First Chapter Of Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

The young, Chris McCandless brought to life in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is admired immensely for his courage and noble ideas carried out his dream of living in Alaska for as long as he could. Some would say that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, or a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, others would say that he was an admirable hero. The truth lies in his motives which were to face the raw challenges of life on his own. Chris McCandless was a brave soul who chose to challenge life in real terms in order to test his personal boundaries against nature.

--These words gives a clear and rational explanation of McCandless’s decision to venture into the wilderness. It shows that he was allured to the wild journey because of the pleasure it would provide him, tempted by a primal desire that could not be fulfilled by a mere human.

The novel “Into the Wild”, by Jon Krakauer, is an excruciating story about a young man facing off against the dangers of nature. The main protagonist, Chris McCandless faced off against many internal and external obstacles that stood in his way of achieving his goal of successfully surviving on his own in the wilderness of North America. McCandless clashed with many lethal and perilous obstacles as he travelled all the way across the continent. The challenges he faced varied from surviving in the harsh wilderness, the difficulties of young manhood, and also the challenge of person versus society.

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.

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.

In his work “Into The Wild”, Jon Krakauer writes about a young man who escaped on an expedition to invent a new life for himself. However, the reasons why he decides to partake on such journey raises many questions because Christopher McCandless lives a life of valuable possessions which his rejection of his economic class to disperse in a cultural background of nature steers Krakauer decision to report his story. Krakauer believes that a young man with a great amount of opportunities must have a logical reasons to abandon all the achievements and most importantly his family to live in the Wilderness. Although, Krakauer intends to portray McCandless as a genius of his choices and ethical to his ideas, as the book unfolds Krakauer

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.

In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer portrays a story of Chris McCandless and his journey to create a new life for himself though isolation and self determination. While connecting momentarily with people McCandless meets on his expedition, he is determined to cut off all connection with his family and previous life, to create a new one through his own actions. Krakauer depicts McCandless’ yearn for isolationism in relation to his excursion through specific utilization of rhetorical devices throughout his book.

Jon Krakauer's novel, Into the Wild, relates a true story of a young man named Christopher McCandless and his remarkable but fatal journey to discover contentment in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer wrote a magazine article about McCandless in 1993 and became obsessed with discovering more about the young boy and his death. With his novel, he shares the story of McCandless and hopes to ignite the same interest in his readers as he developed when he first heard of the boy’s enthralling story. He hopes to enlighten his readers’ views on how happiness can be achieved and spread McCandless’s insatiable desire for adventure to young people today who are seeking the meaning of life and the joy that comes along with it. Krakauer’s eloquent writing and candid tone make Into the Wild an authentic, effective tribute to the life of Christopher McCandless.

“Alex insisted on giving Gallien his watch, his comb, and what he said was all his money: eighty-five cents in loose change. ‘I don’t want your money,’ Gallien protested, ‘and I already have a watch’. ‘If you don’t take it, I’m going to throw it away,’ Alex cheerfully retorted. ‘I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters’” (Krakauer 7). Alex was doing this because he wanted to pay off Gallien for the ride and to give all his stuff away, because he doesn’t need where he is going. He is also throwing these items away because he doesn’t want any help out in the wild and he wants to survive all by himself. “Gallien offered to drive Alex all the way to Anchorage, buy him some decent gear, and then drive him back to wherever he wanted to go. ‘No, thanks anyway,’ Alex replied, ‘I’ll be fine with what I’ve got.’ Gallien asked whether he had a hunting license. ‘Hell no’ Alex scoffed. ‘How I feed myself is none of the government’s business. Fuck their stupid rules’” (Krakauer 6). Once again, Alex was doing this because he thought that he would be fine with just using his own resources and surviving on his own and no one getting into his business to interfere

In John Krakauer’s “Into the Wild,” Chris McCandless set out on an odyssey into the American wilderness, and eventually the Alaskan bush, in the 1990s. Throughout McCandless’s journey, he reflected on himself and on society through books, written by authors who advocated a free-willed lifestyle. In some of the books he read, McCandless highlighted passages he believed to be noteworthy. Most, if not all, of these passages reflected his life, specifically his adventure, in its many aspects. These excerpts include Leo Tolstoy’s “Family Happiness,” Henry David Thoreau’s “Life in the Woods,” and Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago.” The passages accurately define Chris McCandless’s character, philosophy, and journey through all 3 of the authors’

outside of Fairbanks, a truck driver picks up a hitchhiker on the side of the road named Alex. Alex tells the truck driver that he is from South Dakota and he wants a ride to Denali National Park. Alex tells the truck driver Gallien who's an electrician that he wants to "walk deep into the bush and live off the land for a few months". Gallien thought Alex was a "delusional visitor to the Alaskan frontier". During their two-hour drive, Gallien thinks that Alex is intelligent and thoughtful. Gallien notices that Alex doesn't have the equipment to live in the wilderness for several months. Gallien tries his best to try and convince Alex mind, but Alex doesn't listen. Alex plans on following the Stampede Trail, a trail that is an unmarked route

In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, we follow a man named Christopher McCandless, also known as Alex, on his journey and downfall of traveling in the Alaskan wilderness. During the time before his trip to the Alaskan wilderness, Alex came across many people on this journey. These people told their experiences with Alex in interviews and told about how much Alex had influenced them. This interview showed us a better look at what personality Alex had. Alex was shown to be especially dependable, intelligent, temperamental, and many more traits. With examples of these experiences, as interviewed, of the people he encountered on this adventure can show these personality traits are an important part of Alex’s character.

This epigraph relates to transcendentalism by showcasing the way that McCandless was so completely driven to go to Alaska, and live off of nature, and to leave everything

After graduating from college McCandless, the protagonist in Penn’s Into the Wild, donates all his savings to charity, burns all of the money he has and goes on a journey into the wilderness, removing himself from society. He suggests that the wild will kill the disciplines that have been instilled within him, what he refers to as: “the false being within” and being ‘poisoned by civilization’. He feels