December 9, 2016
Period: 2
ERWC
Mr. Taylor
Into the Wild Essay
Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer, is about a young man from a rich family who hitchhiked to Alaska and walked all the way into the wilderness. Chris McCandless shows many personality traits. Chris is very intelligent in school, he is very strong willed, he is rebellious in his own ways, he doesn't like it when someone gives him advice or tells him what to do, and he is self involved, he is also very idealistic. He gets all these personality traits from his dad. He wanted to leave society and just be himself. Yet other things he does separates him from others around him. His unique attitude makes him who he is and what he has become.
Chris McCandless gets his intelligence …show more content…
“Hell no…how I feel myself is none of the government’s business. Fuck their stupid rules” (Krakauer 6). Despite knowing the rules of the government McCandless opposes this. He does not feel the rules apply to him and he continues to do only what he feels. His mind has made his own rule book by which he lives his life. Not only did Chris like to do things in his own way, but also he resisted any sort of instruction he was given by others. “Even if you try to coach him, or to polish his skill to bring out that final 10 percent, he brought up that wall” (Krakauer 111). Even though someone might be telling him, to improve his skill or talent he resisted instruction of any kind. Such as when Walt tries to teach him racquetball he listens to the advice but he doesn't follow it because of his rebellious …show more content…
He doesn’t care about what other people think, just as long as he achieves what he is after. For example he left his parents house to go live in the Alaskan wilderness. “McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme. He has a need to test himself in ways, as he was fond of saying, “that mattered”. He possessed grand – some would say grandiose – spiritual ambitions” (Krakauer 182). Chris believes the only way his life would be meaningful is if he did exactly what he is after. His strong willed nature is also shown when Chris leaves without telling anyone about his plans. He believes that he doesn’t need to tell anyone because he “will not run into anything that he can’t deal with” ( Krakauer 6). McCandless has such a strong will that he doesn't really think about the negative aspects of