Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air : The Power Of Nature

In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explains how Chris was an individual who didn’t have a liking for materialistic things. He was a person who was in it more for the experience and not for the materials he gained from doing things. He wanted to “have an endlessly changing horizon” as he said in his letter to Ron Franz. He thought it would be good to go out and escape the restraints of society and civilization to truly value what life was giving him and what everything else was taking away from him. Many believed that the only reason that Chris wandered off into the wilderness of Alaska was because he was tired of society holding him back and wanted to experience the greatness the world had to offer.

In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explores the human fascination with the purpose of life and nature. Krakauer documents the life and death of Chris McCandless, a young man that embarked on an Odyssey in the Alaskan wilderness. Like many people, McCandless believed that he could give his life meaning by pursuing a relationship with nature. He also believed that rejecting human relationships, abandoning his materialistic ways, and purchasing a book about wildlife would strengthen his relationship with nature. However, after spending several months enduring the extreme conditions of the Alaskan wilderness, McCandless’ beliefs begin to work against him. He then accepts that he needs humans, cannot escape materialism, and can

Into Thin Air is a spectacular novel written by the well-celebrated author Jon Krakauer from his true experience. This account on the 1996 Everest tragedy is described through Krakauer’s perspective as events leading up to the tragedy unravels around him. Due to his hysteric state on everest, Krakauer later took much time and effort into interviewing

Nature affects people the most because genes and hereditary factors in which influence people to become who they are. Plato and Descartes, philosophers, proposed that certain things are inborn and regardless of environmental influence they occur naturally and many other philosophers believed that all of our characteristics and behaviors are the result of evolution (Chemy 2). People learn new information every day; as soon as individuals are conceived their brain starts to learn and understand things around them. Newborn babies are accustomed to the mother’s womb and as a human being individuals are born oblivious to everything that appears to be around them. Each individual needs parents

John Krakauer’s novel Into The Wild, tells the story of a young man who intends to disappear from society, and contains numerous relatable themes. Although difficult for many to understand his reasoning in doing so, Krakauer intends to demonstrate to readers the positives and negatives of such an experience. Upon thorough examination of this piece of writing, it is possible to truly gain a vast amount of self-knowledge in relation to the text. A tale full of invitations to face ourselves, John Krakauer’s Into The Wild prompts me to examine myself in respect to concepts of great significance such as materialism, conformity, and intimacy.

There is never a quote or story that embodies a person completely. However, when it comes to Chris McCandless, John Haines’ quote comes close to capturing his story. Haines writes how nature was always apart of him and the more he learned about it the more he yearned for the outdoors. He wrote about wanting to take a path into the unknown and not look back. Haines ended his passage with, “Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.” One cannot help but think about Chris McCandless when reading Haines’ words. Chris too, had a longing for adventure since adolescence, his views on the world got more extreme the more he learned, and he never looked back even when people were looking for him.

In my opinion I believe the authors main point in this essay was to vindicate anything that Chris McCandless did in his life. When reading I could definitely sense Krakauers natural liking for McCandless. He was sympathetic to McCandless, based on Krakauers sense of a shared experience in their youth and up until McCandless eventual death and Krakauers perceived near death experience on the Devils Thumb.

Australia and Everest, two different climates, locations, and ways of life, yet people come to both for breathtaking adventure. In sixth grade I found out my family was moving across the world to a city called Wollongong in Australia. Here my adventure began from going to an all girls school to hiking in the Grampians. Everest is a place only a few people want to tackle, but it leaves a memory for all who climb Everest no matter how old. A new adventure is what brings people to places whether it is a city in Australia or the top of the world. In Wollongong, I was scared to start my first day of a new school full of strangers with funny accents in a place I had only dreamed of. My dream and my desire to explore new places came true, and now I have the key to unlock my new adventures. Those people dreamed of climbing Everest and did unlock an exciting but scary truth. I was a girl scared to go

The author Jon Krakauer uses Christopher Johnson McCandless from Into The Wild, and Beck Weathers, Scott Fischer, Doug Hansen and himself, from Into Thin Air to show the importance of being well prepared. Combined with their poor judgement of the surroundings, Christopher McCandless, Jon Krakauer, Doug Hansen and Beck Weathers each make very rash decisions when difficult circumstances arise, they fail to cope with the situation which leads to their downfall. Furthermore, Christopher McCandless, Jon Krakauer, Beck Weathers, and Doug Hansen are all motivated to push through; even though their bodies are at their limits. Additionally the arrogance foolishness, and underestimation of extreme conditions along, with minimal experience causes their

Imagine this: a young adult vanishes without a trace to venture off into the wild and “discover” himself. With the bearings of a modern-day bildungsroman, such a story may not seem uncommon; after all, young adult novels and films have both glorified and censured the youthful adventure tale, perpetuating an image of adolescents (particularly young males) as courageous yet foolhardy individuals who adamantly desire self-discovery. Such depictions may not be far from reality, as demonstrated by the story of Chris McCandless in Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction book Into the Wild. Krakauer presents a relatively objective account of 24-year-old McCandless’s brief sojourn in the Alaskan wilderness and the events leading to his death, offering opinions from individuals who criticized the young man’s arrogance and foolhardiness as well as those who extolled McCandless as a noble, brave hero. To establish an extreme and unyielding stance on Chris McCandless – viewing him as either a righteous idealist or an inexperienced dunderhead – would disregard McCandless’s nuanced personality and his sensitive familial circumstances. When one takes into account McCandless’s estrangement from his family and his worship of author Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, it becomes clear that while McCandless was an ignorant and overconfident hypocrite who was unable to survive in the wild, he genuinely adhered to his beliefs and was not wholly responsible for his own death.

Chris McCandless probably wasn’t the first to think, “When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.” In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and the short story “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, they both have the belief that by living off of nature and preserving it, the closer one will come to understanding the nature of nature.

The bits and pieces of nature we breathe in everyday is aids our wellbeing. Listening to the language of the culture of nature enables us to make better decisions in our lives. The wet surface of the earth outside your house signals you to bring an umbrella – which will prevent you from becoming wet and catching a cold. The scent of flowers in the air sets off a sneezing fit reminding you to take your allergy medication. However, people will not always understand the hints nature dishes out to us. An example is the signs of

In life we are all confronted with the idea of nature along with society. Although both have their pros and cons they work together to give us freedom and order among individuals.

Into thin air shows me the importance of preparing before climb the mountain. Everything is hard to do without preparing. If you don’t train yourself, check the oxygen, and make sure the way, you will not arrive the top of mountain. Furthermore, mentality is also important for you to climb your “Everest.”

Introduction: Global warming is the greatest challenge that our planet is facing today. The continuous rise in the earth 's temperature has been a current and widely discussed topic in today 's world. Roland Emmerich 's sci-fi thrillers "The day after tomorrow" and "2012" and scientific documentaries such as Leonardo DiCaprio 's " The 11th hour" and Davis Guggenheim 's " An inconvenient truth" aim to raise public awareness about the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment. I have chosen these films and documentaries because they are relatively engaging and explain the role of humans in the annihilation of the planet from several different professional fields such as medical specialists, scientists and climatologists. Apart from a similar theme of global warming these films bring out the selfishness in human nature, and some scientific realities that make these films stand out as exceptions in the modern world. The power of these films, however, lies solely in their objectives and authoritative declarations about the depleting state of the planet.