Though a very exuberant person, Chris McCandless is no longer part of a superficial world.Chris McCandless comes from a society that is very cynical and hippocritical.He idolizes nature as the way to escape the rest. He will not stop until he meets his goals of adventure. The song “I'm Moving On”, by Rascal Flatts , portrays Chris's hopeless and agitated thoughts about the society that forces him to move on and find his path in life. Chris McCandless is a very temperate person and he does not like being told he is not able to do something. Like Rascal Flatts sings “ They'll never allow me to change”, Chris cannot say “... through the hypocrisy of his parents lifestyle, the tyronny of their conditional love “(Krakauer 64). To him , Society including his family,are greedy people that only want …show more content…
to have uneeded thing just to show power.
Chris does not care about status,such as when he donates $25,000 to OXFAM America. He gets rid of what he does not need to help others that do need it. Another reason Chris disapproves Society is that everyone is the same, radical changes are not accepted. In his song, Flatts contemplates how “Each one is different but they're always the same, they mean no harm but it's time that I face it”. This line mirrors Chris's dislike that everyone expects that after college, he should follow his families ways throughout his life and keep the the name in high status. Anything that is different from the common is seen as very hostile, especially his father Walt Westerberg. Perhaps, Chris's mistake is that he underestimates the need of supplies or the help of people. Rascal Flatts states “ I had to lose everything to find out.” Chris is a very hardheaded person. He thinks that he can survive in the
wilderness with just a 10 pound bag of rice and a couple of simple supplies. He starves due to the fact that he was no longer able to get food. He does not believe in getting help, he believes he can do everything by himself. Describing how Chris's attidude is, Henry David Thoreau says about the men: none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he know until he is tried. ( Thoreau 258) Chris is simple putting out his type A personality. He believes he is good enough to face obstacles. Perhaps, as he lives his last moments knowing death is close he realizes that in life help is always needed,when he desperatly needs food. He leaves a note incase anybody walks byto help him, this shows he no longer can do it byhimself. Though McCandless does not achieve his desired goal he is always determined. John Krakeur interprets the optimistic energy he has..”most people have no idea how hard that actually is and McCandless almost pulled it off.”(Krakauer 185) The world seems cold to Mcandless, but he did not let this bring him down, he fights it in his own special way. The instrumentation in the song “Im Moving On” is a very melancholic beat. It plays along with McCandles's life, a struggle to get away from a place he feels he does not belong in.The title of the song gives it all, he is moving on in search of what makes him happy. Although the mandolin mainly shows McCandles's miserable and hostile toughts about the society, it has high notes of an optimistic feeling.He leaves society to leave behind the fake idealogies of people and search what he loves. The song makes it sound as if he will move on and nothing will stop him. Through the song “ I'm Moving On ”, Rascal Flatts makes it clear that Chris is going to move on and nothing is going to stop him as he gets away from Society. The song sounds hopeful but sadly McCandless does not achieve living in the wilderness all alone. The death of Chris McCandless teaches us that in life no matter how wise or powerful you are , you will always need help especially in the wilderness.
Many people thought that Chris had no idea what he was doing and that he was very unprepared. In an article, written by Peter Christian, an Alaska Park Ranger, he talks about how Chris was unprepared for his trip: “First off, he spent very little time learning how to actually live in the wild. He arrived at the Stampede Trail without even a map of the area. If he had a good map he could have walked out of his predicament using one of several routes that could have been successful. …A bag of rice and a sleeping bag do not constitute adequate gear and provisions for a long stay in the wilderness.” Christian believed that Chris was very unprepared and if he would have had a map, he could have made it out of the wild alive. No one really knows if Chris could have, indeed, made it out using the map. But it could have helped him find one of three cabins located within a few miles of the bus. Christian also points out that a bag o...
Although living this life is not always easy for Chris, he embarks on this adventure to achieve what truly matters to him in life.
Chris McCandless is very stubborn. Chris McCandless fails to see reality and that is one of his tragic flaws this is what ultimately leads to his demise. Chris McCandless doesn’t accept help or...
Who influenced the other party more? Chris or the people he met along his journey? Without any money, or material objects Chris was able to leave a lasting impact on the people he met on his journey to Alaska. In Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless is able to leave a greater influence on the people he met along his journey to Alaska rather than the impact they made on him.
According to others, Chris McCandless was inherently selfish. Please, let’s beg to differ, for goodness sake, he was a grown man! It was his life and he was living it the way he wanted to. Chris gave his sister fair warning. He bid to her, “Since they won’t ever take me seriously, for a few months after graduation I’m going to let them think they are right, I’m going to let them think that I’m “coming around to see their sides of things” and that our relationship is stabilizing. And then, once the time is right, with one abrupt, swift action I’m going to completely knock them out of my life...” (Krakauer 64) He knew what he had to do. He had to show his parents how they had made him feel his whole life. As a graduation present they offered him a new car, his old Datsun apparently was to their standards. Chris became infuriated. That was his pride and joy, how dare them try and take that away! They ignored what he was saying, as he did many times before, he o...
