Why Is Chris Mccandless Go To Into The Wild Essay

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Into the Wild essay
Some people may think that Chris McCandless went into the forrest because he wanted to do things on his own go explore, live free without having to pay bills and live under his parents he wanted to be on his own with no one surrounding him. But that's not the full reason behind what drove him to the wild he hated his parents because they offered to pay for his law school and buy him a new car because his old one wasn’t running good anymore. There are many other reasons why Chris left his home his family and many other people to go into the wild.

One reason why Chris left was because he wasn’t really that social with other people he never talked to anyone and when he did it was only short statements he didn't really have any friends he was a very quiet guy. In his journey to the …show more content…

He wanted his parents to suffer and he wanted to give them payback because they offered to buy him a car and to pay for law school. Chris states in the story Into the Wild “ I’m going to have to be real careful not to accept a new car from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect ”. Chris obviously doesn’t respect his parents enough that they have to do everything for him so that he would love them more. But Chris is very stubborn he doesn’t like the fact that they were willing to get him a new car for school. He wants to go into the wild to teach his parents a lesson that they will miss him when he’s gone. To me thats a mixture of stubbornness and stupidity. Because not only did he go into the wild without any help or GPS or knowledge about living in the wild, he didn’t tell his parents anything or tell them where he was so maybe they would help. But chris died eating poison berries but he didn’t know that they were poisoned and he left his parents wondering where he was but they never knew where he

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