Into The Wild

Until, when he finally decided that it was time to escape society, and start living independently, to find out exactly who he was. “Hey, Guys! This is the last communication you shall receive from me. I now walk out to live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you. ALEXANDER” (Krakauer, 69). The day Chris said those words he was finally living his own life, instead of the life his parents gave him. He was proud to walk out of the life he didn’t want anymore and live the life that he always wanted to live. Besides Chris living his own life instead of his parents, he also lived to find his inner self.

As soon as I picked this book up, I could not put it down. Every chance I got, I was reading. I was begging in class for you to let us have down time so I could submerge myself into this virtual reality that I wanted to experience. Unfortunately at the end of this memoir, Chris McCandless dies of what Krakauer believes to be starvation. The cool thing about how Krakauer revised this novel is how he relates it to all teenagers. At one point in time mostly all teenagers have a fight with their parents and they feel as if running away from it all is their only escape. He focuses on Chirs McCandless’ life so much to create the theme that no matter how much you fight and argue, your parents love you and they want the best for you no matter what.

Where The Wild Things Are: Max’s Façade Where the Wild Things Are, written by Maurice Sendak, focuses on young Max, a mischievous and imaginative boy who creates a fictitious world in search of a place that will accept his wild behavior. This picture book became extremely popular and intriguing when it was published in 1963. Ironically enough, this children’s book is not made for children. This book questions children’s behaviors and leaves the analyzing for the adults.

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.

In the book Into the Wild, We learn about Chris McCandless who wanted to set off on a journey Into the Wild. Chris was a smart young man and decided to set out for his own life seeking adventure after he graduated college. On the road Chris would write about his experiences and the things he thought about while being alone or in nature. To connect the reader with the text more and to understand the theme, Krakauer added epigraphs from other pieces of writing to the beginning of every chapter. In the book the epigraphs before every chapter relate to that certain chapter and helps add more tone to the story. Also the epigraphs can help set the mood of the chapter and both the content and style of the novel.

“A Lesson Before Dying” and “Into The Wild” are both books that defy the expected, tackle tough obstacles, and face the physical and mental extremes of life. Beginning with “Into The Wild”, Jon Krakauer leads us on a rich and insightful tour through the brash and lucid life of Chris McCandless. Followed by a well thought out, fiction novel featuring a sticky situation in a small Cajun community, “A Lesson Before Dying”, by Ernest J. Gaines. This split, self chosen, mini series takes us through a roller coaster of comparisons and contrasts, leading with the first noticeable major difference.

Throughout history, people encounter a stage in their lives where they feel the necessity to assert their independence and challenge their abilities and self-worth. In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the author shares his understanding and kinship with the main character, Chris McCandless, a young man who thrusts himself into a life of solitude and a harsh environment during his search for meaning to his life. Krakauer depicts himself and McCandless as modern day transcendentalists with an abundance of competency, resourcefulness and skills as naturalists. Although McCandless chose to experience a life of solitude and face the hazards that nature presents, his lack of preparedness prevented him from completing his endeavor successfully.

Chris is a charismatic young man, but takes extensive measures to ensure he does not become too close with anyone. By going out into the wild without so much as a letter to his parents,

How many times has Hollywood taken a true story and turned it into something different? Hollywood took Chris McCandless’s story and turned it into an overdramatic work of art. Unlike Krakauer’s nonfiction best seller Into the Wild, the movie Into the Wild by Sean Penn overemphasizes ideas or fails to include crucial evidence which twists the viewers understanding of Chris McCandless’s life. The movie overemphasizes Chris’s parents’ relationship and the effect it has on him, creates a love interest for him in “Slab City”, and fails to mention Chris’s knowledge of the wild. Sean Penn’s film skews how people will remember Chris

Although Chris McCandless’ controlling and toxic family environment was a major motive for his escape, his deep-seated internal battle was simply an irresistible impulse for discovery and liberty. Chris’ journey shows a new level of freedom; what true independence holds. He set out into nature alone without support of family or friends, searching for a path unlike those of most, and running from a barred cage of conventional living. Unsatisfied and somewhat angry with himself and his life of abundance in money, opportunity, and security, his preceding experiences and determined character lead him to an inevitable flee into no-mans land. Throughout the novel, Krakauer wants the reader to understand that there is more to Chris than his habit of criticising authority and defying society’s pressures. He needed more from himself, and more from life. He wasn’t an ordinary man, therefore could not live with an ordinary life. Krakauer demonstrates this by creating a complex persona for Chris that draws you in from the beginning.

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

For my non-fiction choice book, I chose to read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Krakauer does a fine job in this book, but I feel some things were left unfinished. To me, this seems more of a draft than a published book. He would begin to talk about a topic, but then wouldn't be addressed at the end as I would have expected. This is seen in Chris’s relationship with Jan Burres. She enjoys his presence and said that “Alex was a great kid” (Krakauer 46). He writes the letters to her as seen in the book, and stays with her for a while, but her feelings are not seen in the aftermath. If I were to write this book, I would touch back to the people he met to give the reader more closure. Next, I think the book didn't need to be as long as it was because

Although the book doesn’t follow the chronological order of the exact events that took place either, it does it in a different way than the movie. In contrast to the film, we learn about Chris McCandless in the same order as the writer, John Krakauer, did himself. Krakauer starts the book with a tone of hopelessness that is not shared in the movie. In the beginning, Krakauer, and Chris’s parents visit the bus where their son’s dead body was discovered. The movie is all from Chris’s perspective, and the book is a pieced together look at Chris through the eyes of his family, mainly his sister, friends he made along the way and pretty much any other outsider with an opinion on Chris’s life and death.

Where the Wild Things Are, is a classic picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, won the Caldecott Medal as the most distinguished American picture book in 1964. The book for children 5-9 years old. The plot of the book is based on the fantasy and real consequences of a little boy's mischief. After more than 50 years Where the Wild Things Are is a well-known, well-loved children’s book. “Children can connect to the book on a personal level – they have all “made mischief”, been punished for it, and experienced the same emotions as Max when they didn’t get the desired reaction.

In life people know that moving around without a car is a huge inconvenience to that person. People also know that not having a car to move around easier can put strain on peoples loved ones. Not having a car is not necessarily bad its knowing how to get around without a car is the enigma. However, it is certainly not impossible to move about in daily life especially with todays technology and certain services people are now able to have ways of getting around their area if they do not have a car. People will learn how to survive without a car by planning for alternative options, knowing the location, and setting up a routine on what type of commute one might take.