Why Did Chris Mccandless Leave

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Living in the wild is peaceful, quiet, and has so many amazing views. That leaves the question of why people would want to leave? Living in the wild isn't an easy thing to do. Many challenges come up like food, safe places to rest, interest, and other responsibilities could keep you from staying. All of those things were factors in why a case like Chris McCandless tried to leave his home in the wild. Chris McCandless was a well off man out of college who tried to live his life on the road. He was found dead in the Alaskan wild in 1992. It shows that he died slowly and that raises the question of why didn’t he leave, and reasons why he would want to leave such great scenery. People, for the most part, have goals in life. When people go camping …show more content…

In Krakauer's book, it talks about how Chris doesn’t always have enough to eat. He struggled to find game to eat. Some game he did come across was too big to kill as he only had a .22 rifle with him which was to small to kill the large animals of Alaska. Chris did bring a book of natural plants to eat, but that didn't help when he first got there due to the frozen ground. In the film adaptation of the book directed by Sean Penn, Chris is shown having similar struggles. Chris does kill a moose but due to his inexperience, he does not get the meat stored properly and it spoils. Chris is shown trying to leave in the film, but the Teklanika river was too strong. After the incident with the moose, Chris went to harvesting plants. Due to the lack of food in his system, Chris wrongly identifies a poisonous plant and eats it. Now he really needs to leave but the poison keeps him physically unable to do so. In Mary Oliver’s The Journey, the narrator talks of a bad storm they were in. They were out in the wild when the storm came around, and as his body wanted to stay and take shelter he knew otherwise. His mind was determined to escape the storm and escape the

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