Advantages And Disadvantages Of Life On The Road

Throughout the book, Krakauer documents the intoxicating life and death of Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, a young hitchhiker who embarked on an Alaskan Odyssey to explore himself and the wilderness. Like many before him, McCandless thought that he could give his life meaning by pursuing his “impractical fascination with the harsh side of nature” (Krakauer 85). At a young age, Chris lost his habitude for monotonous security and thus adopted an irrational and impulsive style of life. He believed that suppressing human relationships and deserting the materialistic world would strengthen his bond with nature. Christopher once wrote to his close friend that too many people were unwilling to change their troubling life and debatable circumstances because they were “conditioned to a life of security, and conformity, and conservatism.” Following up his conclusion he stated that this type of “secure future” brought peace to their mind, but in reality it was the most damaging thing that they ccould do to the adventurous spirit, being the very basic core of an individual’s passion (Krakauer 57). Christopher McCandless with his astounding spirit, the aspiration to succeed, and the longing to make things happen was determined to be free. He desired to live by his own moral code, without anyone putting shackles on his psyche. His plans went beyond what anyone could ever

Life of the road isn't meant for everyone. Of course everyone has a different mindset towards this topic but you will have to be in the correct mindset of this situation for this to fall on you. Weather people want to live life on the road or not it isn't suited for everyone. It maybe the sense that some people have a physical condition that will hold them back from going onto the road and doing this maybe the case. In many people's cases that they may love going out into the wilderness and exploring some may not be equipped with these sort of skills and may forgot to be prepared in a sense like Chris McCandless. In Chris’s case he just wanted to get out and explore, such like Jon Krakauer. Jon Krakauer talked about how toxic society was and how he just wanted to escape that. People often go out to explore the wild since they're already on the road but is Mr.McCandless point of view he just wanted to escape society and start fresh. People that don't admire the wild like chris does may change the view of life on the road.

First and foremost, Chris McCandless, better known to the world as Alexander Supertramp, showed his transcendental beliefs by the way he was living. One of the main ideas of the transcendentalist philosophy is the importance of the individual and that humans are forming one big brotherhood. Throughout this book, Jon Krakauer shows different aspects of Chris’ personality: the reader can easily see Alexander Supertramp as a generous person. In fact, Alex wanted to help people and wanted to emphasize the mankind’s goodness. During high school, Chris was already different than the other teenagers, his friend Walt admitted: “We spent the next few hours hanging out in creepy places, talking with pimps and hookers and lowlife. [...] He spent the ten bucks on a big bag of hamburgers, and we drove around handing them out to smelly guys sleeping on grates. It was the weirdest Friday

After reading Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, many wonder why Chris Mccandless felt the need of living off the land. While reading this book, it is hard for readers not to identify with Chris’s running away from his family, (specifically his father), and authority. Many readers can think back to their teenage/younger years, and can relate to Chris’s rebelliousness towards his parents. All these actions relate to many Romantic traits, but no trait relates to how much of a nonconformist, self reliant individual Chris was. Chris’s practice of Nonconformity had a negative effect on his life, and the people that surrounded him.

Teenagers and a lot of young adults have commit in a lot of adventures by going into the wilderness, in which they are seeking of high risk and freedom. Krakauer an American writer and mountaineer, who is the author of best-selling non-fiction books wrote this book about Christopher Johnson McCandless and he talked about how he believed that he died by a simple mistake that he made in the wilderness of Alaska. Jon Krakauer tried to communicate to a special audience which narrowed down some of his techniques that he used and still manages to keep McCandless as a special human which is a big accomplishment for him. In this essay I'm going to use the writing of Krakauer to show how he trying to make us believe that Chris was like any other person and that he died because of a simple mistake.

The author, aware of Chris’s relationship with his parents, thinks that Chris goes to Alaska to escape from the overbearing love of his family. Coming from a similar background with his father, Krakauer’s analysis of Chris’s motives accurately portrays how irrational Chris is when he tries to run away from his family. Chris has completely different ideas and morals than his parents and he feels the need to get away from them: “He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents’ lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love” (64). Chris finds his parents love overbearing and even goes as far to say it is tyrannical, which most people want to get away from at all costs, even going to Alaska. He wants freedom from the hypocrisy, lies and deceit that surrounds his family, making the road and Alaska his safe haven.

By providing more insight into his own background, Krakauer shows the root of his empathy for Chris, this empathy is clearly shown in chapter fifteen: “From elementary school through high school, my siblings and I hectored to excel in every class, to win medals in science fairs, to be princes of the prom, to win election to student government” (148). Krakauer outlines a description of his pressured homelife as a youth, mirroring McCandless and his rocky relationship with his parents. His reflection of McCandless shows that Krakauer understands Chris’s mindset on a deeper level than that of a sympathetic outdoorsman with a taste for the extreme, Krakauer can directly empathise with McCandless. Krakauer’s authority is also present when he details his lack of equipment, “I didn’t have a watch, but what seemed like in a very short time, I was on the distinctive final ice field” (153). Krakauer was guided by ambition and as a result left out pieces of equipment on his climb of self discovery.

