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I feel he is foolish because he left his family and the result was death.
"He couldn't wait to head out there and get started.

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I feel he is stupid for throwing away everything that would help him survive. He was not packed well for what he wanted to do and there for he is an idiot.

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I believe he's brave because he had the guts to do something he really wanted to do. Despite what everyone was telling him. Most people would be way too scared to go out without being dependent on anything, but Chris knew what he had to do in order to find who he really is.

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I believe Chris is a hero because he inspired others to follow their dreams and escape the world to find their reality and become their true self. However I also think he is arrogant for that same reason because his acts were selfish and although he wanted to discover who he truly was, he could have done it in a less abrupt way

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I feel that Chris is both because he was brave enough to go out and explore the world, which was something most people wouldn't want to do or be brave enough to do. But Chris also was foolish for going out also because he had basically abandoned his own family. As well as thinking he could live in the wild without any resources.

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I think he was foolish because he gave up all his friends and family so basically in the end he could just end up dead.
Foolish - "The probable cause of
death, according to the coroner’s report, was starvation." This shows that his survival skills for eating weren't as good as he thought they were.
"toxic alkaloid in the seeds weakened
McCandless to such a degree that it became impossible for him to hike out to the
highway or hunt effectively, leading to starvation." This shows that he didn't know what to eat when he was out in the wilderness because this toxic seed lead to his death.
"I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM
ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT
COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU," This shows that he realizes he was foolish on going into the wild alone and finally writing in his journal and asking for help from other people.

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“Hey Guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you. ALEXANDER. (69). I do believe that McCandless was Brave and foolish for his actions on his travels and this quote supports how McCandless was foolish because he is  hinting at not talking to them again and cutting off all ties which I think is foolish on his part Because she is making it so nobody will be able to help him if she gets into a dangerous situation by not letting them know where he would be and saying goodbye to them what seems like for good. "Everett was strange," Sleight concedes. "Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream.  That's what was great about them.  They tried.  Not many do." page 96.This quote on the other hand supports The Bravery of Chris by talking about how he chased his dreams like others have and giving us the impression that no matter how dangerous it is he went to go take it even if it was foolish he still did what he wanted and that's a great thing to go out on your own.

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"My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do it reach for it" (59). I believe Chris was brave on one part because he went out to try new things. Especially, for him to advice other people(Ron)to go out and live their life shows that he is brave enough to share what he has learned with them. No matter what they think and whether or not if they will take his advice. It was just Chris's way of sharing what he learned from his experiences and advising it on others--which is also a brave thing to do.

"Maybe I will and maybe I wont" (160). This quote occurs when a man named Stuckey asks Chris to call his parents and he answers with this. Because of this I also believe Chris was foolish in some way because he was very rebellious to contact his parents. And wanting nothing to do with them at all. Even though I can understand where he's coming from and what he's been through, having hatred and resentment towards someone wont help make you feel any better. It would just make you angrier and angrier about them and want to punish them more. And for this I believe he should've still contacted them, but keep some distance in what he believes opposed to what they believed. Instead of having anger with them because it only got worse and worse whenever the idea of his parents where brought up.

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In Judith Kleinfeld's article "McCandless: Hero or Dumb Jerk?", Kleinfeld is shown to be biased towards Chris McCandless being a Hero. But, with the many different responses of people in the book Into the Wild and the article, I am considering that Chris McCandless is both a hero and a fool. It does mention Krakauer's book, at the beginning of Kleinfeld's article, "immortalizes this young man , who walked into the wilderness with no map, no ax, no mosquito repellent and no first aid equipment" (Kleinfeld line 4). But in Krakauer's book, Chapter 6 begins with a letter from Ronald Franz claiming that Chris McCandless "always carried enough rice in his backpack + he had arctic clothes + plenty of money" (Krakauer 48). In this case, Chris McCandless is not foolish.

Some more evidence of McCandless's hero actions is shown in Chapter 11. It explains his journeys throughout highschool being the captain of his cross country team and how all his teammates agreed that he was very motivational and looked up to as a brave hero. In this chapter, McCandless's teammate Eric Hathaway recalls McCandless giving them a speech before a race, telling them to "think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best" (Krakauer 112). As a highschooler, "that kind of talk" was unexpected, but it showed he truly had a passion for anything he put his min to. It showed he was brave to never give up. This created a lot of motivation for everyone that he met along his way to Alaska.

