Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Character Analysis

Chris McCandless was a young man from Virginia who invested his life in finding his true “happy place” by separating himself from the pressures of society. He was often viewed as an arrogant and selfish young man for trying to find his happiness. His actions labeled him as ignorant and rebellious by locals Alaskans. Chris McCandless set out to find a new life for himself and to get away from the pressures of society.

Chris McCandless had the knowledge to survive in the wild but the were some things that he did not understand well. There was a stereotype about the wilderness that McCandless did not follow too well; although he was intelligent, he did not understand the ways of the wild (59). In school Chris never got a grade lower than an ¨A¨ and the one time he did was because someone put rules and regulation on the way he did things. He was intelligent and saw the world differently than others, but he never knew what to expect when he entered the wild. He was ignorant not to prepare himself for his journey; therefore he did not come back to the safety of reality. In chapter 15, Krakauer relates to Chris’s young attitude as a desire he believed to be rightfully his and mistaking passion with wisdom (155). …show more content…
In Chapter 17 Jon Krakauer explains the irony in McCandless's death, ¨Unlike McCandless, however, I have in my backpack a 1:63,360-scale topographic map (that is, a map on which one inch represents one mile). Exquisitely detailed, it indicates that half a mile downstream, in the throat of the canyon, is a gauging station that was built by the U.S. Geological Survey¨ (119). When Krakauer began his Journey to understand Chris he came across the river that Chris had not crossed and found on his topographic map that if McCandless would have crossed the river and walked down half a mile, he would have had a better chance of

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Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Character Analysis

Character Analysis Of Chris Mccandless In 'Into The Wild'

Chris Mccandless Character Analysis Into The Wild