



But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled Death. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. Like many people, McCandless believed that he could give his life meaning by pursuing a relationship with nature. Krakauer documents the life and death of Chris McCandless, a young man that embarked on an Odyssey in the Alaskan wilderness. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explores the human fascination with the purpose of life and nature. “make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt.
