Into the wild

The peace “into the wild” is so sensational in the fact that it doesn’t match the stereotype we usually see for college students. After reading this some might say Chris McCandless aka Alex Superstramp was a little nutty despite being very intelligent. Why would an honors graduate from a prestigious college, Emory University want to go on such a wild excursion?

McCandless would ask himself questions like how could people possibly be allowed to go hungry? Most college students would just start up an organization to help the unfortunate or give a little community service, but not McCandless. It is no doubt that he had the money to do it or something similar to it, having 20Gs left over from the money his parents had for him, thinking he might use it for law school, but no he give it away to charity. I would think for a college student who had just graduated 20Gs would be something wonderful to have going out into the world.

It was like he was on a mission to prove that he could be independent of any ones needs show himself that he is not ungrateful of what he has, but by doing what he did, leaving to prove this even if it was just to himself to me is kind of selfish. I say this because not only in the end did he waste his parents money and a great opportunity to do something great with his education he let the ones who loved him suffer. His parents were so worried about their son that they hired a private investigator to track him down. I don’t believe for one second that McCandless was a nutcase like the text says most Alaskans might think and that’s proven where it says “Chris McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory. As early as third grade, a teacher was moved to pull Chris’s parents aside and inform them that their son “marched to a different drummer.” At the age, he entered his first running competition, a 10k road race, and finished 69^th, beating more than 1,000 adults. By high school he was effortlessly bringing home A’s” and it also goes on to say that his high school classmates were blown away by his talk of spiritual aspects to motivate them in track. He would tell them about the evil in the world, all the hatred, and that the evil was trying to keep them from running their best.

That being said I think McCandless just didn’t know what to do with the gifts that god has endowed him with. This man could have done many great things with his intelligence but he chose to go on this wild ride across the country that alone proves he was no ordinary college student. I also don’t believe he had any death wishes, I think he always planed of coming back home, why else would he do this after going to college and not before.