An inspiration at a cost?

An inspiration, at a cost?

“Seven weeks after the body of his son turned up in Alaska wrapped in a blue sleeping bag that Billie had sewn for Chris from a kit, Walt studies a sailboat scudding beneath the window of his waterfront townhouse. ‘How is it,’ he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, ‘that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?’" (Krakauer 103-104).

Prompt: Fool or Inspiration?

Everyone is destined to do something great in life, whether they believe they are, or not. By doing great things in life, they move others to do great things themselves.  McCandless was a very compassionate and real person, he embarked on a two year quest to get away from his belief that the American society was greedy, selfish and unjust. He was an inspiration because of this, but it came at the cost. McCandless cut himself off from his family. Krakauer continuously thorough out the book try to figure out why he did it? Why did a caring, loving person cut off his family and never talk to them, only to die and actually never talk to them again.