Chris Mccandless Neutrality In The Wild

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In the summer of 1992, a moose hunter finds the decomposed body of Chris Mccandless on the Stampede Trail, a popular hunting spot in the wilds of Alaska. A few months later, an aspiring writer for Outsider magazine writes an article over the discovery. This article it the spark that ignites Krakauer's interest in the life of Chris Mccandless. Chris Mccandless was born to an upper mid class family and always had money and nice things as a child. Through high school he keeps money in stock and is happy adding to his supply. In the beginning of his college career he keeps this point of view but towards the end he has a change of heart and realizes the evil that money can insure to its holder. This change of heart is not long lived because in a year or so, Chris has the epiphany that money only causes evil in the hands of the greedy and seems to come to an equilibrium with money. He only makes what he needs and not a cent more. Chris Mccandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, has many different revelations on money, but after it is all said and done, Chris comes to a point of neutrality with money. …show more content…

One of the understandings that he has is about wealth. It seems that the timeline of Chris’s life also follows his sympathies of money. More specifically, his feelings on money change with the relationship he has with his father. Now, Chris and his father do not have the best of relationships throughout his life and it is due to his father’s short time living a double life as in when his father was having to families at one time. When Chris first learns of his father's adultery, he seems to have the revelation that money was the root system of all evil in the world. At this time, he burns or donates all of his money (29), even if he needed it. His view on money seem to vaguely reflect the relationship he has with his

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