Analysis Of Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

Have you ever wanted to explore the world, or even “start a new life” in the country? In the novel, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, the author emphasizes about a historical young man, Chris McCandless, who is trying to begin a new life in a series based on factual evidence. Throughout the novel, Krakauer guides us to have many questions and concerns about Chris McCandless, his past life and what he had set out to do. Although McCandless was a man that many readers misunderstood, readers were still able to figure his personality out by continuously scrutinizing and taking notes. Jon Krakauer allows us to examine Chris McCandless by providing actual text and dialogue from his family and peers that he had known and ran into while living in the wild.

In the novel, there were many discoveries about Chris McCandless and who he really was. At first, many readers would perceive McCandless to be a very unhinged and

Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent-he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were and he wasn’t a nutcase...McCandless was pilgrim, perhaps”(84). Because McCandless was a believer during the whole duration to his destination, when he died he was at peace with himself and the life that he was given the privilege to live. He no longer was worrying about his father’s betrayal ways, and his mother’s childlike mind. McCandless got what he asked for, and that was to live and to die alone after achieving his dream. Before Chris was at his final ends of life, he took his last breaths to thank god and send everyone his blessings(199). Chris McCandless was born to be an overachiever and died taking pride in who he knew he was and what he had done. He’s more than just a hitchhiker, he’s a