Chris McCandless is NOT a Hero

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Chris McCandless has left a legacy and a lesson after dying on his excursion into the brutal Alaskan wilderness. Some people claim that he is a hero and that he left a good message for spirits who crave freedom and peace with nature. But others believe that he is no hero at all; but in fact, a dumb young kid with no sense of gratitude and a plan for failure. I think that Chris not only failed to execute any heroic actions at all, but he had anti heroic qualities and beliefs. McCandless is not a hero because ran away from and let down friends and family to travel blindly into danger with no plan or preparation whatsoever. Chris is not a hero because he went into his journey unprepared, uneducated about the area, and without any help. In Kleinfield’s “McCandless: Hero or Dumb Jerk” article, Kleinfield tells us what the native Alaskans say about about McCandless. “You'd have to be a complete idiot, they say, to die of starvation in summer 20 miles off the Parks Highway.” The Alaskans who say this about Chris are natives to the area and know everything there is to know about it. They...

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