Jon Krakauer writes, “McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype. Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent - he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were. And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an outcast. McCandless was something else - although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim, perhaps.” I agree with this quote because McCandless wasn’t an idiot. He was just blinded by an ultimate desire to break away from human society. He felt as if escaping all ties to human conduct would rid him of some sort of despair. So much more free to the point that he was willing to risk anything and everything.

McCandless did find what he was looking for in the end. Through discarding all his materialistic possessions such as vehicle, money, and identification he was finally free of society and its burden. He travelled cross country and …show more content…
He found love through the stage performance with the girl in slab city, he found support through the old man wanting to adopt him and help him out, and finally he found friendship through the couple. If only he knew what he had then was not worth giving up he would still be alive. But like McCandless said himself “ Man's very fiber in his soul is ignited by new experiences.” This quote leads me to believe that he knew no matter what that his dream was worth throwing everything away for. McCandless had a loving family who missed him very much and was in a lot of pain due to his absence. He thought that they hated him and he was the cause for their constant bickering but deep down inside after meeting all those people along his journey did it finally awaken to him. That his family and their love finally peer out to him. And that throwing everything away was a distinct mistaken only driven by pure