Into The Wild: A Fictional Narrative

In 1990 at the age of 22, Chris McCandless started his journey to travel the country and live off the land alone. He survived well until he hitchhiked to Alaska in 1992. Chris thought that if he could make it there, he could make it anywhere. Four months after going off the grid in the Alaskan wilderness, his decomposed body was discovered by a party of hunters. The nonfiction novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is his story. It has many important themes that define the life of Chris McCandless. A couple themes, for example, are having the feeling of ultimate freedom and seeking happiness through a personal challenge.

Into the Wild is a book about a young man named Chris McCandless and his decision to go off and live in the wild. He decided to walk deep into the Alaskan wilderness and abandon all of his possessions and family. This book is the authors, Jon Krakauer, version of Chris McCandless’ story put together through interviewing and speaking with people who knew Chris as well as by using letters Chris wrote to his loved ones.

An outstanding young man, helped the poor, in high school participated in cross-country, intelligent. He was healthy, he sang and performed instruments. Moreover, all that was mentioned, for Christopher, wasn’t enough. He had still a need; a necessity that required discovering in a way outside the commonplace, the wonders, mysteries and obstacles that nature has with it. Thus one day, Christopher McCandless, a newly graduated college student without preambles got rid of his belongings and money in bank accounts. Without giving even a note of warning to his parents and friends, he simply disappeared from society and no one knew what happened to him. It took a lot of courage, to be willing to leave

Imagine spending thirty days alone in a tent or a cabin in the wilderness with no technology, electricity, running water, and any form of communication. Every day you wake up to the sight of the beautiful, tall trees and the various wildlife living in the area. Most of the time, you can hear the many sounds of nature: the majestic songs of birds, the whistling in the wind, and trees rustling. But sometimes all you can hear is nothing but silence. Most of us would not be able to do this and we would most likely want to be anywhere but here. Not many people will experience living in the wilderness, but for those who have will have memories to treasure forever. Among those people who would choose this

The 9th one is hero’s journey is the atonement with the father. This is the point of the story were the hero wants more power only to discover that is was the dad that had more power. In the book Into The Wild, Alex’s atonement happened when he argues with his dad when he found out that he cheated. In the book Shooting an elephant there is no atonement with father. In the book The Stranger. there is no atonement. In the movie V for Vendetta, The movie never talked about V’s dad. In Assassins Creed 3, Connor’s Father Is the Leader of the templars and Connor is a part of the Brotherhood Of Assassins so they are rivals at heart. But that feud ended in Connor killing his dad in order to liberate the colonies from the templars grip. In Punisher, Punisher didn’t have a dad he was a dad at one point until his kids shot and killed. In Lucky, she has no father in the movie. In Daredevil, Murdoc’s dad was a boxer, he wasn’t the best boxer but it was the thing that gave murdoc a bright future with the money his dad made. Until his dad was killed leaving Murdock blind and a dadless.

In Jon Krakuer'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, Krakuer wrote Into the Wild to reflect on the journey that McCandless makes. Krakuer 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.

The novel Into the Wild is a nonfiction novel published by Jon Krakauer who investigated the life and death of a free spirited individual named Christopher McCandless. McCandless was a recent Emory University graduate who sought to suck the marrow out of life through an independent experience in nature and purposely sought to this experience in the rawest form of supplies. He was found dead in August of 1992 in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness. For the sake of his journey, he purposely didn't bring an adequate amount of food or supplies.   Consequently, those who read of his actions wonder what evoked him to live the way he

Once an individual dies, his true intentions and feelings can never be known. People can speculate all they want, but unless they have had similar experiences as the individual, they must refrain all judgments. In the nonfiction work Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, many readers have harshly judged the main character, Chris McCandless, as stupid and thoughtless for his dangerous and ultimately fatal adventure in the raw wilderness of Alaska; many have even said he had been suicidal. The author attempts to display Chris as a human being with meaningful intentions and emotional yearning rather than just a stereotypical, reckless vagabond by using his own story as a similar experience to Chris’, so readers can begin to understand Chris from a

Transcendentalism is an extremely difficult philosophy to truly understand and even more difficult follow and apply to everyday life. Chris McCandless, from the movie Into the Wild, goes on a long journey after college attempting to live freely by the principles of Transcendentalist philosophers such as Emerson and Thoreau. Chris attempts to live happily, but what matters is whether or not Chris believes that his life was successful at the time of his death. He tries to find happiness within himself and discover truths in the world and in his own life. Chris McCandless does follow the ideas of Emerson and Thoreau because he abandons his family and possessions and gives up his potential success in order to discover truth and find happiness. His pursuit of these ideals teaches that transcendentalism is not a practical philosophy because Chris fails to find happiness through these ideas.

Into the Wild is an adventure to be remembered, and shows how the wild shaped and influenced Chris’s life. Jon Krakauer writes the story on the adventure of Chris, and he shows how happiness is felt when shared together. The author Jon Krakauer is also the narrator in the book, and he investigates the people who knew Chris.

The forest gave me a peculiar feeling as I entered. This was because there were no forest animals making noise or motion. But, I continued on walking. As, I was walking I noticed a silhouette appear across a tree. The silhouette

THe book starts when billy sees down the street a wild dog fight and sees that other dogs re ganging up on a red bone hound. After billy saves the do he takes the dog home to take care of the dogs injures and then he has a flashback whenhe had 2 red bone hounds. He remembers how the dogs affected him for the best when he won the dog show and also won the hunting contest. He also has the memori of when his dog died and could not understand why his dog died. "If he gave them to me, then why did he take them away?' I asked. 'Billy, your mother and i had decided not to seperate you from your dogs. we knew how much you loved them. We decided that when we moved to town we'd leave you here with your grandpa for a while. He needs help anyways. BUt

Into the Wild by John Krakauer is a nonfiction book, later adapted into a movie in 2007 when I was about eight years old. Admittedly, I was most likely watching Sponge Bob at the time of its movie release. My high school Religion Teacher Mr. Towell gave us a writing assignment for us to watch the movie Into the Wild and answer some thought-provoking questions. My mother had read the book back in the nineties and encouraged me to read the book before watching the movie. Thanks to both of these people, this book is one of my favorites.

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