How many individuals have gone to extreme lengths to reevaluate who they are as a person, to find their purpose? Christopher McCandless was an outrageous individual who was not afraid to push the boundaries, because of his dauntless behavior people questioned his sanity. Many people referred to Chris as a selfish person for not looking back when he decided to go into the wilderness. Christopher McCandless was not a selfish person because he has inspired many individuals to not be afraid and just go into the wild. Chris made an excellent choice by leaving; people dwell differently, on his journey he inspired many, and he hasn’t once took advantage of the opportunities he was given by those he come across in his journey. People didn’t agree with Chris’s decision to pack and leave. In chapter 8 of Into the Wild John Krakauer includes letters that he receives from people that did not agree, and believed that Chris was a selfish person Most of the letters that John Krakauer received were nasty and unnecessary; they were letters of individuals expressing their opinion on Christopher McCandless. “McCandless had already gone over the edge and just happen to hit rock bottom in Alaska.”(Jans) nobody deserves to die, especially not a horrific death like Christopher McCandless. Cristopher McCandless past because of starvation and possibly poisoned by a wrong plant he consumed. His decomposing body weighing only sixty seven pounds was discovered in the Alaska terrier inside a rustic old bus that was located twenty five miles west of Healy, and was used as a halfway boundary.. His body was discovered by a group of people, who rescued his body and found Chris. Those letters expressed the opinions of many; the people believed Chris was childish ...
...irrefutably suggest that he was selfish and unwilling to put any effort into emotional healing with his family, friends and society in general. He was a giver, as shown by his donation to charities, but he could have been much more effective in social justice if he had the maturity and selflessness to pursue it and stick to it. Chris could have been a lasting friend to many people around the country, but he got scared off too easily when facing emotional connections. And most painfully for his family, he could have saved his own life and saved them a lifetime of pain and sorrow if he could have sat down with his parents and siblings to discuss what was bothering him and find ways to work through it. But he ran into the wild, laid his life on the line, and took the coward’s way out.
...tic things. He sacrificed so much and put himself in danger to follow what he wanted to do. Chris was a smart cookie, and maybe that was what kept him going was the knowledge flooding through his body and the inspiration that reading gave him.
...Finally what Chris left for them was only the sadness. Chris had always been walking away from relationships just because he was afraid of the constraint by all kinds of relationships. While, as a matter of fact, real relationships with those people who will never ever hurt you would not ever limit you. Thus, what really counts is that we must learn to stay in the hard parts of life and try rather than run away. This may be called responsibility.
The settings in the story have impacts on the theme of young manhood. Chris leaves his family and decides to go on a journey to find a new life. Christopher felt affected in his family presence so he sends his final school report to his family: “McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well-relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it”(Krakauer,55). He believes that this is a way to find his true identity and peace of mind, which he thought could be achieved by fleeing into the wild. Chris seemed to have a bad relationship with his parents, especially with his father because Chris found out that he had a child with his first wife when Chris was born. This fact is revealed by his dad’s old neighbour, “Walt’s split from his first wife, Marcia, was not a clean or amicable parting. Long after falling in love with Billie, long after she gave birth to Chris, Walt continued his relationship with Marcia in secret” (Krakauer121). Chris knew about his father’s affair with another woman and this made it easier for Chris to not care about what his family has to say ...
He took everything in his life to the extreme. As stated earlier, “It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure….”(Krakauer 182). People want to live while their young, therefore they take risks. However, what McCandless did was more than just risk taking. He contained something along the lines of an excessive hubris. ‘“He didn’t think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the edge,” vocalizes Walt McCandless (Krakauer 109). Trudging into the vast Alaskan wilderness without proper provisions is taking the extreme too far. As Krakauer states, “...[Chris] was fully aware when he entered the brush that he he had given himself a perilously slim margin for error” (182). Only someone with an extensive hubris would commit an act so dangerous and be confident in their survival. Although he lent himself to a handful of stupid mistakes, McCandless was far from an idiot. Even though the extreme he took his Alaska adventure to was ill-advised, there is something about Chris that is almost admirable. Many people have dreams and passions that get shoved into an old chest and are never to be visited again. In today’s society it seems as though everyone is
McCandless, an intelligent child to say the least, was frustrated with orders by anyone. He wanted to do things his way or no way and he does this throughout his life. Whether it was getting an F in physics because he refused to write lab reports a certain way (an F was something that was never on McCandless report card) or not listening to advice from his parents to the extreme of leaving society to go into the wilderness, McCandless definitely was not a follower. His parents were told by one of his teachers at an early age that Chris "marched to the beat of his own drummer". Chris never lost his ability to do things the way he wanted and when he wanted to do them. After receiving his diploma from Emory in 1990 he set off on a two-year escapade that would eventually end his life but in my opinion, if Chris could start over he would probably not do things much differently. I think he would still donate his $25,000 to an organization, leave his car in the woods, burn the remainder of his money, and hitch-hiked across the United States. The only thing he might do differently is finding a way not to starve to death at the end of the novel.
Chris Mccandless underwent his own personal frontier by coming to the realization of the importance of others. Chris and his family had a very complicated relationship, specifically between him and his father, Walt. His father deeply betrayed Chris and his family by having an affair with his ex wife, and as a result, Chris resented him. His father tried multiple methods to gain his forgiveness such as buying him nice things, however Chris forcefully rejected his materialism and overbearing nature and had no interest in pursuing any sort of relationship with him. His father’s betrayal is one of many reasons that lead him to sever all ties with his family and old life and head out west, for he felt he did not need human relationships in his
Chris McCandless denounces and rejects American materialism. He leaves his parents and the upper middle-class suburban setting in which they raised him. He fails to appreciate
Krakauer said “McCandless change his name, gave the entire balance of a 24 thousand-dollar saving account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his pocket” (Author’s note). Family is an important factor in everyone’s life; apparently that was not enough for Christopher McCandless. I have been fortunate to live with my family my whole life.