Essays on Chris McCandless Page 2

Introduced by James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book epic of America, the American Dream is the goal to achieve your best life through hard work and perseverance. Many books have taken this phrase and formed a theme; The Great Gatsby and Into the Wild are two books who express this theme. The American Dream,…

Into The Wild, traditionally a book written by Jon Krakauer, was produced into a movie based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn. Fresh out of college, pressured to move on to law school by his parents, protagonist Christopher McCandless, later re-names himself Alexander Supertramp and ventures out on his own with few…

Justice For Chris The movie “Into The Wild” does justice to the book and to Mr. Chris J. McCandless himself. The movie portrays McCandless as a self-reliant, knowledgeable, and wild runaway who wanted to see the world as it is in its purest form. McCandless knew he didn’t want to be a pampered and treated…

He had very strong feelings against slavery. And very much opposed government from waging war. This is just one way of how he showed that he was all for the freedom Of people. He lived alone in a cabin he built on his good friend Ralph Wald Emerson land in Walden pond for 2 years….