Analysis Of The Book ' 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 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.

Chris McCandless was just a victim of his own obsession. The novel "Into The Wild" written by John Krakauer revealed the life of a young bright man named Chris McCandless who turned up dead in Alaska in summer 1992. In the novel, John Krakauer approached carefully McCandless's life without putting too much authorial judgment to the readers. Although Chris McCandless remained an elusive figure throughout the novel, I can see Chris McCandless as a dreamy young idealist who tries to follow his dream but failed because of his innocent mistake which prove to be fatal and irreversible. Still, Chris McCandless's courage and passion was something that we should all be proud of.

To say that Krakauer does have a bias towards McCandless is a rather obvious statement and something known to the reader from the author’s note. “My convictions should be apparent soon enough, but I will leave it to the reader to form his or her own opinion.” Yet despite a personal bias Krakauer has towards McCandless he keeps his promise to the reader and serves as an impartial enough biographer to allow the reader to form their own opinions. By interviewing both those who knew Chris or Alexander Supertramp on his journey to the last frontier and Alaskan locals, Krakauer steps to the side and lets others give their thoughts or memories as well as criticisms of the man who met his fate in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer does interfere with Chris/Alex’s story at one point in order

"'Didn't like to be around too many people, though. Temperamental. He meant good, but I think he had a lot of complexes-know what I'm saying? Liked to read books by that Alaska guy, Jack London. Never said much. He'd get moody, wouldn't like to be bothered. Seemed like a kid who was looking for something, looking for something, just didn't know what it was'" (Krakauer 42).

Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India once said, “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if we seek them with our eyes open” (Nehru). In the book Into the Wild Jon Krakauer introduces the reader to Christopher McCandless’s, a young man from California with a heart yearning for adventure and a head beyond his years. The reader learns there is no one quite like Chris McCandless, but many people have sought out to seek the “more” from life. Jon Krakauer uses pathos and quirky but also thrilling anecdotes throughout Into the Wild to separate how Chris McCandless perceived himself and how others perceived him.

“On the northern margin of the Alaska Range, just before the hulking ramparts of Mt. McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed”(Krakauer 9). Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is true story based around Chris Mccandless. Chris ultimilty left normal society and everything he owned to go on a road trip around the country and end up in Alaska. Here in Alaska he meet his end in the harsh winter. In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless believes that self-reliance is key to survival, while Ralph Waldo Emerson also believes this based on his work “Self-Reliance”.

Jon Krakauer, released a nonfiction novel in the winter of January 1996, he created a book that told the true story about a young man of the age 24 by the name of Christopher Johnson McCandless. The book clutches that young man’s family lives and conceives to his parents, Billie and Walt McCandless and also his sister Carine, that Christopher’s life was of great significance and was very much appreciated, it also lays a footprint in the lives that McCandless had met before he also met his untimely demise. Krakauer’s ultimate purpose of constructing the book, Into the Wild was to determine what exactly happened to Christopher McCandless on the Stampede Trail. Krakauer set out to discover Christopher’s exact, precise motive on why he truly decided

“On the northern margin of the Alaska Range, just before the hulking ramparts of Mt. McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed” (Krakauer 9). In Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless believes self reliance in key aspects by surviving in the wild, while Emerson also believes in this aspect.

In the beginning of the chapter the reader observes a postcard. Analyze the effect this postcard

In the book Into the wild by Jon Krakauer he describes how a young man named Chris McCandless life was before and during he had entered the wild. Discuss all the types of issues he had going on in his life. Such as his dad living a double life, also his toxic relationship with his parents. Although it may be true that he has had a bad relationship with his father after a while, people should consider that that may not be the only thing McCandless going on? Maybe he had some personal issues he had to deal with and didn't really know how to tell his family that could have lead into mental illness.

In the first Chapter of the book, Jon Krakauer introduces a postcard from Alex to Wayne Westerberg. Although the reader does not exactly know who Westerberg is, it is known that he is someone Alex admires writing to, “I want you to know you’re a great man.” This contrasts with what Alex tells Jim Gallien about not speaking to his family in two years. Gallien, the last person to see Alex alive, felt that the hitchhiker was unprepared for the rigors of the wild and offered him supplies and his phone number in case of an emergency. This epigraph sets up the curiosity about how Alex died, and why he changes his name. Finally, in the postcard Alex knew that his Alaskan journey could endanger his life but he went anyway.

Into The Wild is a biography by Jon Krakauer. the Wild is a novel about a man named Chris McCandless. Chris is not the average person, he strives to be abnormal and live in different ways. He decides to live in Alaska within the wilderness, for months with little to know supplies. Though he dies , that didn’t matter, what did matter is that he died doing what he loved.

In the novel Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris had a mind set to achieve the impossible. Hitchhiking Alaska is hard enough if a person has the right gear and supplies. Chris leaves everything behind, including his car, money, and most of his possessions. Some people think this behavior is brave and courageous. Others would think that Chris is dumb and ignorant for leaving his family and all of his personal belongings. Chris is a fool for hitchhiking Alaska with no gear, supplies, money, or personal belongings.

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