Chris Mccandless Argument

Chris McCandless was a very bright young man yet he was very ignorant at the same time. I do agree with Shaun Callarman with his argument about how Chris McCandless was a very ignorant man. Chris had such a bright future ahead of him by graduating from Wilbert Tucker High School and being a college graduate from Emory University with a bachelor 's degree in history and anthropology and yet he just let all of that go to waste. He was ignorant to the fact that he wanted to find happiness since he couldn 't find it within his household since his parents got into fights all of the time, and so he chose to leave that life, not tell his parents where he was going (which was stupid of him to not tell them), also it was completely stupid and dumb of

He could 've even kept the money and go into town and what not to buy some food incase he couldn 't hunt anymore. I say that it is very ironic since Chris McCandless had donated all of his money to the hungry, and burned some of it too, yet he had died from starvation instead of keeping it and buying the food. A good example to why Chris did not use common sense is from Jessica Duling and she states “Chris McCandless was unprepared in more ways than one”, “why would anyone intending to live off the land for a few months, forget Boy Scout rule number one: Be Prepared”. I strongly agree with Jessica because the only thing that chris did to learn on how to live in the wild was buy a book on different types of plants and which ones are poisonous and which ones are not. I believe that if Chris had used a little common sense he would 've at least told his parents or brought a map or maybe look up how Alaska acts during the winter through the summer and maybe he might still be living till this

He had such a great education and majored in history and anthropology and could 've started a new life somewhere else and find his own happiness instead of having to die in the end. There are so many other thoughts about Chris McCandless how he wasn 't ignorant and how they say that it was the best call for him to do that, but there were so many other ways for him to make his life better by talking to his parents or at least start off new somewhere else. I think that he was ignorant because of the path that he took and why he did it, yes there was no stopping him and I understand that, but he did not tell anyone where he was going, not even his parents, did not bring a map, did not learn more on how to live in the wild, and just burned all of his money and just threw away all of his social security number and etc... That is why I think that he was an ignorant man who just left everyone out of his life without telling them, and just got himself killed in the