He only wanted to do want he wanted, with his family never in mind. They saw a bright future for him, yet he refused. Leaving only a note behind and never any postcards, McCandless left his family questioning if they’d ever see him again, which he answered by his death. Jon Krakauer provided a quote from Chris’s friend Westerberg, whom he’d met along his trek. “Not speaking to your family for all that time, treating them like dirt” Krakauer quotes Westerberg on page 64 of Into the Wild. The quote shows how even the people Chris came to know thought he was foolish and quite selfish for leaving his parents in the unknown and taking their love for granted. A family is a love that can never be