Life Changing Experience

"I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!" (Krakauer 199)

Topic: Inspiration or fool / travel advice

In the end on the novel, McCandless went to Alaska looking for answers and for something he needed to prove to everyone he left that he didn't need anything or anyone. At the very end, he was wrong. He realizes that happiness and life itself is better when you can share it with someone. McCandless realizes this when he's about to die which is so heartbreaking to see him go through all of the pain and suffering, starvation. He ate a poisonous fruit by mistake and that's when it all started to begin. He had no food left, so he was gathering berries and wild potato. He didn't fool so good after eating them, so he read his food book and sees that what he just ate is a dangerous thing. McCandless is in danger of starving to death. He was confused the wild potato with the similar looking wild sweet pea which is toxic. As he ate the wild sweet pea he got very sick and he was in the weakest conditions. McCandless Died from eating that toxin wild sweet pea, and starvation.

Surround Yourself With Beauty

"You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. My main point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life (Krakauer 57).

Topic: Traveling and human relationships 

Chris McCandless grew up in a wealthy family that had a lot of negativity. Chris saw that his parents were being affected by their marriage and their happiness and did not want to be a part of the family anymore. This led Chris to leave his family and to travel and never look back to his past. He wanted to be closer to god and with nature and live free. He does not want to feel the need for other peoples'  joy, he wanted to explore and be grater person by living the choice he chose. Chris got so close to as many people as he could but he never stayed for a long amount of time, he wanted to keep going, didn't want to stop. He never knew where he was going but he ended up in many places and love to see new things. He has found happiness and a better lifestyle by traveling and exploring how to live alone, it is very hard to do but I guess its worth the risks to him. He feels like everyone should know how to live the way he did and wrote journals on what he was doing in a 100 days surviving in the wilderness.

Memories Are Made From Traveling

"The author describes a man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch and map and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the 'wilderness' west of Healy" (Krakauer 71). 

Topic: Inspiration or Fool?

          What could a kid ask for in life when you have everything you need? Chris is someone who believes that life is best lived alone, in nature. He is a young man from the east coast family who hitchhiked and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Some people think that Chris is a fool for doing things that he did because he had everything. Chris had a loving family who cared for him, and he had money which he burned while traveling through Alaska. His dad was a rich and successful man who worked with the NASA. His parents would get him anything and everything he wanted. When he got to alaska he changed his name, gave a balance of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all his money. He wanted to travel to alaska to invent a new life for himself, and experience new things. As he leaves for alaska his family had no idea where he was or what he was doing. His family finally found out where he was when his remains turned up in alaska.