A romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects the established norms, wants happiness within themselves and has rejected society. To reject the established norms, means to to reject the usual standards of life established by the people around you. Chris rejects the established norms by going to live alone in the woods without any money, food, clothes, or any idea where he is going to stay. Chris finds pleasure in nature, he was raised by parents who loved to go camping and Chris enjoyed camping to. Christopher Johnson McCandless has a lot of flaws and may be seen as a foolish idiot but he wasn’t he was a romantic hero, because he rejected the established norms, he had a free spirit, he chose the road less traveled, he was also very personable. he rejected society and he wants happiness.
Chris McCandless is seen as a romantic hero because he rejected the established norms by he had given $25000 to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. In the book Into The Wild, Krakauer shows the boy as a hero seeking "opportunity…show more content… Chris says, “two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure….”(Krakauer 163). This shows how McCandless feels about his journey so far, right after he walks into the wilderness. This also shows how he doesn’t have any of the things that he used to have in his old life. He is clearly proud of himself, and proud of what he has accomplished, and deeply excited for the Alaskan “greatest
