the readers can clearly see from this quote that Mccandless is not a man of stability, he is not willing to settle down, have a family, get a job, and live a joyful yet mundane life. As Mccandless wrote: “the very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure” in Mccandless’s perspective, the definition of success in a man’s life is the encounters of new experiences. “There is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon” is his viewpoint of life philosophy. Some might consider this foolish, instead of making something of his life, Mccandless chose to squander his valuable youth, and getting himself killed in the midst of his adventure. However, one cannot walk past without acknowledging his heroic deeds, lived on his own for more than 2 years. lived on the streets. Sometimes survived on gathered berries and wild plants, the sufferings he could possibly went through is unimaginable, and yet, he kept going. He could have settled down in anytime, end this nonsense and live a perfectly good life off of his college education, but he chose to uphold his principles, “each day to have a new and different sun”. There are many men who forsook what he uphold for his entire life under harsh and difficult circumstances, yet Chris Mccandless upheld it, however foolish some might consider his principle of life could be, he upheld it, through great distress and miseries, and that is an act of a