Chris Mccandlessness In Into The Wild

In the book Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, a man named Chris McCandless and his adventures are followed as he travels the states, parts of Mexico then eventually a fatal trip to Alaska. As McCandless grew up, he didn't always have the best relationship with his parents, so when he finished college, he vowed to himself that he’d live on the road and forget his old life and never having to depend on anyone again. McCandless believed that the mainstream lifestyle was too constricting and didn’t allow him to be his own person so he decided to rid himself of the burden of depending on people by traveling with only what he could carry and living on the land. Some people might say McCandless was a reckless and childish person that just to get back at his parents left and didn’t even give them the satisfaction of telling them when, where or even why.Though he did resent his parents and their relationship was one of much strain his trip was not out of sheer hatred for them. McCandless often showed signs of his urn to be independent. On page 52 in the book Into the Wild a man named Ronald Franz that McCandless had
Because McCandless did lots of reading he seemed to take after many of the writers in the books he loved to read. One of theseOne of these writers was Emerson, Emerson was a man that loved the outdoors and with this McCandless could relate almost automatically. In Emerson’s poem Excerpt from Nature he writes “ In the woods, we return to reason and faith” this is one of Emerson’s philosophies that McCandless adopted as his own. McCandless encapsulated that idea perfectly because he became relaxed when in nature’s beauties and away have the havoc of society. McCandless also preached to the many friends he met on his tour that even they should change their lifestyle and take after his more nomadic approach to