Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Character Analysis

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a young man named Chris McCandless who left his old life behind to hitchhike across America. He burned the money in his pockets and abandoned his car in the desert. Krakauer tells the story of Chris’s journey to Alaska where he was found dead in an abandoned bus, and much more. Chris McCandless’s story is one of courage and passion; however, it also gives the impression that he was irresponsible and ungrateful. He had many character traits that one would both admire and detest.

Throughout some parts of the book, Chris handled things poorly. He was stubborn, ungrateful and stupid. An example of this is how he acted during the situation with his parents when Krakauer reveals Mr. McCandless’s secret love affair. Despite the fact that his
He loved nature and was determined to complete his journey no matter what obstacles came along. He had a gift, which was the ability to find beauty in everything he saw out west. At a very young age, world hunger, and other huge problems, were on his list of things to put an end too. He wasn’t like most young people, consumed with a life of partying and drugs. Instead he thought about all the evil and hatred in the world, and imagined himself, “…running against the forces of darkness…” (Krakauer 112). One of his friends from high school said, “You aren’t supposed to think about heavy-duty stuff in high school. But I did, and he did, too…” (Krakauer 113). The novel explains “McCandless took life’s inequalities to heart. During his senior year at Woodson, he became obsessed with racial oppression in South Africa” (Krakauer 113). On weekends he would buy meals for prostitutes and homeless people. Before he embarked on his journey, he donated every penny of his twenty-four thousand dollars to charity. Whether it was sports or his grade in a class, he always did exceptionally well. He had a lot of determination and drive in