Chris McCandless fails to rely on his own resources and self while he journeys to the West coast and loses his own identity, too. When Chris arrives in California, he finds a friendly …show more content…
By changing his name and starts to conform to society by being a nomad, Chris loses his own true identity. Chris also ignores to use his own resources and uses other people to help him along his great Alaskan adventure. Chris is successful in ignoring modern technology and pleasures to see the beauty of nature in a different viewpoint, and he focuses on the vital things of life instead. Living in a society where being a conformist is as easy as looking up something on the