Analysis Of Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

In 1990 Chris graduated from Emory University with a 3.7 GPA and had a degree in anthropology. He was and honors student at Emory University (Krakauer 20). This relates to his identity because Chris believes that education was key for him as a child and it is an important part in your life journey to receive a degree. However, some might say that Chris did not use his degree at all and is not wise for making that decision instead of getting a job based on his degree. Chris takes many adventures when he is on his journey such as when he goes kayaking in Mexico. Chris loves the outdoors and thought his bond with nature was strong (Krakauer 32-35). His adventures contribute to his identity because he believes that he should be at peace with nature and be able to live in the outdoors. However, some might say that he is a hypocrite because while in Alaska he killed a Moose (Krakauer 166). When Chris leaves his family he wants to go into Alaska and live a life of his own. All of his other stops are part of his journey as well. He goes into Mexico, The Detrital Wash, and he goes to Carthage (Krakauer 32, 62, 28-29). All of these actions contribute to his belief in independence. Chris believes that he should be able to live life how he wants and values his independence greatly throughout the book. Chris McCandless constructs identity along his journey through his values and

In the author's notes he put “Through most of the book, I have tried--and largely succeeded, I think to--to minimize my authorial presence. But let the reader be warned: I interrupt McCandless’s story with fragments of a narrative drawn from my own youth. I do so in the hope that my experiences will throw some oblique light on the enigma of Chris McCandless”(Krakauer 2). By telling us that he will add some stories of his own make us realize that Krakauer has some relation with McCandless and it make us think that this book is more believable. In the book when he tells us that Chris just died for a simple mistake and tries to relate it to himself by telling the story of how he started to realized that going into the wilderness will change his life he emphasizes“I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand. I decide, moreover, to do it alone. ” Just like McCandless, Krakauer had a lot in common with him, they both went into the wild of Alaska, which gives a lot of experience to krakauer to talk about McCandless death. In order for Krakauer to make McCandless not a crazy kid he made some other similarities between McCandless and some other people that died, with a lot of characteristics similar to McCandless and himself. Krakauer is the ideal person to criticate

Krakauer wrote this book to show people that Chris McCandless was similar to everyone and that we should respect what people think, Krakauer argues “My suspicion that McCandless's death was unplanned, that it was a terrible accident, comes from reading those few documents he left behind and from listening to the men and women who spent time with him over the final year of his life” (Krakauer 134).Krakauer is trying to persuade people into thinking that McCandless was actually like any regular kid and he tries to tell this to the people that thought that McCandless was a stubborn kid. While Krakauer was writing the book he put a counter argument against the Alaskans and clarified why it's not true. After Krakauer wrote the article and published it, he got negative comments, some of them argued“Alex is a nut in my book” … why would any son cause his parents and

One of Chris’ interests is South Dakota where he lived with Wayne Westerberg and where he worked at the grain elevator. Chris loved the town in which he lived a lot. In the novel Chris’ feelings for Carthage, South Dakota were enamorous. In the book Chris explains why he loved Carthage so much, “He liked the community’s status, it plebeian virtues and unassuming mien” (Krakauer 18). Throughout the book chapters begin with a quote or saying from different authors that Chris believes that matches his personality; each chapter is a different quote

However Krakauer adds his own opinion subtly throughout the book which sways the readers own opinion to make him appear to be brave and less reckless. Towards the end of his journey he took a final picture. “Because he was so young, because he was alone, because his body had betrayed him and his will let him down—it’s not apparent from the photograph. He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.” He adds his own opinion on Chris’s feelings and defends his pain that he was truly feeling behind his appearance in the

Krakauer develops the parallel between McCandless and other young men in eerily similar situation. The author might do this to enrich Chris's story. All the author writes about Chris is based on testimonies and documents. We don't know with certainty what Chris's thought process. By introducing the stories of Gene Rosellini, and Ruess Everett, the readers are able to put the different pieces together and infer Chris' state of mind and motivations.

Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into the Wild, is an insightful nonfiction story about a young man named Christopher McCandless and his wonderful journey cross country, all the way from Virginia to his final destination in Alaska. Throughout the novel Chris McCandless creates the name Alexander Supertramp, mostly because his trip was about reinventing himself and completing one of his lifelong dreams. The novel begins with the situation in which random bystanders who are hiking or hunting, find Christopher McCandless’s body in an abandoned bus in Fairbanks, Alaska and everything else that follows in the novel is the details about his traveling through multiple states. Even though the novel tells you exactly how Chris’ adventure ends, the reader is still compelled to read all the details about his experience because of how the author tells his story in such a captivating way. Although Chris did go to college, he spent every spare moment on breaks from school taking long road trips in yellow Datsun, which was in a way, his first taste of escaping society. Chris lived his last years on earth without being restrained by society and without really having to worry about needing money for everything he wanted to do in life. Chris still needed money during his adventures so for months at a time, twice during his journey, he would work at Wayne Westerberg’s, one of his close friends, grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota and also briefly ends up working at a McDonalds in Bullhead

