The Sense Of Adventure In Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

One would think that a person who has courage and sense of adventure would be able to get along with those who want to be close to him. In the novel, “Into the Wild,” by Jon Krakauer Chris McCandless is a college graduate who has trouble with his normal life so he leaves to find go through a life of adventure. When a person goes on an adventure it would bring out true weaknesses like the naive mistakes made before.

For Chris McCandless’s age, it is immature of him to attempt to survive off the Alaskan wilderness that he says would give him freedom live on his wits. Chris left Ron Franz, an old man who appreciates McCandless’s presences. As Ron tries to get close to Chris, Chris has Ron drop him off on the interstate outside of Grand Junction. “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). His immaturity comes with age as he shows how he can be self-centered and reject his emotions towards others. Whenever someone gets close to him, he bails and moves on a different path to get what he wants without making emotional commitment. Chris is young and still has much to learn. Twenty miles from the trail where he was dropped off, Chris stumbled upon a bus by the Soshana River. He called it a magic bus for he had been looking for shelter for a while. The bus is where he did his camping at. “Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Thou shalt not return, ‘cause “the west is the best” (Krakauer 163). This brings back how immature Chris is he has no...

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...would not defy it. He would most likely embrace it to see his dream come true. His naïve mistakes at first seemed to be harmless but they only got worse. Those mistakes led to his death.

When a person focuses on a single objective, it leaves room for mistakes along the way. Chris’s adventure into the wild was rough and he had made lots of mistakes in order to be free from his normal life that had fragments in it he felt unnecessary so he left for Alaska. The expectations to survive for long in the wilderness and come out normally were high for Chris. He had made the naïve mistake of ignoring the signs of his chance of survival were dwindling thus leading to his death. In other story’s the naïve mistakes seem to be what make an epic adventure tale, but for Chris McCandless his story did not live up to what all the tale make of them only there negative possibilities.