Taking It To The Limit

"...engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, whit has always bee o easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionary adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes. McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme" (Krakauer 182).

Topic: Inspiration or Fool?

I think we can all agree that Chris McCandless has proven to u that he is daring and willing to doe anything and everything to fulfill true happiness. Many people think he is straight up crazy. Little do people know, Chris was born into a physically abusive family. His father often went off on alcoholic rages beating his mother. From a young age Chris loved to go adventuring as a release of all the negative energy. So it did not come as a surprise to his family when they found out what he spent his last 2 years doing. People uneducated about Chris's past made the assumptions that he just flipped a switch in his mind that made him lose touch with humanity. This teaches a valuable lesson of "don't judge a book by its cover." To me, Chris is an inspiration. Throughout his adventures he proves to me that you can do whatever makes you happy, as you can see in the last photo Chris McCandless took before he climbed into his sleeping bag in the Alaskan wilderness and never woke again.