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The Morrible Reality: Christopher Mccandless: The Terrible Reality
Christopher McCandless The terrible reality

Many people experience life like an ongoing routine for example you get up, shower, get dressed, eat ,go to work,come home and do other activities throughout your day.Some people find that their life is just fine the way it is because they don’t mind it, while others get tired of their lives being the same and want to do something different and that is what Christopher McCandless did.
Christopher McCandless was an adventurous person who was never fearful and loved going outdoors he was also really stubborn mostly because he did not like being bossed around. The reason he loved going outdoors or camping was because it helped him cope with his parents mostly because his parents fought a lot especially
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Chris spent his whole life going to a great school and graduating but for what cause he just left and the money he saved which was $25,000 which “he donated the balance of his bank account (to charity), loaded up his car, and vanished from (his family's) lives."Christopher was somewhat of a caring person as we see that he donated all that money to the charity but at the same time it was quite ignorant of him because he could have just made that check into money and left it to his parents and the he could have left into the wild.Possibly the reason he did not do that was probably because he did not really care about them that much during that …show more content…
Secondly, Christopher McCandless has gone into the wild because as I said he was tired of society, he only a few supplies like a rifle, clothes, and an edible berry guide and wanted to live a simple life similarly to leopard man”man covered in leopard prints that lived alone for a long time”.Then he was on a mission to get to Alaska and it took him months to get their because he had to hitchhike and ended up finding a bus that had been abandoned and that was were he made shelter he therefore had to kill to survive.He had brought a rifle to hunt but this was mostly hard because he could either not find animals or had a hard time killing them.This is just some of the dangerous and shallow things he had coming because he choose to go into the wild just because of a few rules and” then found by moose hunter McCandless’s decomposed body in a sleeping bag inside the bus, where he had starved to

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