In Into the Wild, what can be learned from Chris McCandless' story? In Into the Wild, what can be learned from Chris McCandless' story?

Of course this question
is going to receive a
range of different responses, and I think it is testament to the
incredible
re-telling of the story of Chris McCandless in this novel that it is able to evoke
so
many different responses. My own feelings about the story of Chris
McCandless are ones of
sadness at theand the waste of his life. I feel very
attracted to his personality and the way
that he lived what he believed so
defiantly, even up until his death, and I must admit that I
admire the way he
met his death as described in the last chapter of this account before the

:

He is smiling in this picture, and there is
no
mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a
monk
gone...