Chris McCandless - Laura Ramey

I didn't get to attend the talk with McCandless' parents because of a conflict with another class but I'd still like to through my thoughts on the book out there. I thought McCandless was a selfish guy. He didn't need to run off into the wild all by himself for years to try to "find himself". He didn't need to burn his money or wreck he car and he definitely didn't need to ignore his parents. I don’t think his adventure was spiritual at all. I think it was his immature way of getting away from his “problems” that never really existed. He was from Mclean, VA. Have you seen the houses there? Yes, I’ll give him that it was a few years ago, but it was still the nice part of Northern VA. I think he wanted something different, like 99% of the people I know from Northern VA and ran away from what he had. Sure, he wanted a life of his own, but he didn’t need to make the irrational decisions that he did.