Examples Of Chris Mccandless Flaws In Into The Wild

I think he just wanted to pursue life in a different way. Chris was not seeing life the way anyone else was so he decided to brush off into the wild and be free on his own. Though he did not survive he was still a very bright, arrogant human being. Shaun Callarman states, “He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness.” Chris knew going into the wild that he did not have much survival skills but that did not stop him from doing what he wanted to do because he did not care about society and was just completely over everything which was why he made the move to the wilderness. This clearly shows us that Chris did not have much common sense. If he had better survival skills and common sense he probably would have known not to eat that poisonous berry. It was his dream to be in the wild and he decided to pursue it. I respect his decisions and i personally believe it was a good decision other than the fact of him dying. He made the infinitive decision to do all of this so why stop

In nature, Chris focused only on himself and survival, rather than his troubles at home, the needs of others, or the standards of society. In a way, he was forced to go into the outdoors because of these poor relationships and inner conflicts within himself. Although Chris sought nature to help him, it destroyed him. He never returned from Alaska to put into practice what he had finally learned about himself and his need for others. Nature and his plan had worked against him, since, he eventually died of starvation.

There are quite a few debates on how McCandless was responsible for his own death. I think the main one has to be that he simply did not know what he was getting himself into and that he had a specific kind of advantaged pride that led him to accept as true that he could “study up” on palatable plants and by dressing game, in order to survive in the wild. In the first chapter, the author interviews Jim Gallien, the gentleman who gave McCandless a ride to the trail that marked the beginning of his trip. Gallien noticed that Chris brought only a bag of rice for his food, and his gun was too small to hunt big game such as elk and moose. Even though he didn’t have a compass, or even a good map, McCandless could not be persuaded out of his adventure.

Chris is naive because he does not know what he is doing.” Alaskan hunters know that the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into thin strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. But since McCandless, in his naivete, relied on advice of hunters he’d consulted in South Dakota, who advised him to smoke his meat, not any easy task under the circumstances”(Krakauer 114). This quote connects to the thesis because it shows Chris did not know what he was doing, and it made it even more unlikely that he would survive.

What lead to Chris 's death was his overconfidence and arrogance. He was incredibly unprepared for his journey to Alaska. All he

The book about Chris McCandless’s journey into the Alaskan bush, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, received a lot of criticism about Chris being foolish for being unprepared. From the articles that I have read, most of the sources do believe that he was poorly prepared for his journey. But there are a few people who believe he was prepared mentally, and an even smaller amount believe he was fully prepared. I believe that Chris only knew what he was doing mentally. He did not have the correct tools or the developed skills to survive, for an extended period of time in the wild. But, he did know what he was about to get himself into. He planned out the trip and knew exactly what his risk factors were. Chris McCandless was either prepared

Although nature can’t be rationally blamed (doesn’t have a brain to make intentional decisions) for the death of Chris Mccandless, it can be concluded that nature was somewhat at fault. Nature provides unexpected events that can either lead toward the tragedy, or benefit of others. Unfortunately, nature wasn’t too kind to Mccandless. This can be apparent when he tried to come back to society, but was stopped by a deadly river, whose rapids can sweep a full grown man toward rocks or potentially drown. Nature “forced” him to turn back and live off the land longer. This choice eventually led him to experience costly misfortunes that conclusively ended his life. Nature was the last factor, besides Mccandless himself, to deal a number on Chris. It became apparent that Chris wanted to conclude his journey when it was written on a birch tree that one of Chris’ plans were to “organize his pack” (Krakauer 169). He also foreshadows he would come back in a letter telling Ronald Franz, “But providing I get through this Alaskan ordeal in one piece, you will be hearing from me again in the future” (Krakauer 56) However, his tracks made a 360 degree turn when he saw the river and the rain cascading on him, which were noted in his journal. He noted that it “looked impossible” to cross, and this disaster caused him to feel “lonely, and scared” (Krakauer 170). There was nothing he could do; he was a poor swimmer,

Many people have formed strong opinions about the young Chris McCandless, from the story Into the Wild, who ventured into the Alaskan wilderness where he eventually starved to death there. These opinions vary in ideas, but one Shaun Callarman has claimed Chris to be “just plain crazy.” Despite what Shaun Callarman says, Chris was not crazy, but he was smart and intelligent or else he would not have lasted 113 days in the wild of Alaska. Mr. Callarman does have some arguments which are able to support his claim, but in the end I would definitely disagree with his analysis.

