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.