nothing else. Just ignored and treated as if they don’t exist. Left alone. Ousted by their community. Many offenders go mad. Many commit suicide.

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