Is Wha Mccandless A Transcendentalist

Into the wild "A young man leaves his middle class existence in pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation.” Giving up his home, family, all possessions but the few he carried on his back (“ Chris was very much of the school that you should own nothing except what you carry on your back at a dead run”pg.32), burned all the money in his wallet, and donating all his savings to charity. His name is Christopher some may say he is he a pilgrim, a sociopath, a Outcast, or is he mentally ill but I say he's a transcendentalist.What is an transcendentalist? Well Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker. All these people have a small relation to Alexander Supertramp. Chris said and did many things that prove himself to be called a true transcendentalist and those things are

These are also transcendental principles. McCandless says to Ron Franz during their last encounter , "I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things" Franz followed Chris words its crazy how the astonishing ability of Christopher McCandless to win friends and influence people. Not only did he befriend Ronald Franz, but he convinced the old man to change his ways at a time in life when most people have settled down for good at 80 years old. It is important to understand that McCandless fled society not because he couldn't get along with others, but because he chose to be alone and his choices led him into the Alaskan Wilderness on a bus with little to no