Chris McCandless or Alex Super tramp, whichever one he prefers, is an individual who has made changes in the lives of others around him but has overlooked his parents. As I am reading this book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, I can’t help but think how ironic it is that Chris gets along with people he encounters on his journey and yet he cannot stand his parents. I feel that Chris is not a hero but rather is running away from his parents. If this entire mission was solely to appreciate nature, Chris would not continuous mention to people he encounters and complains to them about how his parents take him for granted. Chris’s adventure is only done to defy his parents and to prove to them that he does not need them buying him a new car, or paying for his law school education. Rather than just telling them this as a man, Chris decides to live on his own in the wild, and was hoping to come out alive to prove to his parents that he didn’t need them that he knew what he wanted to do in life. The approach in which Chris went about this is totally incorrect; for an educated person, he did not educate himself about the outdoors, or check out the credentials of the authors of those outdoor adventure books. A person with such a high grade point took a fictional and used it to survived in a real life. This once again proves my point that Chris was in such a rush to defy his parents that he did not research about this journey thoroughly before he departed.