Along Chris’s adventures he was told not to do many things. The biggest thing people tried to steer chris away from was going on his trip on the stampede trail into the alaskan outback.”But when they get here and actually head out into the bush--well, it isn't like the magazines make it out to be. The rivers are big and fast. The mosquitos eat you alive. Most places, there aren't a lot of animals to hunt. Livin’ in the bush ain't no picnic.”(Krakauer 4-5) This quote is said my gallian a man who picked chris up when he was hitchhiking and brought him to the stampede trail. …show more content…
An example of this is in an article by Ivan Hodes named “What Everyone is Getting Wrong About Chris McCandless”. He says “Into the wild is not actually a book about Chris McCandless is a book about one complicated interesting, troubled guy trying to understand and process the early death of another.” He is showing how it wasn’t Chris McCandless as a person that people remember it is his ideas that really made him what he is today. Anyone could go into the woods and do what he did with no purpose but he had a purpose, he stood up for what he believed in ultimately leading to his death. Chris believed fully in the idea that you do not need material things and he showed that when he went into the wild with minimal