Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Character Analysis

Chris McCandless Chris McCandless was a young man from California who loved to be outdoors and was always very athletic. He always had the desire and ambition to do things on his own. However this was a positive and negative side to his personality because it would cost him his life by wanting to live this way. In school Chris was always a very smart student who had good grades and could have gone to college if he chose to. His parents wanted him to attend college but he felt it wasn’t for him so instead he chose to travel and hitchhike. This caused tension between the McCandless’s and adding gas to the fire, Chris’s father had an affair which angered him even more. In early adulthood when Christopher McCandless wanted to do something he did it. He didn’t let nobody change his mind or tell him he couldn’t do
After he came up dead and his story popped up in the newspaper many people gave their opinion on his decisions. One of the harshest of them said, “amounts of disrespect to the land… just another case of underprepared, over confident men bumbling around out there and screwing up because they lacked the requisite humility” (51). Most of these came from Alaskans who know how harsh the land could be but John Krakauer the author of the book Into The Wild believed otherwise. McCandless wasn’t crazy for what he did, he was just unfamiliar with the area but if he was crazy he wouldn’t have lasted in the wilderness as long as he did. (59)
In my opinion Chris McCandless achieved his goal of living off the land in Alaska. Although many people thought he was arrogant of going so unprepared. I thought he was at least courageous enough and had more heart than most of us would have had. Many people today are afraid of going after what they want and people can learn from what he did. It taught me to go after what makes you happy no matter how difficult it may