Into the wild is a book about an extremely ideological person. Chris McCandless resents the world of materialism from which he was born into and in an effort to separate himself from this life he walks away from it. The mystery is why McCandless did what he did. He had no reason behind the unsatisfactory family life that many of most modern families have, to run away. In most other cases people stay and deal …showed first 75 words of 769 total…

…showed last 75 words of 769 total…people stay and deal with their problems. McCandless on the other hand ran away in the most dangerous of possible ways. Chris! made a decision that put himself in great harm in order to prove that his ideology could be proved and saved through his journey. "No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost among the wild." (page 163) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** into the wild byjon krakauer