"'Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine,' scolded another correspondent. 'Entering the wilderness purposefully ill-prepared, and surviving a near-death experience does not make you a better human, it makes you damn lucky'" (Krakauer 71).
Topic: Inspiration or Fool?
Based on all the information that was given previously from the book, we can tell that Chris was not prepared for his trip to the wilderness. From Chapter one, we knew that the only things that he brought as rice, a cheap leather boots, a 0.22 caliber riffle, and a map.The food and materials that clearly could not make him survive for a long period of time. Also, his attitude was so confident. From chapter eleven between the interviews of the narrator and his parents, we knew that his parents are always there to help after Chris when he faced any problems, makes him not independent enough. This is why he never believe that anything bad will happen to him. He was both materialistically and mentally unprepared for this trip, which leads to a tragic ending. Just like what this correspondent said, if he survived in his trip, it's really because of luck. From these evidence, we can tell that going unprepared for a trip is a fool thing to do.
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