Analysis Of Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

In the book, Into The Wild, a journalist who was known as John Krakauer tells the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, rather known as Alex.

In chapter 7 of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Chris rejects a plane ticket from his employer and partial friend, Wayne Westerberg. “McCandless wouldn’t even consider it.” (67) He said, “‘No, I want to hitch north. Flying would be cheating.

Ever wonder what it would be like to disappear and not talk to anyone around you? Furthermore, go on amazing journeys that will allow you to find yourself and experience life to the fullest. Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, explores that feeling and goes over the story of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old leather tramp, who disappeared and traveled to places like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, and California. The last place he visited was Alaska, a place he’d wanted to go to for a while. While in Alaska, he had quite some trouble and was injured.

Into the Wild by John Krakauer tells the story of Chris McCandless, a man who embarks on a spiritual journey into the Alaskan wilderness and suddenly dies. Krakauer explores Chris's motivations for his journey by examining Chris’s journal and personal documents. Krakauer interviews Chris's family and people Chris met along the way to further understand his personality. The article The beautification of Chris McCandless: From thieving poacher into saint, by Craig Medred depicts Chris as a “bum, poacher, and thief.” Medred criticizes Krakauer’s interpretations of Chris’s journey and Medred believes that Chris has poor intentions throughout his journey.

In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, he goes on to tell a story about a young man’s journey to find himself. Chris Mccandless, is determined to find himself despite that he is not fully prepared in the Alaskan wilderness. The way Krakauer writes Into the Wild is an adventure itself because even though we are fully aware of the ending, he gives a rich story on how Christopher found himself there.

3. Krakauer argues in Chapter 14 that McCandless’s death was unplanned and was a terrible accident (134). Does the book so far support that position? Do you agree with Krakauer? Why or why not?

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is incredibly engaging, captivating, and intriguing. Krakauer conveys an explanation and depiction of the journey of Chris McCandless as he ventures out into the wild with minimal resources, and abandoning almost all ties related to his childhood. Krakauer successfully illustrates the journey with powerful use of diction, structure, and ethos. Although Krakauer created a riveting piece, he tends to be repetitive and confusing information. Overall, he beautifully created a piece that will inspire you to take action towards your wishes.

In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer a passage by Henry David Thoreau, “rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth” was taken to heart by chris McCandless because he wrote “truth” above the passage and in the book chris mentions truth a little throughout his travels because he lives by the word truth, because he believes that's the way to live. Truth is one of the biggest words to live by and consider and i feel chris did a good job to tell people what he means and give them a peice of how he thinks.

Occasionally in a person's life, he or she wonders about a certain purpose in life. In extreme cases, when a person attempts to find one's self, he or she may find his or herself in a dangerous or even deadly position. In Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, Chris McCandless goes out into the wilderness of Alaska to find himself, but he never returns. Jon Krakauer organizes his novel in a circular way, which ties the story together well, and he uses long, periodic sentences to detail and emphasize his points about life and death situations in order to create an aspect of imagery and description throughout the novel.

Krakauer Jon Krakauer blatantly argues that Chris McCandless wasn’t stupid, tragic or inconsiderate in his decisions. Due to the scrutinization and criticism surrounding Chris McCandless, Krakauer uses different examples of individuals who explored, the wild, and did not survive, as well as his own personal experience, to defend McCandless and his actions. In chapter nine, Krakauer underlines his authority and sets himself up to refute McCandless’s detractors. He then establishes familiarity with seperate American men who ventured into the wilderness and did not make it out. The adventurers that are sampled are: Gene Rosellini, John Waterman, and Carl McCunn.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a well-written non-fiction piece about a seemingly fearless man named Chris McCandless who hitchhikes his way to Alaska in order to find his inner peace. While different people have various ideas upon what makes writing good, most would agree that the basic aspects of "good writing" include having a strong voice, being straightforward, and connecting to the reader. Krakauer's unique tone and voice accomplish these main goals and are major factors in what makes this book a success.

In Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild, the main character, Chris McCandless, seeks nature so that he can find a sense of belonging and the true meaning of who he is. However, it is the essence of nature that eventually takes his life away from him. At the end of his life, he is discovers his purpose and need of other people. After Chris McCandless death in Alaska, Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to reflect on the journey that McCandless makes. Krakauer protrays McCandless as a young man who is reckless, selfish, and arrogant, but at the same time, intelligent, determined, independent, and charismatic. Along with the irony that occurs in nature, these characteristics are the several factors that contribute to McCandless death.

Christopher McCandless once said “it’s not important in life to be strong...but to feel strong.” In the book, “Into The Wild” written by Jon Krakauer projected a story of a young man's journey as he discovered himself. This story was about Chris McCandless’ life. It took place throughout the United States, Canada, and Alaska in the years of 1990 - 1992. This book was structured and designed for people who thought McCandless was a suicidal figure. In the text, Krakauer is trying to persuade the reader that McCandless did not intend to end his life, especially the way it came to an end. The narrator, Jon Krakauer tells McCandless’ story in third person perspective. The tone of the book is very touching and sentimental, it is showed by mostly

It was not unexpected that Chris died. Although, it is indeed very disappointing to see that such an inspiring pilgrim did not survive his ¬¬¬inspiring journey. His strong will and his determination to live had saved his life many times such as when kayaking down the Colorado River or when nearly drowning in the Gulf of Mexico (Krakauer 5). It is sad to see that his obsession and craving for the natural world would eventually lead to his death. Innocent mistakes such as eating moldy seeds and not having a map handy killed a great soul. One of his final acts, before his death, was to take a picture of himself where he had spent most of his time under the Alaskan sky, Bus 142. His face looked meager, almost like that of a skeleton, yet he still

All people want from life is to find happiness. We have learn that it’s not as easy as it looks, we have to search for it, maybe not literal but learning to love ourselves. Everyone tries hard enough to get what they desire and work hard for it, but we can’t see what the future holds, so no one knows exactly what might happen. Tragedy can sometimes come when we least expect them while searching for what we believe can bring us peace and satisfaction. We see this in the novel, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer about a young man who is searching for what he believes might give him freedom, he goes on his own journey without knowing the end consequences. The author includes and arranges many features that help better understand why he wrote this