... way? McCandless had nothing. Nothing at all, nothing to support himself in any way whatsoever. In the beginning of this book, there is an author's note, basically telling everyone the story plot and what will, in the end, happen to this young man on his way to "living off the wild." It tells his real name, Christopher Johnson McCandless, also, it tells that he had given ... $25,000 in saving to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Chris McCandless came from what most people would like to call a "w...

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In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, he explains the long journey of a young adult named Chris McCandless. McCandless was a man who felt the need to live an unconventional and joyful life. Learning from philosophers like Jack London and Henry David Thoreau, he developed his ideas about living his life to a joyful extension. His perception of the meaning of life and ideas about how to find true ... to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters" (7). Someone who didn't understand why McCandless made the choices he did would easily call him foolish and crazy. It is easy to co...

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... : to live completely off the land and test himself in ways, "that mattered," and as Krakauer's friend Roman points out, "very few, if any, of the people who call McCandless incompetent have ever done it either." Through his journalistic approach in his long form feature piece, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer is able to piece together the chilling story of Chris McCandless and give ... a better understanding of this self-made vagabond through extensive research and Krakauer's own personal connection ... ...

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... make informed, individual choices, allows people to make more educated decisions for themselves. Wuthnow calls this "reflective morality" (695). Chris McCandless attempted to call upon reflective morality to find his own spirituality. McCandless" declaration of independence read as follows: Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An atheist voyager whose home is ... ." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the sp...

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