But to counteract that, Chris McCandless still had the behaviors of a fool. In Chapter 12, Chris McCandless makes the discovery that his father was living a double life when he was young. Instead of confronting his parents about it, he "chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquently, in silence and sullen withdrawal" (Krakauer 123). This showed that McCandless was immature about how he dealt with that family problem. Instead of resolving the issues, he just leaves his family completely because of his hate towards his father. He was a fool to leave his mom and sister who didn't do anything wrong to deserve that.

Another set of evidence to support his foolishness is seen in chapter 7 when he writes to Wayne Westerberg, Jan Burres and Bob. He sends Westerberg a post card mentioning the little hope he has for his journey in Alaska as he writes "If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again, I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild" (Krakauer 69). And the post card to Jan Burres and Bob that reads "This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you" (Krakauer 69). Both of these postcards note that Chris McCandless is now saying his goodbyes and not wanting any more contact with them which was a very foolish thing to do, since in the end he asked for help from anyone who would see. These people cared about him a lot and he decides to stop communication and their friendships which could be one of the reasons he isn't alive today.

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I think that Chris is someone who let arrogance win in his mind when he saw how he lived fine after his many wild adventures which caused foolishness and neglected the importance of preparing for safety. Just like how "He had inadvertently poisoned himself by eating seeds from a plant commonly called wild potato, known to botanists as Hedysarum
alpinum." which probably one of the things that lead him to death.

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I do believe that Chris was both brave and dumb but more on the side of brave. while reading the book of into the wild we were able to see his whole journey from the point of others by interviews, postcards and just other things that were put into the book by the author. for starters being able to go on such a big journey all by yourself with a bit of help from others to reach the end goal of being free, exploring the world for what it is, being able to get away from the things that made his life bad before and live the life he wanted but on the other hand going into the wile so unprepared like that (ex. not enough equipment, not enough food, burned money, etc...) refusing much of the help that many wanted to give him on his way to Alaska and just not making a plan before going onto such a dangerous trip makes him look dumb. many within the book could also tell that when he was getting closer to taking the last big step to reach Alaska to finally to accomplish is goal could tell that this was going to be his last big time/ last time see him or hearing from him. ¨when mccandles hugged borah good-bye, she says´ I noticed he was crying. that frightened me. he wasn't planning on being gone all that long; I figured he wouldn't have been crying unless he intended to take some big risks and knew he might n=not be coming back. that´s when I started having a bad feeling that we wouldn't never see Alex again´¨(Krakauer, 68).
¨´He wasn't carrying anywhere near as much food and gear as you´d expect a guy to be carrying for that kind of trip,´ Gallien recalls¨ (Krakauer, 4).  this showing that he had little gear and food to live off of but with the help of the friends he made on his way to Alaska he was able to pick up some tips, gear and even more food to survive. with the friends he meet on the way he gave some of them very useful information about how to live your life to the fullest. within the book he even told Ron how to live his life to the fullest even if he did not have anyone in his life to carry his legacy. ¨´The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is not greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. if you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy´¨(krakauer, 57). Chris wanted to shoe others the world he found outside of laws and safety with others to see if they to will enjoy life that he found just as much. Ron took his his teachings to heart and did just that, he was able to show others the greatness that world has to offer outside of everyone else regular safe days.

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I believe he is foolish because even the local hikers said it was a very dumb way to do this trip as stated in "How Chris McCandless Died" And the fact that he didn't really know what he was eating and paralyzed himself as stated in "How Chris McCandless Died"

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I believe that he was Arrogant and in a way, stupid because he did not think of the things that could harm him in the wild without his equipment. and he did not think it could lead to his death probably. he just was not ready.

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I believed that he was Arrogant/Foolish because he acted selfish. He Ventured out into the Alaskan wilderness to search for happiness and 2 years later, he suffered from starvation, and before his death he'd left a note saying " Attention all possible visitors S.O.S. I need your help. I am Injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone . This is no joke. In the name of god, please remain to save me. I am out collected berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless August?". This tells us that towards the end, he needed help and was foolish enough to not tell anyone where he was before needing help

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Chris is selfish in his actions and hurts his family in the process of finding himself. He took unnecessary risks and didn't take enough precautions to survive his trip. He doesn't tell anyone where hes going and how long he will be gone and doesn't attempt to get into contact with them very often. He makes foolish decisions and ends up losing his life for it.

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I believe that Chris was a hero but also foolish at the same time. I think that he's wrong about the fact that he left in the first place. He could of been studying at some great school but no, life is too good, lets make it hard on myself, he just wasted his time in the wild. But from the other hand he's just a savage. Not alot of people would do what he did and survive for that long.