Chris McCandless was at fault for his own death because he was unskilled and unprepared, he didn’t take any advice from anyone rejected society, and he traveled alone. To start off with, McCandless went into Alaska unprepared and unskilled. On page 5 in Krakauer’s Into the Wild, McCandless had only brought 10 pounds of rice to eat the whole time he was there. McCandless burned all his money, so he didn’t have any to spend in case he needed supplies.

In August 1992 the decomposing body of Chris McCandless was uncovered by a moose hunter, but since the body was unearthed there has been some mystery to it, who was he, why did he go into the Alaskan wild, was he an incompetent fool, or was he just unfortunate? Jon Krakauer's book Into The Wild helps to show who Chris McCandless really was and why he was not just some suicidal fool, but that he was a driven idealist who just wanted to test his own fortitude and made a mistake any well-experienced hunter can make that would cost him his life. I agree with Jon that Chris is not foolish and would have survived his Alaskan adventure, if not for a simple mistake and throughout the story you see just that as Jon follows Chris’s footsteps, where he went, who he talked to, to prove that Christopher J McCandless was not just some idiot kid.

Along with making the mistake of neglecting his family, Chris was very overconfident as well. Without doing his research about Alaska and its environment, he was convinced he would be able to survive in the wild. According to Jim Gallien, the man who transported Chris from Fairbanks to the Stampede Trail, McCandless’s equipment “seemed exceedingly minimal for the harsh conditions of the interior, which in April lay buried under the winter snowpack” (Krakauer 5). A ten-pound bag of rice, poor leather hiking boots, a .22 caliber rifle, and a shabby state map were Chris’s only possessions. Gallien did his best to convince Chris to not go into the wild, especially during that time, but nothing changed Chris’s mind. Keeping this in mind, Krakauer

Into the Wild In Jon Krakauer’s book, “ Into the Wild” demonstrates a young man who donated all of his savings to charity to help feed the poor and abandons both his family and his car to live out in the wilderness. Some people may have believed that Chris McCandless went into the wild to escape a toxic relationship with his parents, I agree that he did not have a nice family. Christopher McCandless was tormented by family problems because he grew up with an abusive father and a mother who gave him a hard life. Not only is he believed to have suffered from an abusive family, Chris McCandless was also pronounced mentally ill.

Imagine getting lost in the wilderness with only enough food to survive for a few days and not being able to get help from anyone and no one knows where you are at. Many of us would be terribly frightened and hopeless. We wouldn’t know what to do or where to go and death would be staring into our eyes. Essentially this scenario can be compared to Chris McCandless’s story. Chris wanted to proved to himself that he could live off the land and survive with his own bear hands. He got himself “lost” in the Alaskan wilderness from all civilization and ended up starving to death. Chris McCandless was a reckless idiot who perished out of arrogance and stupidity because he went into the wild ill-prepared and did not tell his family were he was going.

Chris McCandless was a very smart young man. He went to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He tells his parents that he is going to spend the summer traveling in his yellow Datsun. Chris Death was a likely outcome, he was ill prepared for what Alaska had in store for him. Chris McCandless is arrogant and naïve which contributes to his death because on his journey many people gave him advice and he did not take it, taking Henry David Thoreau book too seriously, and finally the lack of resources Chris had on this journey.

Christopher Johnson McCandless walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness with very little equipment and food after traveling to various parts of North America during the course of two years. Regardless of living on his own with not many things for a couple of years, Chris died alone in a bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. Author Jon Krakauer wrote a 9,000 word article titled “Death of an Innocent” for the 1993 issue of the magazine Outside. Into the Wild is simply an extension of that article which explains what provoked Chris into living such a life, who he was, and how he died. The author proves to the reader that Chris was an intelligent man by explaining his research about edible plants and his ambition which builds up Chris’s