The Trial Of The Green Blazer

In conclusion, the author had a very bad life. He says “If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might be called a prodigy but instead he is an oddity.”. He was smart and

The author skillfully uses literary techniques to convey his purpose of giving life to a man on an extraordinary path that led to his eventual demise and truthfully telling the somber story of Christopher McCandless. Krakauer enhances the story by using irony to establish Chris’s unique personality. The author also uses Characterization the give details about Chris’s lifestyle and his choices that affect his journey. Another literary element Krakauer uses is theme. The many themes in the story attract a diverse audience. Krakauer’s telling is world famous for being the truest, and most heart-felt account of Christopher McCandless’s life. The use of literary techniques including irony, characterization and theme help convey the authors

seems to care more about impressing his guests than telling them about his wife, as he

In the introduction of the book, he goes through his own life and what he has gone through to get where he is in the present. He is a journalist turned novelist, and met many people and challenges on his way. The introduction is very technical with not much of a storyline like most fiction novels. In many instances, he alludes to the face of India as being happy and prosperous in opposition to the normal lives that most Indian people lead.

The 1960’s was a period of protest. This happens to be the era when the Vietnam War was in action. The Vietnam War influenced the Tinker vs Des Moines case. The Tinker vs Des Moines case occurred in 1965 when five students from Des Moines wore black armbands to school. The reason behind wearing the armbands was to protest America's participation in the Vietnam War.

Krakauer aligns the narrative of McCandless’ search for identity, and how family played a large role, with his own. Both embark on extreme adventures to find themselves in reaction to actions by their fathers that have caused them great pain. Learning of his father’s bigamy, McCandless thinks

If one of her other husbands were to do this, she probably would have just straight up left them far earlier than she had. But her somewhat irritated response to him running off for a day gambling shows how she has become

In his novel, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer highlights the adventures of Chris McCandless. McCandless undergoes several questionable tasks, which influence the reader to form judgments about his character. Krakauer believes that the reader of the novel should form his or her opinions on the actions of Chris McCandless. However, the author suggests that McCandless is a unique person, describing him as “something else.” By analyzing the background and actions of McCandless, one can conclude that he was rebellious and became tired of his life despite his wealth and accomplishments.

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities.

Krakauer's rather informal yet factual tone enables him to relay the important details of McCandless's adventure while keeping the readers engaged in the story. Krakauer frequently inserts his own thoughts into the story, but his

An individual’s identity is reflected in many aspects of their character. On of the aspects which affect a person’s identity is culture; culture plays a major role in the formation of an individual's character. It imposes customs which ultimately manifest through a person’s identity. The clear link between culture and identity suggests that conflict with one’s culture may affect a person’s sense of self. Jhumpa Lahiri explores this type of conflict in the novel The Namesake, in which Gogol Ganguli is stuck between two cultures the Bengali traditions of his parents and the American culture he grows up with. The novel explores Gogol’s conflict with both cultures and how it ultimately impacts the development of his identity.

enhance his story with the venomous actions of the scorned Montresor using his literature as a self-reflexive

Humour is used across the entire novel which gives comic relief to the harshness of the story. Next, a search for self identity is also prominent throughout the narrative. The title of the book is an example of this, a the start of the story Ben Grafton the protagonist's father wants his son, Mahatma to do some great thing. This continues all through the novel as a recurring theme. After Mahatma, who is a journalist covers a story on a boy who had been killed while playing hockey. He interviewed the boy’s mother and after he was finished he believed he had taken advantage of her and would never do it again. Another instance occurred when a fellow reporter, Chuck was in the hospital dying, he told Mahatma, “... So I’m telling you, as a friend to fuck off out of The Herald. Go do something better… You’ve got better things in you” (Hill 214). Finally, in the epilogue of the story Mahatma received a job at The Toronto Times and was able to write about what he felt was important, he wrote about Jake Corbett, the man on welfare, and the Rabbi, a great man who worked with his father and stood up for porters

The irony in “The White Tiger” shows the corruption in India. Balram Halwai is a student in a school with a teacher that does nothing but sleeps and lay around because he hasn’t gotten his wages for six months. While Balram is looking at this teacher he thinks “You can’t expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet. Every

He writes in a language, and he uses a lot of metaphorical features. We as readers are very confused about the way he has chosen to describe the story, but we are also very fascinated by the action. So whole this short story tells us that he has had a tragic life and how he helps others achieve a good life and you can say here that he has a good point.