...Going into the wild isn’t something most people would willingly do. Chris McCandless had many reasons to leave his family, he wasn’t crazy. If he was crazy like most people might say, he wouldn’t have been able to survive alone in the wilderness for 113 days. He definitely wasn’t street smart and lacked common sense nut that doesn’t mean he was crazy. McCandless lacked knowledge of where he he was going and wasn’t prepared for the brutality of nature. Chris McCandless wasn't a crazy person or an outcast because he got along with people very well but he did seem somewhat incompetent even though he survived for a while. Chris McCandless was very bright and made some good decisions. For example, " He'd excelled academically and then an elite athlete" (Pg.1). This shows Chris wasn't dumb he graduated from Emory University, he wasn't street smart but he was definitely book smart. Another example would be, “McCandless gave the entire balance of $24,000 of savings account to charity” (Pg.1). McCandless donated his money to OXFAM to help starvation. Chris was also friendly and had a strong effect on people. For example, “He helped me out,’...
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...Shaun Callarman believed that McCandless was not courageous nor noble. This is actually how I see McCandless as well. He was crazy. It was probably the dumbest thing that Chris could’ve done with his life. Although he had a rough upbringing and a fallout with his dad, I do not think that going into the wilderness ill-prepared was the best way to deal with his issues. Chris McCandless was a boy from the suburbs of Virginia who was very athletic. He was only twenty four years old when his body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. He was a student at Emory University and shortly after he graduated, he set off on his adventure that would later kill him. McCandless became angry with his family because he had found out that his father had had another family when Chris was just a child. This information is what set Chris off and provoked him to leave with no return. He had no intentions on telling his parents or sister where he was going. This is the most psychotic act I have ever heard of. Chris changed his identity by going by name “Alex.” Personally, I do not think that this was a smart idea at all. Chris...
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...Throughout the novel “Into the Wild” written by Jon Krakauer, there are many examples of the main character being labeled as not a smart person. In the novel, the main character Chris McCandless was brutally insulted by many when he appeared dead on the newspaper. Those statements consist him being, reckless, crazy, arrogant, and more. Firstly, I somewhat disagree and agree with Callarman’s ideals. As Callerman’s states, “I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time,” I start to feel their are many ideas how this quote can be related to my personal life and more. I agree with Callerman’s statement because there was no doubt Chris McCandless was arrogant, but he was not as ignorant as I thought. In my opinion, the...
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...believe that Christopher McCandless was not a crazy person, however, he may have been incompetent in the sense that he was unprepared and rash in his decision making. Throughout the novel, the author, Jon Karakauer, explained the life of Chris McCandless and his last journey in the American west. Krakauer describes McCandless’s journey with so much detail and information provided by his loved ones that it’s clear to suggest McCandless was intelligent, stubborn, and unprepared during his lifelong adventure. Throughout the novel, Krakauer pieces together the puzzle that was Christopher McCandless’s life. While most of Chris’s family was in utter confusion and grief as to why Chris would leave without a trace, Krakauer discovered why and...
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..."Knowledge makes people humble. Arrogance makes people ignorant." I think that Chris McCandless was ignorant and had no common sense for traveling into the Alaskan wilderness. He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I thought that he was plain crazy for just dropping everything he had to go live in the wilderness because he was living a good life. Chris McCandless was very bright yet very ignorant. Who in their right mind would want to go to the wilderness and live there for fun without letting anybody know. Chris should’ve informed his family about his journey. They were worried sick about him and he didn’t really care because he thought only of himself. Young men like McCandless who perished in the wild searching for transcendent experiences...
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...I agree with the author that Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath or an outcast because he got along with many people very well, but he did seem somewhat incompetent even though he survived for a while. He knew some things about surviving alone in the wild but also learned things too with being out in the wild. Chris started his adventure and had the right to go and explore the wild on his own. In the wild, there are many things to find, but Chris seeked one thing in particular in the wilderness, but what was it he was trying to look for. The one thing he was trying to seek in particular was maybe this, “…only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. (Krakauer 189)”. He noted “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED” (Krakauer 189). Maybe this is what he seeked in the wilderness, “Happiness”. McCandless did find happiness before he died, so that might have been the thing he meant to seek out in the wilderness....
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...Krakauer. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article on Christopher McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an intelligent, idealistic young man who believed that life was best lived alone, in nature. He spent two years testing his theory throughout the western United States before he entered the wilds of Alaska unprepared and starved to death. Chris had a very bright, hopeful future and why he left it all behind confuses most people. After analyzing Chris's personality traits, it helps things make sense. This makes many people ask the question, what was Christopher McCandless's temperament type? The theory of temperament type was introduced in the 1920s by Carl G. Jung. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. Based on evidence from the story, Chris McCandless was most likely an INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving) temperament type. This means he was focused internally, where he dealt with things rationally and logically. Some people would diagree wiht this position and would argue that Chris McCandless leaned towards the preference of sensing and feeling. There is some evidence provided in the story that Chris demonstrated the preference of sensing. According to MBTI basics, a person...
