My opinion of Chris McCandless so far is that he was a young man that was so distressed by his parent’s stifling world, filled with too much security which prevented him from finding himself and doing what he loved the most, which is being in the nature and getting more acquainted with it. He was just so excited to leave his parents and his peers and start a new life for himself in which he would be the one that’s deciding the experiences he wants to go through.
I believe he was a very hard worker and an extremely reliable person, we see that from his academic history and from his performance at work. Also, he was a very determined person, resolute to reach and achieve what he wants to. For example, the time when he was on the canoe and he was trying so hard to get to the ocean, and even though he failed so many times he still kept on going until he got his way out.
I believe that Chris was being selfish and taking his ideas way too far when it came to his relationship with his family and the way he treated them. I don’t exactly know what his parents had done for him to cause them so much pain and suffering but whatever it is, I am quite sure that they don’t deserve all of what he has put them through. I also think that Chris had overestimated his abilities, and it was his overconfidence that led him to his death. Even though he was warned by a lot, he was stubborn and insisted on doing things his own way which again caused him to lose his life.Another problem that Chris had was that he doesnt seem to notice that most of the time he survives a certain difficulty that comes across him because he is always saved by others, and we see that more than once. One example was the time when he was on the canoe and was trying to get to the ocean but kept on failing and when he was so distressed and was so frustrated he found a group of duck hunters that agreed to take him to the ocean.
I am against the way he is likes to isolate himself and just not have anyone know where he is and what he is doing and how he is surviving, and this is another factor that led him to die. He said that he doesnt feel comfortable in society while we later see that he does so well when he is around people and many find him charming and enjoy his presence, so what I don’t understand is why he enjoyed isolating himself the way he did. Right now, I have mixed feelings towards Chris.
Well I am not so sure what I want my zine to be about, but i was thinking of having it be about shopaholics. I enjoy shopping so much and i do shop frequently and it has always been the reason to why id end up being broke sometimes. Since i can relate to this topic, I’d probably find a lot that i can say in my zine.
