Into The Wild

Into The Wild is a story about a privileged boy named Christopher McCandless who decides to runaway and disappear after he graduates from Emory University of Atlanta in 1990. It's a little odd that on the cover of the book it says he dies, which is like the biggest spoiler alert ever in the history of spoiler alerts. I think that John Krakauer, the author, does it on purpose. I believe that he does it in order for us to not to try and figure out how Chris died, but why he chose to do all he did. He had it made, he graduated from college, his parents had money which meant he had money. So why did he do it? A lot of people would kill to be as privileged as he was in the book, but he chose to let it all burn to the ground as if it did not matter to him. How does the actions of Chris relate to passion and privilege?

After reading this book and after learning about the life Chris had. I was beyond mad. Who just decides to just get up one day just run away? He had already gone through college, he was set. His parents had money so he had money. Why did he decide to do it? It's as if he didn't care at all. It seems as if he didn't care about it. He also died at a very young age. He was full of privilege, he pretty much had it all. Maybe this is where the privilege and passion goes into play. Maybe he didn't want to go to school and then work for the rest of his life until he died. It's ironic how Chris ditches his car and burns all his money, but ends up getting rides from others. He also quits his first job in California when the boss man tell him "you wont be getting paid much here". So he quit because he won't be getting paid, but he burned his money? Maybe he had some sort off monetary problem. His parents did want him to go to Harvard. Maybe that's why he ran away, so he didn't have to disappoint his parents about him not wanting to go to Harvard. He didn't even try to tel his parents that he did not want to go to Harvard so that can't be it. Maybe he didn't even want to go to school period so he decided to leave it all behind and explore. What does that make him, someone who follows their passion?Or an arrogant?

I think that Chris ended up dying because he wanted to follow his passion. Of course, he really died of hunger. What I really mean is that Chris decided to go against societies way of living and decided to do his own thing instead. It is tragic that he dies yes, but his death has a bigger picture rather than just him dying. He didn't care about education, that was acceptable by me because it wasn't like he tried to convince others that education was not important. It might of just not been his thing, he probably didn't like school and only did it so he would get his parents off his back about it. Chris friend Westerberg tries to determine what happened to Chris that made him do all this. Westerberg says "Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world... a couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind off stuff". He did all this traveling and learned all these new thing for what? So he could die? It's ridiculous because first of all he was very young and had a lot of living to do and second, he died because he followed his passion. He may have been content with the actions he chose to do, but to me, it seemed like a really good waist of resources he was handed down. "When we asked him why he did all that he had done, he said he didn't need the money." said Jan Burres who picked up Chris along a Oregon highway. It's almost like when you don't finish your food and your parents remind you that others aren't as blessed to be eating the warm meal your eating.