How Did Chris Mccandless Change Society

Chris McCandless, as described in John Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild,” endured many grueling tasks and hardships throughout his odyssey in the wild, but ultimately died of starvation and exposure from the elements. What would have happened if Chris survived and came back to society? If Chris changed his thought’s on how society worked, he might still be here with us today,but it would be difficult to imagine him changing his mind. During his time in the wild, Chris became inspired or enlightened by being alone. If he came back to society, he would be disappointed just like he was before. Quoting from Chris’s journal, Krakauer writes that “[t]o get an ID and a job feels extremely uncomfortable in society now [to chris] and must return to the road

He could not come back into society without sacrificing his freedom, and would have to get used to all the rules that he ignored while outside in the wild. He would regret coming back into society and would undoubtedly want go back to the freedom he was living. In a poetic note he left found inside the bus, “[t]wo years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road… 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 spiritual pilgrimage… No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild,” (122) In these verses, Chris shows that his happiness is in the freedom of the wild. He talks about all the worldly possessions that he has given up for what he believes is true happiness. It would be extremely hard, if not impossible, for him to get fully use to society life again, because as he describes in some parts in the book and in the quote above, nothing is comparable to the ultimate freedom that is found in the