Character Development In Into The Wild

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He gets stuck between a true life drama. He was raised in a wealthy family in Virginia. From childhood, Chris and his sister Carine have witnessed many fights between their father and mother. His parents wanted him to enjoy a wealthy life but a family secret within them destroys any relationship with Chris in the future. He goes in a cross-country journey, abandoning everything he was held responsible to, to get as far away as possible from his parents. Having made a clean break from his past life, he changes his name to ‘Alexander Supertramp’. Chris wanted to forget everything about his past life, so he chose to move on with a different identity. His previous days psychologically influence him because he thinks that humans are what cause and …show more content…
The environment does not concern Chris, but rather gives him delusions of isolation from humans and portrays the freedom of being on his own. Sean Penn’s adapted film Into the Wild utilizes character development to portray the idea that an individual’s attempt to secure self-fulfillment is by change in perspective from abstraction to reality; to what one should realize the importance of human relationship to secure …show more content…
Chris leaves behind his sister Carine, which he holds the burden to protect because she has been through the same experience he has. Before departure, he did not understand the value when it comes to family, but rather thinks he will be happier when is away from them: “You don't need human relationships to be happy; God has placed it all around us.” He hits the road to find his own aspiration in life and meets different people, which unlike his parents shared different personalities and ideals in life. Chris, however, does not recognize and the events back home blinds him. Chris’s mother was abused by his father, which after high school he finds out was his step-father. This mentally impacts Chris to lose truth to the relationship between him and his parents; he feels betrayed and left out. He runs away, commenting: “Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” Chris hopes to find “truth” on the outside world and claims to find strength through his experiences: “I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me
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