[ SECRET POST #2958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The character or the person? I can agree about the character, but I think the real life Chris (or Alex) McCandless is slightly more complicated. I won't say that he wasn't foolish (he certainly wasn't anywhere close to prepared to do what he did) and he came across as pretentious, but reducing him to a spoiled rich brat seems a bit simplistic considering the complicated relationship he had with his parents. His dad's anger problems are briefly alluded to in the book, but more recent information from his sister (that has also been supported by others in the family) shows that their mother and father were pretty abusive at points in their childhood (among other things, their mother would shout at Chris and accuse him of trapping her in a relationship because she got pregnant with him and their father would occasionally get drunk and beat both children along with his wife). The sister says that she's long forgiven her parents for their behavior but that Chris was never really able to and she believes that their mother and father played a huge role in driving him away although she says that she doesn't him for his actual death. Like I said, I still think he holds responsibility for his death, but I still feel sympathetic towards him.

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*she says that she doesn't blame them for his actual death

[(Anonymous)]

I feel bad for the guy and it sounds like he had a rough childhood, but I'm not sure it has anything to do with his decision to go off into the Alaskan wilderness woefully unprepared for the journey.

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I was mostly just contesting the idea that he could be boiled down to a rich, spoiled brat by pointing out that his childhood wasn't exactly idyllic. I'm not sure how much his childhood contributed to him running off to Alaska and whether the ultimate outcome would have been any different if his parents had been as consistently loving and supportive as many people believed them to.

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The thing was, he didn't just run straight off to Alaska. He left home and then traveled all around the lower 48 for quite a while and worked odd jobs and things. It's probably less likely he would have struck out on his own in the first pace if his family situation was better, but I don't see how his decision to later travel to the Alaskan wilderness and to do it without confirming whether the survival skills he had (because he did have some) were adequate for the environment can be excused or even explained by his childhood. I wouldn't call him a rich brat and I'd understand his reasons to leave home, but he was still an idiot with a big ego.