Into the Wild
Many people have the need to go and discover themselves, but lacked the bravery to do it. The non-fiction book titled “Into the Wild”, written by Jon Krakauer; portrays the journey of Christopher McCandless to the Alaskan wilderness, and the events that had led to his departure. His youthful self-centeredness, unfamiliarity of the wild and overconfidence all proved him responsible for his own demise.

Christopher McCandless is not just any other stupid hitchhiker who had thrown his life away. He was educated man who had been raised by relatively wealthy family.
He took isolation from the society to the extreme; donated all his savings to charity, gave away most of his possessions and abandoned his past. Unfortunately for his family, in his youthful self-centeredness he failed to acknowledge human relationships. Though perhaps as Krakauer thinks, given more time, he would have.

Chris challenged himself and went to the wilderness, with little amounts of food supply and equipment. The fact that he had chosen to enter the wild and take such huge undertaking; one would think he lacked common sense. He knew what the risks were and consequences, but he still did it. “It was important for him to see how independent he could be” (page 125). The unforgiving nature of Alaskan wilderness does not take part human’s fragility and Chris understood that fact; “If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk
Basuel 2 into the wild” (page 3), but then he was reckless, “He had no axe, no bug dope, no snowshoes, no compass”(page 5). He was not fully prepared for a life of hunting and gathering, which means he provided unstable, unreliable food source. Chris lack of knowledge about the wilderness and the area was a major factor in his death, “His ignorance is what killed him” (page 72). Also