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Chris McCandless eventually went on a journey that lead him to a bunch of different experiences, as well as Alaska which lead him to his death. He was an individual who had everything possibly handed to him and at the end of the day, he still wasn't happy. I felt like he felt he had something he had to do, which was to follow his own path. "What nobody knew-was the he would shortly donate all the money in his college fund to OXFAM America, a charity dedicated to fighting hunger." I feel like this wasn't the best decision he made but in reality despite what other people might think, he did what he felt like he needed to do. I feel like he could've given all this money back to his parents whom have put so much money into his education which he didn't take into consideration. But at the end, I felt like this particular part was the beginning, the beginning of his new life and a new start on his own and without his parents or families. He clearly didn't care for his family so although I feel like they should have got the …show more content…
One in particular is Shaun Callarman who really expresses how much he does not think he is an intelligent individual at all and who is clearly just crazy. "He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don't admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas." I honestly disagree with this fact that he has given because in reality it is not a fact at all. It is his opinion. One opinion out of many, this I don't agree with because of the fact it is just somebody's own perspective and possibly can be determined of how they were raised and what they think of what is right and what is wrong. At the end McCandless made his own decisions for nobody else but himself and I feel like any other opinion of what he did or didn't do doesn't matter because he did what made himself happy and what deep down he felt was right for him, even if it caused him to his

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