Throughout some parts of the book, Chris handled things poorly. He was stubborn, ungrateful and stupid. An example of this is how he acted during the situation with his parents when Krakauer reveals Mr. McCandless’s secret love affair. Despite the fact that his …show more content…
He loved nature and was determined to complete his journey no matter what obstacles came along. He had a gift, which was the ability to find beauty in everything he saw out west. At a very young age, world hunger, and other huge problems, were on his list of things to put an end too. He wasn’t like most young people, consumed with a life of partying and drugs. Instead he thought about all the evil and hatred in the world, and imagined himself, “…running against the forces of darkness…” (Krakauer 112). One of his friends from high school said, “You aren’t supposed to think about heavy-duty stuff in high school. But I did, and he did, too…” (Krakauer 113). The novel explains “McCandless took life’s inequalities to heart. During his senior year at Woodson, he became obsessed with racial oppression in South Africa” (Krakauer 113). On weekends he would buy meals for prostitutes and homeless people. Before he embarked on his journey, he donated every penny of his twenty-four thousand dollars to charity. Whether it was sports or his grade in a class, he always did exceptionally well. He had a lot of determination and drive in