Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild

“The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also...To take the trail and not look back. Whether on foot, on showshoes or by sled, into the summer hills and their late freezing shadows-a high blaze, a runner track in the snow would show where I had gone. Let the rest of mankind fine me if it could”(John Haines, The stars, The snow The Fire In Into The Wild 127). In the novel, Into The Wild,by Jon Krakauer, challenges the slander the protagonist faces. In the book, the protagonist is Chris Mccandless, otherwise known as Alex Supertramp. He was a hero an a noble traveler escaping the fate his parents set out for him; making Mccandless follow his dreams and aspirations for going all around the world and living
Mccandless was an exceedingly advanced student even in his middle school years even so”In the third grade, after receiving a high score on a standardized achievement test, Chris was placed in an accelerated program for gifted students...He wasn't happy about it billie said because it meant he had to do extra Homework so he spent a week trying to get himself out of the program”(pg 107). Although Chris had a remarkable gift with his studies he was ignorant and was able to dispose of anything that he no longer care for or was uninterested like the accelerated program he was put in. Although he was able to be put into accelerated courses and programs he is undoubtedly immature for someone who has their life planned out and his parents being intelligent it makes him immature and ignorant to brush aside his parents hard work and
Nick Jans a schoolteacher and alaskan hunter, said that “McCandless was hardly unique; there's quite a few of these guys hanging around state, so much alike that they are almost a collective cliché. The only difference is that McCandless ended up dead,with the story of his dumbassedness splashed across the media...McCandless is, finally, just a 20th-century burlesque of london's protagonist, who freezes because he ignores advice and commits big time hubris”(pg 71-72). Chris is a fool knowingly going out to the most unforgiving,coldest, and most relentless places in the world. He makes the most simplest but most damaging mistakes, becoming just like the predecessors before him like london, like london's protagonist he mirrored the same image bestowed on the book and like a fly was hooked and couldn't escape,chris sought to copy that image and make it his own. Chris went to the depths of the most unforgiving isolated remote places and was able to turn a blind eye and be an arrogant person who thinks he can take the most brutal environment without any preparation, or knowledge of the ferocity the wild has,he greatly underestimated the wild thinking he can go in and out without anything but the bag on his back and luck by his side and forgetting the most important things like a compass or map or his common