Chris, aka Alex SuperTramp isn't really lost in the world. He knows what he has to do, find himself. Along the way, Alex makes a few mistakes. He wanted to get away from all that did him wrong, his family, but he was also forgetting they are also what did him right. He never told them he was safe or he was having a good time, he didn't even let them know he was alive.
Chris expressed love for others. He was out there living his dream, completely happy. He touched others with his words and was by no means selfish. He was a hard worker and did anything that he put his mind to. Chris was different. It was just too bad that he lost his life on his adventure. Imagine what he could have done for this world.
Chris had no fear, thinking nothing bad was going to happen to him, he took risks, lived on the edge. His only fear was water, which in the end was what killed him really. He could cross the river but if he wouldn't have feared water so much maybe he could have thought to look for a better place to cross.
Chris was definitely foolish in a lot of ways. He could have learned to hunt properly and preserve the meat. If he did these things maybe he wouldn't have starved to death, maybe he could have thought to collect herbs that weren't poisonous before he went on his hungry rant, collecting the first thing he found, maybe he should have realized he was hurting himself whenever he had to make another hole in his belt. That should have been the wake up call like hey you're not eating enough man. You need to start getting food some other way.
Chris McCandless's family realized their son was happy in the last months of his life. The journals and pictures he left behind were living proof. Just imagine, having a son with all the talent in the world and suddenly giving it all up on a silly voyage to find himself. I would be pretty devastated. His family honored the area in which Supertramp died. It wasn't easy for any of them.
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