McCandles

From reading the story about McCandless and all the things he went through I do not think that many people today exist like him, but I do think that there are still some people that are still like Mccandless. McCandless had everything that you could never imagine. He was a graduate student, for one, from one of the most highly honored colleges, Emory University. Just by getting into this college and graduating from this school lets you know that McCandless was an extremely smart person. He also came from a very wealthy background. His parents had $20,000 just for his schooling which he eventually gave the money away to a relief fund. McCandless had everything that anybody could ever want and he felt like he had everything and needed something that he has never experienced. I feel like when people have all the material things you could possibly have they feel like they have to do other things to get a since of satisfaction. Some famous people do things to get attention, too, like when Brittany Spears cut her hair off that was for attention because she has all the money and basically gets whatever she wants. In some ways Brittany Spears and other celebrities like Paris Hilton seem like the people that would end up doing the things that McCandless did. Society has changed drastically over the past 15 years to where our primary goals are affected by the economy. Everything revolves around money. If you don’t have money then life is going to be hard for you. It seemed like McCandless wanted to see what the hard life felt like. He went days without eating just to prove that he could make it. He did not want the help of anybody. For example when McCandless did not want to take the plane ticket offered to him by his friend Gallien. McCandless wanted to take the hard way of doing things. Money matters a lot in this world. If you do not have money you cannot afford to go to school, have a house, or even buy the things you need to survive. Society is going to continue to change drastically. For example the price of gas continues to increase. The economy is increasing all the time. McCandles would not be viewed as the “norm” of the society today. People during today’s society go to school then go to work as a way of living. McCandles did not do that he did go to school but like to do more adventurous things that did not involve money or the material things. He left everything behind and went off of what his heart felt. Now a day people cannot go off what their heart feels because their heart is not going to pay the bills or put food on the table. You have to work in order to survive in America or else you will die of starvation like McCandles did at the end of his short lived and creative life.