“I now walk into the wild.” Those were the eerie almost-haunting last words written in a letter by Chris McCandless addressed to Wayne Westerberg. One of many people that McCandless spent time with while during his compelling & exhilarating grand odyssey across America before his trip to Alaska. For as he described in his journal “The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.” Informatively written and researched by award winning adventure writer and journalist John Krakauer. He has pieced together a compelling and investigative look at what happened during the two years that McCandless shed his possessions and hit the road traveling across the country up until, his tragic death as …show more content…
His attempt in solving the enigma that was Chris McCandless proves futile in the end as in his struggle to understanding leads to an entirely unnecessary chapter devoted to Krakauer himself and almost serves as an elaborate plug into his previous grueling, gritty, daring and adventurous publication of “Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains” where he goes into even greater detail describing his memorable perspective of solo madness to scale the notorious Devil’s Thumb.
McCandless describes at one point in his journal as to what he is searching for as “Ultimate Freedom.” However never at any point is this touched upon again by neither Mccandless or Krakauer. As even at one point he even addresses the issue “Roman. Andrew, and I stay up well past midnight, trying to make sense of McCandless’s life and death, yet his essence remains slippery, vague elusive.” (Krakauer 189)
Into the Wild, 186 An idealism that he chases throughout as he has grown to resent authority as an oppressive force. He chases the idea of ultimate freedom to Alaska where he believed himself to live contently away from society’s oppressive rule and where he would only have to abide by one rule which that is of