Contrasting Treadwell and McCandless

Compare and Contrast of Treadwell and McCandless When reading Into the kookie by Jon Krakauer as it docu custodyts the Journey Chris McCandless took and watching the icon The Grizzly Man as it documents Timothy Treadwells journey to document bears I was struck by how uniform the ii men, McCandless and Treadwell, really were. Yes, there were a large(p) many differences mingled with the two save in addition by how similar they were. While two men showed how they hated modern fellowship and mat a strong desire to live break throughside of our society, they twain also had very(prenominal) different takingss on Alaskan wilderness and how to survive in their Journeys.Just as both loved the surface, however, the two had very different practices concerning it. Treadwell would restitution to society every summer to work and found for his next outing and Treadwell refused to take a shot with him. In contrast, McCandless spent all of his time outdoors and away from human soc iety unless he dead needed to and carried a gun with him into the wilderness. Treadwell and McCandless both felt very constrained by human society and preffered to live out in the wilderness if possible.While Treadwell would pass along to human society for work and to raise coin or his next outing or hear others about what he learned of the bears, McCandless tried to draw as much time as he possibly could away from other humans. In Chapter phoebe bird of Into the Wild it was documented that McCandless had spent at least thirty-six days without seeing a nonher human at one point and throughout the origin six chapters it is documented that the most time he ever spent in one interpose was two months in order to raise money to go to Alaska. Furthermore, McCandless did his best to keep people removed(p) from him by changing his name and giving moody nformation.McCandless did his best to not tell anyone where he was going, slide off all ties with his parents, and took no one wi th him when he went to Alaska. Comparing this to Treadwell, who told people where he was going, how long he was staying, and at a certain point started to take his little girl and it shows a great difference between the two men. Treadwell was a peaceful man, if unhinged collectible to mental disorders he refused to treat. He loved the animals he documented in his time in the wilderness, expecially the bears, and swore to neer hurt them.Due to his, Treadwell never took a gun, pepper spray, or even bear repellent with him during his ten long time of going to the Maze. Though essentric, Treadwell was actually rather b jeopardize in keeping the animals calm as he interacted with them. McCandless, though he displayed no real inclinations towards violence, was certified of the dangers in the wilderness. He knew the dangers of bears and wild animals and had taken a gun with him, a . 22, in order to hunting and possibly for protection even if he knew it would not actually be effective against large animals such(prenominal) as moose, caribou, or bears.The two men had very different views of the animals in the wilderness as is shown by this. Treadwell loved them to the point he would rather risk death then harm them while McCandless motto the dangers and prepared for them. The two men also greatly differed in how they prepared for their trips. Treadwell was well prepared with pleanty of aliment and the nessisary gear. This became more prevalent during his utmost years receivable to him having his girlfriend with him as he Alaskan wilds brought on by Jack Londons books, among others, resulted in him being sadly offhand. When entering the Alaskan wiled the first day,McCandless only had rough spare clothes, some books, a few pounds of rice, and his gun. The two men died in the Alaskan wilds due, mostly in part, to their recklessness and over-estimation on how much they could handle. Treadwell stayed longer than he should create and this resulted in both he an d his girlfriend tragically dying at the jaws of a famishment grizzly. Had they left as planned instead of returning to the wilds due a mishap the two would have survived. McCandless went into the wilds and did surprisingly well for himself due to sheer understood luck that eventually ran out.His choice to go unprepared and believing he could live off the add proved fatal when he was unable to unhorse enough food and he slowly wolfish to death Just days before hunters arrived at the shelter that became his temporary grave. The two men showed a remarkable love for the wilderness and strove to permute their lives for the demote and live amongst the romanticized versions of what is actually a harsh reality. scorn both men dying in the wilderness, in the flesh(predicate) opinion leads me to believe that McCandless was more successful in his ultimate goal to change his life.Treadwell ad treasured to raise awareness of the bears plight and protect them but had more than likely severely damaged the bears by habituating them to humans that could lead to more fatalities. McCandless had wanted to change his life, find a purpose. He wanted to abandon society behind and see if he could unfeignedly live away from it. While he eventually died in Alaska his entire trip before the event, traveling cross country, and even to Mexico, had changed his life and views. Prior to his final days in Alaska it was shown that McCandless had achieved what he had set out to get, his own happiness.