“Well, Jen,” Chris drew out when Jared left. “How are you enjoying tonight?” Jensen sighed. “Chris, stop it, will you? Jared’s a nice friend. You don’t need to be so cold toward him.” Chris snorted. “Yeah, right... a friend. For fuck’s sake, are you blind, or what? Don’t you see how that dick’s looking at you?” Steve put a hand on Chris’ shoulder. “Calm down, you moron,” he said with a voice reserved for particularly troublesome people and Chris, which wasn’t that much of a difference. “I think Jared’s a great guy. Nothing else is important for now.” “Why is no one listening to me?” Chris complained to the ceiling, and Steve laughed. “’Cause you’re an overprotective bastard.” He took him by the bicep, leading him away to the kitchen. He winked at Jensen over his shoulder, saying lowly, “I’ll take care of him”. Jensen gave him a thankful smile. Steve had a gift to make Chris listen and look at things objectively. Chris never listened to anyone – not even Jensen – because he simply thought he knew better than them. Steve was the only one who was able to reason with his friend. How he did it yet remained a mystery. Jensen turned around, hoping to find any of his friends, and Justin stood there, looking at him with dazed, drunken eyes. He sighed and went to him. Justin just didn’t know how to hold his liquor. To be fair, he wasn’t the first and only one of his friends. Jensen still painfully remembered how he had to help Chris to get him to a bed when he’d overdone it with alcohol. Hauling his not so light friend up the stairs, trying to make him listen and lie down onto a bed took him over an hour. “Hey,” he said softly to Justin. “You alright?” Justin looked at him for a long time, swaying slightly on his feet. “Can I talk t’you?... ... middle of paper ... ...ved his eyes slowly to them and the dark retreated for a second, revealing James and Sarah, holding their hands, frozen in shock. He’d be horrified they saw him in such a horrible position but his mind took the moment to shut down, the spinning room too much to take in. He heard an angry male voice ordering, “Get Chris.” That was James’ voice. He croaked a small quivering no. Chris couldn’t see him like this. He was his best friend. It’d kill Jensen if he ever saw the disgust he was sure would appear in Chris’ eyes if his friend saw him like this. But no one listened to him like always and Jensen didn’t have the energy or time to say more as the hands holding him in place left without a warning, and his body slid down the wall heavily. He heard swearing and a loud yelling but none of it mattered because Chris would come and see him and would never talk to him again.
He failed to preserve the meat, ultimately ruining whatever he hadn’t already eaten - which amounted to a lot of food. Chris mourned over the loss of the life of the moose and chastised himself over wasting that life. After this incident, there was a noticeable shift in Chris’ character. He overlooked his life in a much more philosophical manner. The loss of the moose also showed a sympathetic and apathetic side of Chris that was not as apparent
...s was smarter he would have thought about his preparation, his motivation, and the possibility that he was mentally ill. I do not fully blame Chris because his friends and family could have prevented him from going. If they saw that he could possibly have a mental illness, then they could have forbidden him to go and would have saved his life.
Chris to be happy and wished him the best. Chris wrote in a letter to Ronald Franz, “You
First of all, the cause of Chris’s bad decisions falls on his character. For example, he refuses to accept help from others. Throughout Krakauer’s book, Chris refuses to accept any advice given from the people he met, especially those such as Westerberg and Jan Burres. His stubborn approach towards people shows his independent attitude throughout the story as he is determined to face obstacles independently. This is most evident in Chris’s time with Jan Burres. During the end of the fifth chapter, he displays his
While on this trip Chris met nice people willing to let him stay with them such as Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg. Keeping them at an arm's length Chris made sure not to get too close to them, trying to avoid them forming any expectations of him and emotions, he would leave with not so much as a goodbye. He wasn’t foolish this was just comfortable for him, tired of being cubed into the status quo society held for him, he found a way out. Chris also went two years without speaking a word to his sister who was described as the closest person to him. This goes back to him not wanting to carry any emotional baggage with him, it's not that he was insane he knew exactly what he was doing as he did it. Chris was just done with the standards of society.
