Christopher McCandless

They probably not only felt upset and hurt from the loss of their son but guilty for the things they put him through. If I had a child and my mistakes made him or her feel hurt, angry, unloved, ect to the point that they ran off like that id feel very guilty. I'd probably hate myself for causing tha...

Chris wanted to live life the way he believed it should be lived. Nothing gets handed to you, things don't come easy, and you must be ready for whatever. Nobody tells you what to do and how to do it, you just go with the flow and figure things out yourself. Chris believes that life is more fun when ...

His parents, mostly his dad, did some really messed up things when he was growing up. They tried to act like it didn't happen and cover it up by pretending to be number one parents and buy him things. By giving his money away and not accepting things he is in a way showing that money doesn't make li...