Into The Wild Christopher Mccandless

Film Analysis of Into The Wild

In 1992, after graduating from college Christopher McCandless donated all his money to charity, left his apartment, and burned the money in his wallet. Shortly after he set off to travel the United States to eventually end up dead in Alaska. Some people question his sanity for leaving behind his life. I believe that he left because his mental state had taken severe damage from the abusive household he grew up in, he was trying to leave behind what he grew up in to find something new. I also think that he was very arrogant for leaving his family without saying goodbye because he only cared about saving himself and escaping from reality.

Chris grew up in an abusive household. His parent were always fighting and they tried to turn their children against each other. When he was little he would protect his sister from his parent’s constient fighting. While his parent would fight they would try to make their children believe they had to do it. For example in the movie Christopher’s father says “Come in here and see what your mother is making me do” or from his mother “Come in here and look what your father in doing to me.” Chris’ mother told him that she got stuck in the relationship with his dad when she became pregnant with him. Hearing this made Chris

believe that he was the reason his parents always fought. Hearing this from a parent would cause a lot of psychological damage to a young child. I believe that Chris left society because he had suffered psychological damage by his parents for his whole life.

Some believe believe that Chris was arrogant and stupid for leaving everything behind.

I believe he was arrogant because he never told his parents or any of his family that he was leaving in fear of them finding him. He only cared about his escape from reality and different care what he had to did to accomplish this. He made his family suffer just so he could escape the world. They worried about him and tried to find him but he only cared about his adventure and he didn’t care what he had to do to accomplish his goal of reaching Alaska. Chris was very arrogant and selfish and didn’t let anything come in the way of accomplishing his goals no matter who he had to hurt on his

way.

Some people also believe that Chris was stupid for doing what he did. I believe he was stupid for leaving because he did not have the knowledge he needed to survive in the Alaskan wilderness. He left with a book on plants he could eat and that was the only survival resource he had. He did not know what to care for himself in the wild or do anything else he needed to survive. He left just to leave and escape his own life. This lead to Chris’ death in Alaska. Some people say that he committed suicide for leaving for Alaska without the knowledge he needed to survive. I believe he did he commit suicide because he knew he wouldn’t be able to survive in the Alaskan wilderness but he went anyway. On his adventure to Alaska multiple people warned him not to go to Alaska, but he went anyway knowing he would have to face the consequences.

Christopher McCandless was a pretty normal person and had anything money could buy his whole life. But he wasn’t happy living his life, so he left everything behind and set off to start a new life for himself in the wilderness of Alaska. I believe he was very arrogant and stupid for leaving his perfect life behind. He made his family suffer for two years because he didn’t tell his family anything before he left. All he cared about was his own escape from the world and didn’t care who he had to hurt to accomplish it. He didn’t care about his family or anything he only cared about what he wanted and he only wanted to escape the urbanized world.