Chris a Transcendentalists?????

Christopher McCandless was a very intellectual individual. According to society he was different from the normal. He was an idealist whose ideals did not mesh with the modern life. This is what caused him to go on his excursions in the wild. If one is to think back we could compare Chris to transcendentalists. They are people that live their life as one with nature and to have inner peace. They did not interact with “normal” people just amongst themselves. With the comparison of these two show that this why Chris’s story was so controversial. His life did not match the stereotype of college students usually perceived. Chris had good and bad qualities about himself. Yes he was smart and an intellectual yet he was impatient and self absorbing. While he was in college he pulled himself away from everyone else because most of his friends were into fraternities and sororities and was not with that. Even Chris’s mother said she could not understand why he took chances like that with his life. I believe that Chris was born with a different route of thinking. As he grew these qualities in him became stronger and stronger. He was more intelligent those around him and more into the free life with no strings attached. Even in high school as the cross country team Captain Chris would tell his teammates to think about all the evil and hatred in the world and imagine themselves running against the forces of darkness. As high school students his teammates were blown away by that kind of talk. After Chris graduated from Emory University he felt the time to be free and not have to worry about other worldly things. Even though he received a degree he did not put it to use. I believe if he had a choice of going to college or not he would not have gone because Chris was into achieving things in life without the things we think we have to have in order to live, things that are truly of no value. When Chris went on his escapades he burned all of his money, left all of his clothes and other tools. Chris felt the need to live amongst the homeless, pimps, and hookers just find out why they was doing what they was doing and would try to help them get out of there situation. I also believe that Chris was not afraid to be alone unlike so many of us in the world today. He was not afraid to die because in the end he got what he wanted and he was at peace with it. His mother may have not understood that but his sister did. Before he died there was a piece of paper that he wrote on and it said,

“Death’s a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made

Something more equal to the centuries

Than muscle and bone is mostly to shed weakness.”
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all.”