Many readers may view Chris, or Alex, as an individual who deems reproachable in terms of his drive to endure the wild, and live solely off of the land. However, they are unaware of the prohibitive memoir Chris retains in relation to his family. Krakauer strives to accomplish an “indirect” insinuation to the reader that Chris upheld a non-healthy relationship with his first hand relatives, and that his irrational behavior was acted upon this occurrence. This coherently leads to Krakauer’s indirect characterization of Christopher as that of enigmatic and unsubstantiated in terms of mental competence. In accumulation, it illustrates that other individuals, such as Krakauer or his readers, renowned that the assertiveness in which he alleged in was not so representative of a

Although he died, Chris wasn’t like the others according to Krakauer. Chris was well educated and could have had all the success; but, because he was fed up with society and materialistic things he decided to go a different path and into the wild. McCandless thought that the only way to experience life was to get away from everything and be in touch with nature so, that's what he did. Krakauer compares Chris to others who have gone through the similar situation of going into the wild. McCandless was “Like Rosellini and Waterman, McCandless was a seeker and had an impractical fascination with the harsh side of nature. Like Waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense. But unlike Waterman, McCandless wasn’t mentally ill. And unlike McCunn, he didn’t go into the bush assuming someone would automatically appear to save his bacon before he came to grief.”(Krakauer). Throughout the story it also seems like Krakauer kind of sees himself through McCandless because it gives himself something to compare

He believes that Chris died because of an accident, it was unplanned. Mr. Krakauer showed that even if you attempt a high risk activity you are able to survive like he survived the Devils Thumb. His reason was, “My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scattershot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works if Nietzsche, Kerouac, and John Edward”. His reason was nowhere the same compared to Chris. This story shows us how Chris was intelligent and just wanted to adventure.

In the beginning of the chapters, the Krakauer includes excerpts from different books a newspaper articles sometimes read by McCandless himself. In the beginning of Chapter Twelve (117) there is an excerpt from a book written by Henry David Thoreau read and annotated by McCandless. He also read and annotated part of a book by Leo Tolstoy (15), another very sophisticated author. A person who is crazy, would most likely not be reading a very complicated author like Thoreau and Tolstoy.

Krakauer writes that he believed himself to be a lot like Chris in some aspects. He presents Chris throughout the book in a positive way but also fairly includes statements from other people who do not share his same opinion about Chris. Krakauer writes that Chris “wasn’t incompetent” (Krakauer 52). He believed that Chris would not have made it for as long as he did if he was incompetent. Like Timothy, Chris appealed to transcendentalism and Chris was huge on not wanting to have materialistic things, however, he was smart enough to know that he had to get a job and earn money in order to make it on his journey to Alaska to find a deeper connection in nature. A lot of people wrote that Chris had touched their lives and that they would always remember him, but not everyone felt that way. Krakauer even wrote that some people heaped harsh criticism on him for “glorifying what some thought was a foolish, pointless death.” (Krakauer 50). Others said that Chris was stupid and that if he would’ve survived he would have just been lucky and it would not have made him a better human. Because Krakauer included these opinions even though he disagreed, he was honest and fair in how he portrayed Chris

Why does Krakauer share his own personal experience? How does this chapter add to the reader’s understanding of the larger themes of the book? A: Krakauer shares his own experience to show he went into the wilderness as well. Jon and Chris were similar they both had issues with their dad and both got away from it with, literally, going into the wild.

The story Into the Wild by "Jon Krakauer" is about a male that lives out in the wild by himself. In this story he has to find his own sources of food out in the wild so he could survive. First I am going to tell you about his journey but while I tell you about Chris's journey I am going to tell you all the risk's he took on the way to Alaska. In the Story Into the Wild "Christopher McCandless" he was traveling the world on foot hitchhiking to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt.Mckinley. On this journey he had to provide food for him self to survive different shelter every night and a way to wash his clothes.

In this novel, Krakauer uses journal entries, and letters written by McCandless, as well as interviews of his family, friends, and authorizes to piece together the life, and death of Chris McCandless. Krakauer uses his journalistic writing style to include stories of ordinary people who encounter McCandless on his journey across the western United States. Understanding this novel is difficult due to its lack of chronological order. In the beginning, it starts off with the last day Chris is seen alive and picked up by Jim Gallien, which is then followed by the discovery of Chris’s body inside the bus in a blue sleeping bag that his mother made for him. Following this, Krakauer visits McCandless’ final years, and includes stories of other adventurers