Death of an Innocent

Chris McCandless was a young man that was not considered one who lived the “normal” life. He went against the norm of having a job, living in a house, and going about the modern way of obtaining food. This was a man that had everything at his feet. His parents were wealthy, he was a college graduate, and had a family that loved him dearly. Chris did not want to use these advantages to his sake .He wanted to live by traveling around the U.S. and relying on nature as a means of survival. It is funny how almost fifteen years have passed and people would not even have thought to live in nature if they had a choice. Society has become greedy for money so the idea to live in nature would surely be out the question. People want to be content with their way of living and living in nature would surely be unethical. People would love the idea of having an education and being born into a family that had money like McCandless’s. Since everyone in America is not affluent the urge for money is a constant addiction.
Society has changed day by day and the money has become the main goal of most people. People have become too used to having a roof over their head and living of materialistic things. Nature would surely not be an alternative even if one did not have a home. The economy has become a source of survival. People need money to live like how they want. They work and go to school so they would not have to eat in the wilderness and find any means of a ride from a stranger like Chris did. It is interesting because Chris chose this way of living on purpose. He did not want to have to work just for money and that goal having to be his daily routine. He found happiness in nature and the beauty and challenges that it brought forth. Many people unlike Chris base their life of money and do not think about traveling on foot and being a hitchhiker. People are becoming greedy. Some laugh at the fact of giving back to the environment and enjoying the existence of it.
Money is quickly being burnt figuratively when it comes to how people are living their lives these days. Chris did not want that life. Once during his journey he burnt up the last bit of money that he had. He knew that money was not the means of happiness, but instead just another asset truly treasured by society. Chris donated to an organization a large sum of money that his parents saved up for him for his college fund. He did not want to live of money like the rest of society. There are not that many people that can live in nature for a long period of time with the purpose of never going back into society. Even though Chris did not survive to share his story he died not give into the myth that “money makes the world go around”.