Chris Mccandless Persuasion

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Choosing a side of someone’s story that you don’t know. After reading their story, you will form your own opinion. Jon Krakauer wrote Chris McCandless’s story, Into The Wild, shining the light on both sides of the people’s opinions about him. When the news came out in the paper about Chris’s death, many people thought he was a reckless wacko, while others thought he was courageous in going out into the wild. Chris was not prepared in any way possible for what he was going to get himself into. Being as stubborn and naive as he was, he still went and pursued it. McCandless was an intelligent man. He always excelled academically, while also being the cross-country team captain. He would spend the majority of his time on his lonesome. He always …show more content…

A real big difference. You’d have to be pretty stupid not to be able to tell them apart” (Krakauer 177). In reality, McCandless had no idea what he was doing. All he knew was that he needed nutrition. That was not enough to save him up there. “Not only did McCandless die because he was stupid, one Alaska correspondent observed, but ‘the scope of his self-styled adventure was so small as to ring pathetic–squatting in a wrecked bus a few miles out of Healy, potting jays and squirrels, mistaking a caribou for a moose (pretty hard to do).... Only one word for the guy: incompetent” (Krakauer 177). Chris was not meant to be up there. If he had left the bus, and continued his trip, he could have lived. He was incompetent and did not try to get over the river. Despite Chris’s intelligence, it did not help him in the wild. As stubborn as he was, he tried to do everything his way and it led him to his death. He went to one of the harshest environments, unprepared, mentally and physically. Not having the right equipment to sustain himself, and going around in circles back to the bus, which essentially was his home. He should have never gone to Alaska, but his reckless delusion made him believe he’d make

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