Siddhartha Vs. Mccandless Siddhartha And Chris Mccandless

Siddhartha VS. McCandless Every teenager and young adult wants, at least to some degree, to go out and discover themselves. For some people, that means going on extreme adventures of self-discovery. Two such men that go on these types of adventures are Siddhartha and Chris McCandless (aka Alexander Supertramp). While one is fictional and one entirely real, their stories are both very eye opening when it comes to the topic of really living and finding yourself, and the way that these two men did so was both very different, yet very much alike. They are very similar in the way that nature had a very, very important role in both of their lives, as well as in the way that both of their emotional/mental states were not always one hundred percent stable. However, the fact that McCandless had a very inadequate upbringing and had a negative reaction to social life compared to urban life, while Siddhartha had a very commendable upbringing and did not hate society with a burning passion, reall y shows how different these two men really were. While Siddhartha had a fairly happy, positive upbringing (At least, from what we can tell.), McCandless had a very negative one. McCandless had two wealthy parents who were, to the outside eye, near perfect. However, this was only a faà §ade. His parents were simply putting on a mask in front of others so as to hide their real problems. First off, Chris’s father, Walt McCandless, was not indeed faithful to Chris’s mother, Billie McCandless. He had