The admiration of Chris McCandless provided by Jon Krakauer demonstrates that he supports that Chris’s choices were based off of free will. This is shown by how he supported Chris’s decision to exclude himself from society for true happiness. In describing the last picture Chris McCandless took of himself, Krakauer states, “He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God. It is evident that Krakauer believes Chris was at his happiest in this moment; therefore, Chris’s choice of free will for happiness is supported by Krakauer.

Notably, life on the road captivates many young adults, because it has a desirable notion of finding one’s happiness throughout the experiences they may encounter. Though life on the road provides a sensation of relief and airness by breaking away from society, it is not a permanent solution to those who want to obtain happiness by running away. In the instance of Chris McCandless, he demonstrates his unhappiness of being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and instead feels asphyxiated by both his family and the society that surrounds him. It is only until McCandless decided to break away, did he feel free from his claustrophobic environment. Krakauer narrates, “At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence” (pg.22). McCandless rejected what society and his parents had to offer, because it did not situate well with his sensitive and philanthropist-like mentality. Krakauer characterizes how McCandless could not stomach the fact that there were many problems plaguing society, and yet he managed to live a privileged life while others had to suffer. In McCandless’s society, where wealth and materialistic values were the keys to happiness‒McCandless could not conform. Thus, he broke away, by chasing his own happiness abiet in an unconventional way. However, contrary to how McCandless viewed himself, it

Krakauer said, “I believe we were similarly affected by the skewed relationships we had with our fathers....we had a similar intensity...a similar agitation of the soul” (155). Such similar men, seeking similar adventures, except there is one difference: Jon Krakauer survived his Alaskan adventure and Chris McCandless did not. Seeing himself in Chris, Krakauer wanted to solve the mystery of a death that could have been his own; it was the “dark mystery of mortality” (155) that fascinated Krakauer so

A famous transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau once said, “Rather than love, money, or fame, give me truth.” In Jon Krakauer’s biography Into the Wild about Chris McCandless and his journey to the west coast and up to Alaska, Krakauer investigates the different events that occurred throughout Chris’s life that caused him to reach the point of no return. He finds that Chris’s parents gave Chris many material commodities. With Chris’s significant interest in transcendentalist authors such as Henry David Thoreau and Idealism, he rejected this materialistic and conformist lifestyle forced upon him by his parents. Chris left his family and embarked on a journey out west and would eventually journey to the final destination of his entire life, Alaska. Chris McCandless was an admirable idealist, but lacked the experience necessary to survive in the wild.

At a young age Chris McCandless started growing distant from his family. After Chris graduated from high school, he fled from home to travel and ended up in the Alaskan wilderness. Despite the lack of supplies and the dangers of Alaska, Chris wanted the sensation of transcendentalism. Throughout the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless’ character grew a exponential philosophy that emphasizes the intuitive and spiritual thoughts that rise above the empirical.

Jon Krakauer 's novel “Into the wild”, Is a story about a young man named Christopher McCandless or “Alex Supertramp” who went on a self discovering odyssey in which he had traveled around the U.S. The story surrounds Chris and his travels and what he had done at the time, leading to his death in August 1992. Thus the story takes a direction in the viewpoints of the people Alex has come across through in his travels. It speaks about what he had done at the time of his journey before he had gone to Alaska and was last heard of. The book captures a sort of sympathetic essence to it. It also leaves so many questions unanswered towards Alex story. Furthermore, in my research project I will be discussing, rather asking the really question “Why did Chris McCandless head towards Alaska?”I will be discussing the leading towards his departure, his relationship with his family and other people who had gone thru the same thing as Alex. With this I will try to come up with the answer that makes sense. In the following essay, I will put in my thoughts on how and why Chris did what he did, if it was so the type of self-discovery journey he had to go thru, or rather the question, what drove him to the self-discovering journey in the first place?

Regardless how hard we try to escape the difficulties of life, life is never easy. For instance, when a parent’s expectation becomes too much for their child to handle, their child will be conflicted with these expectations and will feel like a disappointment. In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, a young man named Chris McCandless escapes society and his family’s problems by deciding to live life on the road. McCandless came from a well-off family and had a natural talent for everything he did, but he had a bad relationship with his father due to his father being unfaithful to his mother. McCandless’s relationship with his father was the problem that drove him to live life on the road. To McCandless and Krakauer life on the road meant going into the wild, therefore life on the road can be defined as going into the wild. Although life on the road allows people to find themselves, it is nothing more than an avoidance of life’s problems.

First and foremost, Chris McCandless, better known to the world as Alexander Supertramp, showed his transcendental beliefs by the way he was living. One of the main ideas of the transcendentalist philosophy is the importance of the individual and that humans form one vast brotherhood. Throughout this book, Jon Krakauer shows different aspects of Chris’ personality and through that the reader can easily see Alexander Supertramp as a generous person. In fact, Alex wanted to help people and wanted to emphasize mankind’s goodness. During high school, Chris has already been different than the other teenagers; his friend Walt evoked, “We spent the next few hours hanging out in creepy places, talking with pimps and hookers and lowlife [...]. He spent the ten bucks