Mccandless Role Model

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As kids there is always a role model we have that we look up to to be like someday. We admire the little things about them; some stuff other people wouldn’t know that you do, and their accomplishments and big achievements they had in life to where you look and to them and say “I wanna be like that guy”. Chris McCandless went out into the wild somewhat knowing what he was doing by living off the land doing what he had to do to survive but was very unprepared. His good heart, drive and determination is what kept him alive and going for so long out there in the uninhabited. McCandless was somewhat out of his league and screwed up terribly by leaving to go out there but he'd done admirable things in his life to live by such as donating his money …show more content…
As smart as he was and as stubborn as he was, he wasn't selfish and didn't use any off the money for himself. Even when going out into the wild, he didn't have enough supplies with him. But instead, he gave his $24,000 of his life saving to charity to the OXFAM organization, an organization who helps people who are “in poverty and what’s consider injustice in this world” (Wikipedia.org), and as said on page 125 by John Krakauer, the author of the book. This showed that Chris wasn’t always the stubborn stuck up guy the everybody knew him by. He did something not for his own personal benefit and that’s one reason why he was looked up to and admired by so many people. Chris McCandless was, yes, a very stubborn guy who a lot of the time he only cared what he did and what he said and believed in. But throughout the story he had persevere from his stubbornness and changed his mind set towards the world. On page 68, Gail Borah and Wayne Westerberg talk about how interesting and intrinsic Chris, or Alex, was to them. Chris played the piano with such style and told stories that Gail could listen to all day, as so could Chris. This showed the good side of Chris and that he wasn't the all bad stubborn man that most people thought of him
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