Into The Wild Rhetorical Analysis

First, Chris’s arrogance and ignorance is showed in his role in society. In chapter 12, when Chris’s college dorm is described, “Bare, spartan room furnished

In May of 1998, Kipland Kinkel brought a gun to his school. Over the course of two days this escalated from: being sent home, to murdering his father and mother, to murdering 2 students and wounding 26, earning a lifetime sentence of 111 years and 8 months in prison. In the court case being examined, the presiding judge addresses the original case, defendants ground for appeal, and the justification for the State’s decision to deny the appeal. Judge Haselton effectively uses ethos, logos, and pathos to support the Higher Court’s decision to deny the appeal because the original sentence was constitutional and just.

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,

hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ashes and smoke” (P. 29). Chris

The article states that fear has become a huge deal ever since the presidential elections divided the nation. The American President has bottled up fear within most minorities, especially in African Americans. The article suggests that Donald Trump’s focus was mainly on protecting confederate statues rather than protecting African-Americans and minorities from discrimination and violence.The author seemed to have gathered the information by completing a report on Donald Trump’s speech. The article was meant to be read by minorities who are being ignored by the president and to white Americans. This article is similar to the other article because they both describe the fear that is bottled up inside Americans, whether it is because of threats

Chris began his journey from Virginia and headed west. Chris decided he needed to burn all forms of society he had his money his identification cards and Chris even decided he needed to donate all of his saving all $ 20,000 to a charity. In Chris mind this was the right thing to do as he was going somewhere that money couldn't help him. At this moment Chris was no longer Maccaddles but now Alexander Supertramp. The journey

Luckily, he had an amazing mother who was hard working (despite their situation) and taught her kids right from wrong. She always held her head up, even in the darkest of times. “She managed to see the light shining through the cracks of the darkness.” Another influential person in Chris’s life, was “Uncle Jim.” Although he wasn’t Chris’s uncle by blood, he was his uncle by heart. “Uncle Jim was a small business owner and I admired that.” Chris additionally liked the fact the Uncle Jim could solely support himself and not have to rely on anyone. In this, he considered Uncle Jim his role

As a boy, Chris was fearless and adventurous. While in college, he learned that his father was living a double life with his former wife and became increasingly distant from the family.

When Chris is twelve, his parents take him and his siblings on a hiking trip. While on their trip, Chris wants to keep climbing higher and higher due to his adventurous spirit. His father, Walt, put his foot down and made Chris come back down because of the dangers that the slope held. When Walt puts a halt on Chris’ natural adventurous behavior, this just feeds into Chris’ want to break free from any conformity. Because the two of them have strong willed personalities, the two clash

Effective orators are able to influence the thinking of their audience through the use of rhetoric language. In the speeches of Doris Lessing, ‘On Not Winning the Nobel Prize’ (2007), and Anwar Sadat’s ‘Speech to the Israeli Knesset’ (1997), both orators are able to challenge their respective audiences to abandon the traditional ways of thinking in order to create societal change. The messages conveyed by Lessing and Sadat in their speeches about justice and equality seek to challenge their audience.

When Chris leaves society he leaves a trail of chaos in his rearview mirror. It is shown throughout the book that wherever or whoever Chris abandons, whether it be his family or an old man he got a ride with, that place or person’s life descends into chaos. One of the examples, of person’s life that goes into chaos, is when Chris leaves the old man. When Chris left, he did not think about the consequences for the old man, who he became quite close with. The old man began to think of Chris as family and therefore had a very strong emotional attachment to Chris.

“Then, in a gesture that would have done both Thoreau and Tolstoy proud, he arranged all his paper currency in a pile on the sand—a pathetic little stack of ones and fives and twenties—and put a match to it. One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke.”

The writer and director also show alienation through the character's anger. Christopher McCandless isolates himself because of his anger towards his family. His family believes physical comfort is more important than spiritual values. Therefore Chris’ anger focus’ on his father and his affair, parenting not only Chris but his previous son as well. Honesty and honor, is a big deal to Chris and because of his father's double life, he lost respect for him. “Chris kept careful score. And over time he worked himself into a choler of self-righteous indignation that was impossible to keep bottled up.” (Krakauer 122) Consequently because of his father's past affair, Chris withdrawals himself from his parents. Later, Chris announced to his sister that

Christopher’s protected life at home and childhood significantly constrains his ability to deal with the world around him because his father is deceitful, he tried to get to his mother and he is unique like others in his school. Christopher's father kept confidential information from him like executing the neighbors dog and concealing his mother from him. He set out on a journey to obtain his mother, on this expedition it shows Christopher's true self and how humanity looks upon him. To this extent

Most individuals find refuge within their family: Chris says to her “I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them.” (21). While in the wild we see that Chris is still in turmoil over his father’s affair and the fact that his mother accepted it,