On a freezing mountain of Mt.McKinley in Alaska inside an abandoned bus three hikers found a body of a young man that was decomposed. The young man who was about twenty four years of age only weighed about sixty seven pounds. The body belonged to Christopher Johnson McCandless who traveled to Alaska by hitchhiking and walked alone into the wilderness. The cause of death was starvation. He had been dead for two and a half weeks. The story of this courageous and noble man touched many people’s hearts. Among them are people he met on his journey to Alaska and made friends with such as Wayne Westerberg who had the same views of life as Chris, Jan Burres who had motherly connection with Chris and she had a son about the same age as he was, or Ron Franz who looked at Chris as a grandson and wanted to adopt him. All these people made a connection with McCandless and looking at him as part of their family.
Christopher McCandless was a son of Samuel Walter and Billie McCandless. His parents were wealthy and owned their own business but Chris was embarrassed by that and called it shameful and inherently evil. “Chris was always an entrepreneur”(115) his mother said. He wanted to earn his own money. During the last years of his life Chris had a different relationship toward his parents. He always knew about his father’s previous marriage and his other family but when he found out that his dad had a double life his relationship with them became sour. Among his family he liked his sister Carine the most, and he was wrote her often. The lack of his relationship with his family and the love that he had for nature encouraged him to start his journey.
Christopher McCandless created many lasting bonds with people during his journey to Alaska. Among them was Wayne Westerberg owner of grain elevator in Carthage South Dakota. One afternoon Wayne picked up a hitchhiker, an amiable kid, named Alex McCandless. Alex was vulnerable and hungry, Wayne took him home and try to take him...