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Jon Krakauer Synthesis Essay

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Teenagers and a lot of young adults have commit in a lot of adventures by going into the wilderness, in which they are seeking of high risk and freedom. Krakauer an American writer and mountaineer, who is the author of best-selling non-fiction books wrote this book about Christopher Johnson McCandless and he talked about how he believed that he died by a simple mistake that he made in the wilderness of Alaska. Jon Krakauer tried to communicate to a special audience which narrowed down some of his techniques that he used and still manages to keep McCandless as a special human which is a big accomplishment for him. In this essay I'm going to use the writing of Krakauer to show how he trying to make us believe that Chris was like any other person and that he died because of a simple mistake. Krakauer’s audience are adults, anyone that was related to Chris …show more content…

Krakauer wrote this book to show people that Chris McCandless was similar to everyone and that we should respect what people think, Krakauer argues “My suspicion that McCandless's death was unplanned, that it was a terrible accident, comes from reading those few documents he left behind and from listening to the men and women who spent time with him over the final year of his life” (Krakauer 134).Krakauer is trying to persuade people into thinking that McCandless was actually like any regular kid and he tries to tell this to the people that thought that McCandless was a stubborn kid. While Krakauer was writing the book he put a counter argument against the Alaskans and clarified why it's not true. After Krakauer wrote the article and published it, he got negative comments, some of them argued“Alex is a nut in my book” … why would any son cause his parents and

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