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found out that his father had not divorce his first wife when he and his sister, Carine was born. Chris and Carine also proved to have six half-brother who lives in
California from his fathers first marriage.
In truth McCandless had been raised in the comfortable upper-middle class environs of Annandale, Virginia. His
father, Walt, is an eminent aerospace engineer who designed advanced radar systems for the space shutle and
other high profile projects while in the employ of NASA and Hughes Aircraft in the 1960s and 70s. In 1978, Walt
went into business for humself, launching a small but eventually prosperous consulting firm, User Systems,
Incorporated. His partner in the venture was Chriss mother, Billlie. There was eight children in the extended
family: a younger sister, Carine, with whom Chris was extremely close, and six half brothers and sisters from
Walts first marriage. Krakauer, 1996:19-20
Families who have beenlied to himis what becomeone of the factorsthatChrishas theidealisticpersonality. He becomesnolonger trust inanything.As
inhis words, he quotesfromThoreau. Ratherthanlove, thanmoney, thanfaith, thanfame, thanfairness, .......give metruth. Krakauer, 1996:117
4.6 Findings
From the analysis above, it is knownhow thepersonality ofthe maincharacterandwhatfactorsthat influence thepersonality ofthemaincharacterto
becomesomeone who isidealistic. Heres the explanation:
1. Chris has some personalities, which is Adventurer, Independent,
Friendly, Clever, Ambitious and Idealistic.
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Idealism is a self-faith of something that someone’s believe that it is true, where they will hold their belief really hard and will never be influenced
by other’s response. 3.
Factors thatmakeChristo becomeidealistdivided intotwo;there areinternal factorsand external factors. Internalfactoris afactor that comes
fromhimself, while theexternalfactorisa factorthatcomes from the environment, other peopleandsociety.
4. Internal factor comes from the literary works he read, that the mindset of
Chris is affected based on quotations from figures whose books he read such as, Thoreau, Jack London, and other great figures.
5. External factor comes from his family. Chris assumes his family had lied,
so he cannot trust anything.
Chrisis known to havean interesting personality, butbecause of a conflictthat happened to him, he becomesidealistic. Idealisticpersonalityis notbad, butifit is
wrong inunderstanding andapplication inour life, or even put the ego in it,theidealismcould eventuallyharm us.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction novel, it is adopted from the true story of
Christopher McCandless which is made into a biography by Jon Krakauer. This novel discusses about a young man’s way of life and psychology that fulfilled with
rejection and madness he got from everywhere, with society, especially his family although his family really loved him then chooses to abandon everything that he has
and starts his journey into the wild to fulfill his emotions. From the discussions that have been described in previous chapters, the writer
comes to the conclusion that Christopher McCandless is an idealist. It is one of his personality. His personality divided into several kinds, it is intellect, friendly, brave,
ambitious, independent and idealistic. He is an intellect, where he use a lot of big words when he speak with other people frequently and he also becomes a cumlaude
at his university. He is a kind of sociable and friendly person, he can easily close to the strangers, he never discriminate strangers by their oddity, he can easily enjoy
going with them as long as they are doing nice. His bravery can simply be seen along his journey to everywhere, not many people have that kind of bravery, going
everywhere without any preparation, even when he is still a kid, he wandered in the night to the neighbor’s house just to steal their candy. His ambitious personality
comes along his perseverence in doing everything especially when he want it, not when he need it, that is him, he is simply doing everything when he want it. Not to
dependent to his parents is one of his personality, he is such an independent young
41 man, he dislike when his parent seems to ease his life too much, he love to live his
life by his ability, then when people try to help, they need to ask him first, and he is said to be an idealistic because he measures and wants himself and the people around
him to have a high moral standards, which means besides to be a knowledgeable, a man must respect each other or become a perfect man without blemish as he found
from literary works that he loves to read along his life, he is not fit to live in society because he thought it is hypocrite and they will be well ahead of everyone else but
when in behind, they will come back again as before, too many lies. Thats what made him run away from his comfort life and choose to isolate himself into the wild,
although he must abandon all that he has even his own family, because he thinks if he lives in the society too long, he will live a life of lies.
Then from the previous discussion the writer found that the factors that influence him to be an idealistic one of which is derived from the family and literary
works that he read. It is said that Chris saw a lot of lies going on in the community, and the first lie he saw coming from his own family, where his parents have a
problem, they look good in the eyes of the public even though the household is in mess. Chris is a smart kid who really likes to read, and almost all of the books that he
read are telling about ideas how to live freely and exciting adventures. from the books, he got motivated to become a better human beings and closer to nature, so
that he became an idealist.
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5.2 Suggestion