Because Chris was fixed on living his life the way he wanted, he was intransigent towards the useful opinions from others. Although Chris was an intelligent individual, his brilliance was detrimental for his own good. More specifically, Westerberg, one of Chris’ closest friends, explained how passionate Chris’ mindset was concerning different aspects of life: “He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing” (4). Gradually, Chris’ restlessness in consistently wanting to discover the correct answer veered him onto a path of becoming adamant. Hence, he empowered for his premature demise because he never acknowledged the possibility of any situation being too laborious for him. Regrettably, Chris’ father confirmed that his son was a self-absorbed person because he never showed concern for the thoughts of others: “If you attempted to talk him out of something, he wouldn’t argue. He’d just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted” (8). By neglecting the time to reflect on the opinions of others, Chris illustrated how irrelevant he perceived the mindsets of others to be. Chris conveyed that he more so preferred to risk his life in doing something that he loved as opposed to listening to the sheltered and helpful advice from others. When a person is receptive to differing suggestions, they abate their discourteous behavior towards
Chris: Alright then. I feel it’s going to be quite cold later on, better enjoy it while it lasts. (Both men leave the stage, going inside the bar for drinks. James turns to look at Nolan once last time)
Honesty and truth were very important traits to Chris. The fact that a disillusionment happened to Chris was too much for him to bare, especially because it was about his own father. After he discovered about his father’s affair years ago and a half-brother he was clueless about, Chris was extremely wretched. His behavior started to become unrecognizable, “I saw Chris at a party after his sophomore year at Emory … and it was obvious he had changed. He seemed very introverted, almost cold” (Krakauer 120). He dealt with the pain in a certain way for quite sometime, until he decided he needed to go. To leave what was hurting him and that is exactly what he did. “Immediately after graduating…he changed his name, gave the entire balance of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions…” (Krakauer 1). His father’s affair was definitely a huge slap in the face that left him destroyed. Sadly, there are no step by step guides to how someone should process hard times and the wilderness was his escape from the
Witnesses said that Chris asked people one by one “are you Christian?” If the person answered yes, Chris made them stand up and he would say to them “Good, because you ‘re about to see God in just about one second.” Chris really heated religions, he even went as far as joining a club online. The membership on line was a club for people who “doesn’t like organized religions group”. When this nightmare eventually ended, when Chris was killed in a shootout. He was only 26 years old when all of this took
Chris’s relationship with his father was strained at best, and left him socially distant and unable to connect with others. Both Chris and his father were stubborn and strong willed, creating emotional differences between the two (64). When McCandless meets Westerberg’s longtime girlfriend Gail, she recalls that he was “shy at first,” and acted as if “it was hard for him to be around people.” In the time Gail spent with Chris, she could tell that “something was gnawing at him,” and it was fairly recognizable that “he didn’t get along with his family” (63). These unappealing social skills he had developed set him apart from others, causing him to be an inadequate conversationalist and feel left out in society. No feeling to belong in the social concepts he had been raised in subsequently prompted an unflinching urge to escape to a place where near nothing is similar to civilization. Lastly, in a final letter to his sister Carine, Chris wrote in regards to his parents, "I’m going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live. I’ll be through with them once and for all, forever”
...tic things. He sacrificed so much and put himself in danger to follow what he wanted to do. Chris was a smart cookie, and maybe that was what kept him going was the knowledge flooding through his body and the inspiration that reading gave him.
In the end of chapter ten, Krakauer explains how Sam McCandless is given the misfortune of telling his father and Billie that Chris is dead, but does not further explain their reactions to the news, giving an opportunity to infer their reactions. The first reaction Chris’s parents must have felt was shock and disbelief.
Chris problems worsen once he's distressed with the sudden loss of his parents to an automobile accident. Once the tragic Chris suffers from multiple problems that have an effect on his existence. He claims to own problems with emotional outburst; he acts out frequently, issues forming relationships with other individuals, and has nightmares. He additionally states that he becomes upset and troublesome to regulate. He explains he's experiencing feelings of being alone, abandonment and rejection. He reverts to infringing his frustration on others, he's withdrawn, get into fights, his grades has suffe...
“I know that sounds really bad,but I did it to protect my friends!We were all sick and tired of Andrew just picking on us, so we stood up for each other.”I replied.
"Okay," and with that, Chris hung up the telephone. I could hear him bury his head back into his pillow to try and get just a few more minutes of sleep before the big day.