Argumentative Essay On Chris Mccandless

How do you believe life should be lived? What inspires your way of living? What’s your philosophy of life? Some of you might think we shouldn’t live our lives satisfying others or what others think. Others believe every now and then we should look into our inner self so we can live a nice peaceful life. They are some who think that we should live life, doing good for our world. These people are all motivated with their philosophy of life we all have someone we look up to. Chris McCandless had a very distinct way of looking at life and the way he believed we should live life. His influences were Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Jack London. Jack London was a man who as an adolescent worked hard labor. Later in his life he became a writer.

Darwin has called “natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life,” Jack London who really appreciated nature. It was said that, “ Death is a common theme in London’s work,” Arthur Calder-Marshall (1966: 17) states that London “ was always very much in love with death,” and his descriptions make it obvious that he spent a great deal of time thinking about the subtleties and progressions of various ways of dying” (Lundburg, 2016). He contributed his way of seeing life in his books and he really puts his inspiration in The Call of the

Henry David Thoreau was a poet, very well known for his philosophical beliefs that he put into his writing and his views on Naturalism. “He sought simplicity in his own life and tried to live without adhering to material goods and societal norms.” (Connorly, 2012) Henry embraced spirituality; meaning embraced and believed pure life. He also believed that religion and politics were two-aspects that ruin the purity of life. Independency was big for him; he was a man who followed his heart without expecting or wanting approval of anyone. He did not want to live life like others, which is only focusing on work, family money, everyday things we are all used to doing he didn’t want to conform to that. He would call that same daily routine the “Man Trap”. He worked the very minimum. “In 1885, Thoreau built a small him for himself on Walden Pond, a property owned by Emerson he spent more than 2 years there. Seeking a simple type of life, Thoreau the standard routine of the times.” He did this to get away from his everyday life because he did not want to conform. But as he himself once said “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living so