YOU DON'T NEED COLLEGE

"Early in his senior year Woodson, Chris informed his parents that he ha no intention of going to college... Chris answered that careers were demeaning "twentieth-century inventions"' (Krakauer 114).

You need college to get a good career

Chris McCandless never really had the same traditional outlook on careers and life as his parents. He found college necessary and careers "demeaning inventions". McCandless wanted to make his own life instead of someone laying it out for him. He wanted to be his own person and really didn't want to conform to society's (and his parents') views on career. That is why he "ran away" and traveled all over the states by himself.