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...Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild, was not ignorant or unprepared, but he was going out into the wilderness to find the true meaning of life and to see what it was like to live out in the wild on his own. Chris was a great role model for kids all across the country; because he was trying to live out his dream and do what he thought was right in the wild and would not listen to what anyone told him to do. Chris McCandless was a loving and caring person who cherished for all creation and wanted to get away from the society and live free to find the meaning of life. I feel that Chris McCandless was a person in the world who didn’t like society and wanted to get away from people to become free in the wild. Chris never liked being in society with people and wanted to get away from them as much as he could. When the book opens, we see Chris hitchhiking into the wilderness trying to get away from society when he gets a lift from Jim Gallien. Chris was going to hitchhike to Denali National Park and get away from society and be free. Jim Gallien picked him up and drove him there. When he dropped him off, Chris did not bring much and his only food was a ten pound bag of rice because he wanted to experience the wild and be a part of it. In college at the Emory University, he never had a good social life with people and Krakauer states when people tried to talk to him at parties, “It was hard to get him to open up.” His studies were the only thing he was interested...
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...Why would someone like Chris McCandless want to hitchhike and live in the wilderness out West? From birth Chris McCandless lived a most considerable privileged life. McCandless grew up with everything given to him; therefore Chris never endured the hardships in terms of finance. As McCandless grew older the life filled with materialistic possessions and physical conveniences was not helping him grow as a person and did not help him make sense of the world.” The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun,” in happiness Chris expresses. Chris craved adventure, to get lost in nature, and to find himself through his passion of adventure. Chris later believed that his privileged life was cruel and evil, so he ventured out to live a life filled with new excitement each day that only required his heart for adventure and the clothes on his back. Unlike most people, Chris idealism of life was living on the edge and taking risky chances. Prone to explore Chris left his privileged...
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...Into the wild The book Into the wild, by Jon Krakauer, is about a man named Christopher McCandless, who was a very wealthy person, because of his successful parents. Chris McCandless graduated from Emory University as one of their top students and he was also really good athlete. Instead of Chris McCandless following the American Dream, and having his parents pay for a really good college he rebelled and took a life changing journey. He was still very intelligent, however, and decided to change his lifestyle, and he gave his savings to save the hungry charity. Afterwards he burned his money on his journey to the Alaska to find his inner self and get to a certain spiritual journey he was trying to achieve. Because Chris’s life style is changing I give him props for taking control and doing what he is ‘passionate’ about. However I have to agree with Shaun Callarman’s quote, “I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his romantic silliness. He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don’t admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy.” This is because he had noble ideas, but he took them way too far and was very arrogant. Chris Mccandless would be considered a freak because he went along with what he wanted to do, which was to go into the wild and it was not to follow what everyone else wanted him to do, this happened his entire...
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...Chris McCandless is a legendary explorer that inspires many people to go out and do some pretty crazy, but amazing things. In Jon Krakauer’s Into The Wild, Krakauer told the epic story of when Chris McCandless dropped everything in 1988 and went on a long journey across the states and ended up in Alaska for his last big adventure. This last adventure cost McCandless his life, nevertheless he was still an amazing adventurer. He was an amazing adventurer because he was very resourceful, he was a great athlete, and perseverance First, what makes McCandless an adventurer? It has to be his trait of being resourceful. One example of this trait is him hitchhiking across the country. This was seen in the first chapter of Krakaer’s book, when Jim Gallien picked up McCandless and dropped him off at the Stampede Trail (5). This shows that he can travel by using the hand he was dealt with. Another time McCandless showed that he was resourceful by killing animals like porcupine, squirrels, and a moose. Killing these...
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...he is severely under equipped. For example, “Alex’s backpack looked though as it weigh only twenty-five or thirty pounds, which struck Gallien an accomplished hunter and woodsman- as an improbably light load for a stay of several months in the back country, especially so early in the spring (Krakauer12).” The stampede trail. This chapter describes the how hard it is to get to an old bus hunters use for during hunting season. Even though it is nearly impossible to reach, because of its dense shrubbery and swift, deep, river you have to cross; five couples still manage to arrive at the bus. A couple from Anchorage were the first to show up at the bus, and notice a vile stench. Once the parties read the letter, the called the state troopers....
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...the reader insight on how chris changed his name and changed from a middle class family to hitch hiking all the way to alaska. it shows that he doesn't want any contact with the outside world. It shows that Chris is thinking that he may not make it back. “proves fatal” (Krakauer,3) How does McCandless’s attitude about government parallel that of Thoreau’s. they both believe that the government is has now power over them. amd they don't answer to it. they both ignore the laws set by the government. “How I feed myself is none of the government’s...
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...man named Chris McCandless sets out on a journey in the wilderness, leaving society behind. Like a transcendentalist named Henry David Thoreau, he began “essential living”. Chris McCandless is considered a transcendentalist because he lives a simple life, and choses to abandon society and live out in the wilderness. A simple life is what transcendentalists believe in. In the book Walden, Thoreau mentions, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” This hints at the idea of a simple life where everything is organized and reduced....
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...were one is unified with nature. Chris McCandless was one of those people that was looking for this. He was, however, very narcissistic and stubborn in his ridiculous quest, and failed to realize that the real reason why he felt he had to be one with nature, was because he had to find peace with his parents. Chris went into the wild looking to find complete freedom with nature, a better understanding of the world around him, but ultimately, to find forgiveness for his parents. Freedom from materialistic goods and authority are common themes throughout the story shown by Chris’ actions and how he wished to be...
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