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Chris Mccandless Ideals
What does it mean to have good ideals? What makes certain ideals better than others? Seeing as we all have them, and being that most have different ideals than others, what makes certain ideals considered better than others. In this essay i will be discussing my ideals and how they compare to the man by the name of Chris McCandless. I will be comparing to see if i share any of the same ideals with the young man. By the end of this i will hope to have found out some new things about myself. And maybe whoever is reading this may find out new things about them.

As far as ideals go, i would say that i take pride in the fact that i am, for the most part, pretty self reliant. I also try not to be the most serious person, unless a certain thing may come up where i need to be. I also try my best to be kind. In a world where people are always at war, it is nice to have some sort of kindness to push away the evil of it all. I would also say that i don't like to have to rely on other people. It is a real bother to have to have other people for everything you do. And if i were to compare anything of my own self to McCandless, i would say it is my ability to take care of myself.

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I am not on to just leave my family, and i find it wrong that he did. I also don't have that big of a fascination with the wild, so i don't think i would try to leave off on some big adventure. I believe in some ways he was to much into his own ideals to come back into the reality of things. It wasn't until the end that he realized his own mistakes, and it costed him the ultimate price. All of this being said, i do respect what he did because he did what most people wouldn't do, he didn't fear being called crazy nor did he fear death, and in the end, he didn't even regret his own decision. So i would say he got mostly what he wanted until the end. And in the end, that's all one can as

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