In the book "Into the Wild" Jon Krakauer dictates the journals of Chris McCandless' journey through the Alaskan Yukon. McCandless met people from all walks of life and often wrote the encounters in his letters and journals. He inspired those people and also grew connections with his passersby. An often topic he would write about is how people could be completely content with conformity and the same old way of life. He believed that his true goal was to go against the grain and live out of the ordinary. McCandless took the initiative to change his life and live on the wild side, because he believed living like everyone else was like cheating who he really was.
McCandless wanted to challenge himself and experience what it truly ment to be alive. He believed that life was a test and he was willing to put all he had into making his life worth something. He wanted to be overwhelmed with the passion of adventure and experiencing new and different things. McCandless even said the encounters and experiences he went through made him out of the ordinary and allowed him to have "a new and different sun" everyday of his life.