Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Analysis

When Shaun Callarman stated,”I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no business going into Alaska with his Romantic silliness. He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don’t admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy.” Though Shaun brought out a good point about how bright and ignorant Chris is and how he made mistakes due to arrogance, but I don’t agree with what he said about him being just plain crazy. Is being ignorant and arrogant, mean that a person is crazy? Personally, what made Chris do what he did was because of a purpose which was to escape his family problems. He was emotionally unstable and what he did was a defense mechanism to solve …show more content…
Violence that we were forced to witness.” (Into the Wild film). This shows that both Chris and Carine had a very unpleasant household that they lived in. Another example, is when she mentioned,”I remember the first family meeting to let us in on their plans for getting divorce. They wanted us to choose which of them we’d live with. We cried our eyes out.”(Into the Wild film). It greatly affected them both emotionally even to the point that they got so upset with their parents and shut off. When they both said,”Go ahead.Get the divorce.”(Into the Wild …show more content…
When Carine said,” My parents understood that a fine crystal glass had to be cared for it may be shattered. But when it came to my brother,they did not seem to know or care that their course of secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them.”(Into the Wild film). If only they paid more attention to the feelings of their children and realized the course of action they were taking Chris would haven’t done what he did. His parents were one of the reasons why he wanted to go away and live the life he wanted. As Carine said,”That he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and how he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents and material excess, the things that cut Chris off from the truth of his existence.”(Into the Wild film). This refers to Chris’s point of view of his life with his parents and society making it seem like he really wanted to cut off his relationship with them and everyone that reminded him of his life that he knew was a

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Analysis Of Into The Wild Chris Mccandless