Analysis Of Into The Wild Chris Mccandless

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When stepping out of the wild one may notice that it is not usual for a person to want to escape their life and settle into the wilderness, thinking that is the best way to live life. A young Chris McCandless indeed believed so. He believed that the life he was living was not the way he would of liked and made a change, a very “normal” one. Chris McCandless escaped society and its attributes to live his dream. He lived in a middle class household with both of his parents and lived like any “normal” person would. His father had two families, severely abused Chris’s mother, and was blinded by materialism. On the other hand, his mother, Billie, was also blinded and did not recognize the harm that occurred in the household, including when she …show more content…
It is not normal for two parents to physically hurt each other and be backstabbed emotionally and still love each other and think this is normal. Not to mention that Chris’s father did not emotionally love, all he cared for was material. Chris and Carnie, his sister, were the ones struggling and their parents did not notice. One day, Chris decided he was going to walk into the wild to leave his family, to live without material, to escape society, and to pursue happiness. Although McCandless was indeed a smart individual and a Emory graduate, he failed and led himself to his own death by believing that he could survive in the wild. In Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into The Wild, one can come to the conclusion that Chris McCandless was abnormal, spelling out his absurdity and therefore leading him to his own …show more content…
Due to him being crazy and not thinking, he did not prepare himself well enough for his journey and barley studied survival, he ate some seeds in the wilderness and died of intoxication. Not to mention that he also died of simply living in the wild of alaska without any important resources like calefaction. Regardless of his intent, he did accomplish one thing, “to be in a world cut off from mankind and society” (Krakauer). Chris desperately wanted to survive in the wild and live there away from everyone and everything he did not appreciate and did so but what he also accidently accomplished going on “an epic journey that changed it all” (Krakauer). Chris made history, today, everyone knows his story because he practically killed himself using a method not common. Regardless, if had not died and people knew he was living there, he still would of gotten popular and would've still been in the
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