Analysis Of Into Thin Air, By Jon Krakauer

[7] In his book, “Missoula,” John Krakauer analyses the issue of rape in the college town of Missoula. Krakauer begins his work by quoting the article False Allegations of Sexual Assault:

The author skillfully uses literary techniques to convey his purpose of giving life to a man on an extraordinary path that led to his eventual demise and truthfully telling the somber story of Christopher McCandless. Krakauer enhances the story by using irony to establish Chris’s unique personality. The author also uses Characterization the give details about Chris’s lifestyle and his choices that affect his journey. Another literary element Krakauer uses is theme. The many themes in the story attract a diverse audience. Krakauer’s telling is world famous for being the truest, and most heart-felt account of Christopher McCandless’s life. The use of literary techniques including irony, characterization and theme help convey the authors

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.

Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air has shown me different aspects of survival, differentiating from the ones on T.V or fictional books. It has made me realize that not all good guys live, not all bad guys die. It has changed the way I look at things, for better and worse. And now that, having established what Krakauer’s story has meant to me, comes a time post-epilogue to his book to think and reflect on a simple question: What does Into Thin Air mean to

Throughout his novel Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer’s own perspectives shape the way he tells the story of Chris McCandless. Krakauer’s writing style allows for varying interpretations of the primary motivations of his protagonist, ranging from sympathizing with Chris to perceiving him as selfish. This is especially evident when Krakauer describes an interview with Walt McCandless about his son’s death seven weeks after Chris’ body was found. However, various interpretations of Krakauer’s work can lead to differing points of view on the subject. While Krakauer’s description of Walt’s emotional reaction to his son’s death could indicate Chris’ selfishness in abandoning his family, it could also serve to justify Chris’ decision to embark on his journey into the Alaskan wilderness.

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.

Chris McCandless, the subject of Jon Krakauer's“Into The Wild,” whose off-the-grid Alaskan adventure ended in starvation is a hero and an idealist whose sense of independence and adventure inspires us to reach for our dreams. McCandless was a courageous man. He wanted to live a life that was completely different than the one his parents lead. And wanted to submerge himself in the world that we live in and be sequestered from people who take it for granted. However, most students see McCandless as a foolish vagabond whose story should be wrong and not an inspiration, arguing that too many people underrate the dangers of nature. Coming to Alaska and dying because of their ignorance.Chris McCandless followed through with his goals and never

Multiple accounts assumed McCandless was “entering the wilderness purposely ill-prepared…” and “hardly unique…almost a collective cliché” (Krakauer 71). Krakauer refutes this claim by displaying evidence supporting his argument while also acknowledging counter claims that McCandless was rash, foolhardy, but stressing he was definitely competent (85). Krakauer compares and contrasts the journeys of Rosellini, Waterman, and McCunn to that of McCandless defending that McCandless was not incapable or oblivious to survive in Alaska. Later parallels between McCandless and Ruess demonstrate their desires to become connected to nature and strong determination.

As human beings, do we make our own decisions or do we allow others to make them for us? Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, analyzes Chris McCandless’s ability to do so. His purpose is to inform the reader of McCandless’s choices and how they led to his death. Mr. Krakauer concentrates on the individuality, death and dreams McCandless to bestow emotion to his readers.

Many people can agree that the chances one does not take will be regretted at the end. In the novel, Into the Wild, author John Krakauer describes Chris McCandless as he ventures into the Alaskan wilderness. Chris McCandless was the type of person that could be described in many ways. The main reason for his journey was to “prove to himself that he could make it on his own, without anybody else’s help”(159). Chris McCandless is a distinct character that takes chances without giving the importance of the consequences of his actions.

In the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer; Chris McCandless choose a life on the road which is a poor choice. It was poor choice because life on the road has many disadvantages such as. One of the disadvantages of living off the grid is no hunting skills. “Alex’s cheap leather hiking boots were neither waterproof nor well insulated his rifle was only .22 caliber” (KraKauer 5).

Lopsang Jangbu was clearly downsized by Jon Krakauer in his article “Into thin Air” and Lopsang quite frankly did the right things on the Everest expedition on 1996. Lopsang did not deserve the accusations and the accusations presented by Krakauer.

Can’t get no satisfaction… or can he? In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer Chris would have been satisfied if he had the opportunity to rejoin society. Chris was ready to spread his experiences to others. Chris writes, “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED,” in the book Doctor Zhivago soon after he got back to the bus following when he to leave the bush (Krakauer 189).

In the letter reciprocating to John Krakauer, Anatoli Boukreev disputes the topic of his actions whilst guiding a group of amateurs on Mount Everest expedition. He argues that John Krakauer doesn’t have enough experience from summiting as Boukreev has. He proposes his stance on the decisions and the kind of actions that had taken place and enforces the specific purposes for doing so. Boukreev believes that what he did wasn’t so bad, because Krakauer had said he was very unprepared to do a summit like Everest because he didn’t have an oxygen tank to use. But Boukreev rebuttals saying that he had done enough summits to not use an oxygen supplement because of how adapted he is to it. He then on explains his rebuttals; as for that he waited

In the book Into the Wild written by John Krakauer, Chris McCandless plans to abandon his life and live off the land, traveling from South Dakota all the way to Las Vegas and many other remote locations in the U.S. There was something inside of Chris that drew him into the wilderness. In May of 1990, Chris took off, abandoning everything and everyone and set off into the wild, where he had big plans for his next two years. In the summer of 1992, Chris McCandless turned up dead in Alaska. A series of unfortunate events led to his death. Even though things didn’t turn out how Chris planned, he achieved everything he wanted. Ever since he was young, he had a passion that could only be attained by leaving everything behind and living off of