Into the Wild Book Review

Although the powerful sketch drawn by Jon
Krakauer based on a true story of Christopher McCandles presents a wild
ecstasy, which was later escorted by Sean Penn as "Into the Wild",
but my personal opinion about the movie is somewhat critical. It would not be
wrong to say that I believe critics is not in the movie but the way McCandles preceded
his "Alaska
journey" raises several questions in mind. The way McCandles believe
things work deceived him and remained him unable to get a hold on his
circumstances. The critical aspects I believe in the movie are:



1) Upon getting into depression, his sister was supposed to help him combat
with his inner despair either through conducting some counselling sessions with
a good experienced counsellor or simply making his perception change. She as a
loving sister whom McCandles had relied was supposed to make him change his way
of perceiving things.

2) The dearth of a communication barrier between parents and children
particularly teenagers often thrust them into peculiar circumstances in which
parents play a vital role to drive them out of the trench, but in this case
there was no parental support on the moral side, instead there was a complete
understanding barrier which got wider and wider.

3) McCandles personal inexperience about
Alaskan way of living. Of course it was his amateur behaviour that followed his
inexperience towards the wild berries of Alaska,
his unawareness of the means to preserve meat indicates his naivety of the
Alaskan life style and despite reading books and having his own philosophy,
McCandles remained unable to have a firm hold upon Alaskan life style.

4) The biggest gaffe was McCandles own perception about life what he considered
it to be “a bed of roses”, however when he realized the true purpose of life it
was too late and the doors of arrival to his homeland had been closed.

5) Although he recognized his personal frustration to be responsible for
leading him Into the Wild but by then he felt the call of death had been made
for him. He could have understood that huge blocks of ice could turn into high
water level but since death was calling him into the wild, he had to wait, wait
for the call of death and that he did by lying in the Alaskan bus. He died not
because he ate wild potatoes but because of starvation and weighted 67 pounds
at the time of death.