Happiness Shared: How Chris McCandless Grew Wise Through Suffering

by Brandon R. Burdette

The 2007 film “Into the Wild” was watered down, out of order, and quite fictional. “Happiness How Chris McCandless Grew Wise Through Suffering” is a systematic analysis, and commentary on, McCandless’ known journal-entries. His journal-entries reveal a rebel and a fanatic who was against the world. McCandless was driven by his problems, and had a death wish. He deserves to be presented in a way which instructs through the examination of his flaws, and glorifies his change of heart. He is the very symbol of the angry man, the man filled with hatred and resentment, who learns by his own mistakes to forgive, and to love. At the time of his death, McCandless held proper views of God, sensory experience, himself, other people, society, and nature. His story is a great tribute to the truth that contentment and freedom are matters of the mind, and not of one’s physical surroundings or circumstances.

54 pages, Paperback

Published July 19, 2018