Into the Wild

Brief Summary

Jon Krakauer tells a story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a young man of privileged upbringing, who decides to abandon his life and head to the wilderness. On his path to find meaning, Christopher tragically dies in the Alaskan wild, and his death prompts many philosophical questions. "Into the Wild" paints a nuanced, yet objective portrait of McCandless and the ideas he was trying to live by.