Chris Mccandless Synthesis Essay

Life has its way of getting so crazy to the point where it makes people want to escape their life and head off into the wild. Chris McCandless was no stranger to this, in April of 1992, McCandless began what he called his “great Alaskan odyssey” (Krakauer 203). McCandless left everything he knew behind and wondered off into the wild. People ask what makes one want to leave everything behind and just live off the country. Looking at McCandless’s motives for heading off into the wild, it makes sense to at least try. McCandless told a man by the name Alex Stuckey “he didn’t want to see a single person, no airplanes, no sign of civilization. He wanted to prove to himself that he could make it own his own, without anybody else’s help.” (Krakauer 205). It was important to McCandless to at least try to make it without any help, and to him the only way he could prove that to himself
This wasn’t the first adventure McCandless had taken, a year prior to his Alaskan odyssey he subsisted for more the a month on the Gulf of California living off just five pounds of rice and any type of fish he had caught that day (205). Even tough people may say he was just stupid for his actions and it was the reason for him dying, McCandless did make it on his own for at least five months. Living strictly off the country isn’t normal in this day and age. We know that McCandless had struggles its noted in his journals that he only a couple days after really starting his adventure he fell through ice somewhere (207). Alaska is known for its harsh winters and months where there is no direct sunlight. Even through the struggles, McCandless just kept pushing through. There was so many opportunities that McCandless could have taken to give up and go back to his old life, but he was so determined to try to make it on his