Use of Literary Techniques by Jon Krakauer When Writing Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer had the same experience as McCandless with his family and travel to Alaska, but Krakauer knew more about survival and had company in case of any danger. Krakauer compares, “as a young man, I was unlike Mccandless in many important regard… And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul” (55). Acknowledging McCandless’s background, Chris left society because, in Krakauer’s point of view, of the “agitation of the soul” and the “similar heedless” of society. McCandless didn’t agree with society’s standards that being successful meant having a well paid occupation, especially when McCandless’s parents enforced it onto him. McCandless truly did not want to uphold the wishes of his parents, for Chris to go to college and get high paying career, but it wasn’t what Chris really wanted, so he left all of his conflicts with his parents and his values or “agitation of the soul” to create a new identity as Alex Supertramp and live in the wild. In today’s modern world, humanity lives in an environment where people are controlled and dependent on others. Chris’s father is someone he despises because of his characteristic of being controlling. Walter becomes controlling over Chris, who pressured him into college. As a result, Chris has an “agitation of the soul” to become independent, and a “heedlessness” for society and had an “intensity” for

One thing he said was “But I believe we were similarly affected by the skewed relationships we had with our fathers. And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul.” Him and Chris had similar experiences with their harsh fathers, they also shared the same hatred of conformity and society. Krakauer really does understand McCandless better than anyone else could because of all these things. You may not believe that Chris was courageous or intellectual, but it’s hard to deny the relationship between him and Krakauer.

In Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild, the main character, Chris McCandless, seeks nature so that he can find a sense of belonging and the true meaning of who he is. However, it is the essence of nature that eventually takes his life away from him. At the end of his life, he is discovers his purpose and need of other people. After Chris McCandless death in Alaska, Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to reflect on the journey that McCandless makes. Krakauer protrays McCandless as a young man who is reckless, selfish, and arrogant, but at the same time, intelligent, determined, independent, and charismatic. Along with the irony that occurs in nature, these characteristics are the several factors that contribute to McCandless death.

Through this technique, Krakauer helps to develop Chris’s personality and t conveys the author’s purpose of tell McCandless’s story.

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.

McCandless exhibits his idealistic views when Krakauer states, “He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence” (22). McCandless portrays how he graduated college just to be free from the entanglement he was experiencing with his parents. This demonstrates how he merely completed college to pursue his dream of living of the land in Alaska. He continues to display his moral beliefs when he says, “No, I want to hitch north. Flying would be cheating. It would wreck the whole trip” (67). Chris denies the opportunity to fly north because it goes directly against his idealistic views. This exemplifies that he follows a strict ethical code similar to that of idealism that controls his way of living. Chris McCandless is a “man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch, and map, and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the wilderness” (71). He displays what appears to be great stupidity for leaving everything he has behind, but based on McCandless’s mindset it indicates it to be a motion of bravery.

Although Krakauer, through much of Into the Wild, offers a defense for McCandless’s-not to mention others’ and even his own-affinity for daring and high-risk behaviors, in Ch. 13 he concedes that those who engage in these behaviors often lack the empathy necessary to see the weight of their actions through the perspectives of friends and loved ones. McCandless’s sister, Carine, had taken note of this carelessness with his life. When Krakauer was meeting with her for an interview after Chris’s death, Carine had said that “Chris didn’t think twice” about the potential lethality of his situation, save for when he had “[Buckley] with him” (128). By including the perspective of a close family member, Carine, Krakauer is able to prove that McCandless,

Along with the claim that McCandless had issues with his family, there’s also evidence that points out that he was also influenced by his philosophical beliefs. This is shown throughout the novel that McCandless was described as an individual who was motivated to do things that he, himself, brought himself to do. His belief, which I the reader believe to be, has to do with self-reliance and liberty from society and its oppressing views. Within the story written by Krakauer, McCandless had shown signs that he clearly disliked the opinions of others as well as their their views which he, more than likely, found oppressive. And due to that, he decided to go into the wild to be free from such views since he intended to, as written in the novel, “...invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience,” (23).

Jon Krakauer, an American writer and mountaineer , in his book Into The Wild he clearly feels a connection to Chris McCandless and sees a bit of himself in McCandless. Mccandless refused to do what society told him. He believed that life is best lived by figuring out things yourself r Krakauer always try to defend McCandless because he feels strong connection towards him. In order to exhibit similarities between Chris Mccandless and himself, Krakauer inserts himself in the story many times, to give us better understanding of Chris’s motive behind going to Alaska.

McCandless portrays the trait of adventurous all throughout the novel. McCandless portrays the trait of adventurous because in the novel he states this,”When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it”(). This shows that he would do whatever he wants in order to get what he wants. The author Krakauer states”[McCandless] intended to invent an utterly new life...master of his own destiny”(22). This quote basically shows that he was seeking a

Jon Krakauer’s compelling novel, “Into the Wild” is a true story about Christopher McCandless’ search for identity. McCandless was enamored in the idea of escaping a life that revolves around material possessions. The non-fiction treatment of this young life illustrates through the rebuilding of events in McCandless’ life the idea that McCandless seemed obsessed with how people appeared blind to the fact that they were living unhappy lives yet were terrified of giving up that life because it was safe, provided security and stability. However, for McCandless, nothing was more dangerous to the free spirit within him than that safe secure future. Krakauer with an eye to journalistic detail describes McCandless’ journey using

In the end of the book Krakauer described the death of Chris McCandless in Alaska in the magic bus, died from starvation because he was unprepared. Krakauer's purpose is to show how reckless, selfish, and courageous someone can be in order to discover themselves and finding the meaning of life while also impacting others’ lives. Jon Krakauer adopts an empathetic tone for people who want to discover themselves and travel to do so. If Chris McCandless were to look back at his inspirational journey and see the grief and pain he caused his family, he would have still went on this journey because it was the only way for him to find his independence and find himself. Chris McCandless had met many people, went unprepared on purpose, traveled on his own, and depended on himself. Although Chris McCandless went on a difficult journey while leaving pain and grief to his family, he did live an inspiring life because he followed his dream journey to discover himself without letting anything stop

Towards the beginning of the novel, Krakauer writes about McCandless in a detached tone. When writing about the discovery of McCandless' remains, he takes an objective approach by stating that "Because [Christopher] had been carrying

After reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, it explains that McCandless was admirable for his courage and noble ideas. Krakauer is reciting McCandless’s story about his journey of life. Krakauer should be admirable to what McCandless had achieved in his life and what challenges he faced in Alaska. Chris McCandless had big ideas that he wanted to accomplish and he wanted to show that everyone has the right to accomplish something big in their life. McCandless’ Independence drove him to explore his own values rather than society’s and this drive should be respected regardless of the outcome.

Krakauer starts the book off by telling who was last with McCandless before he set off onto the trail, he would never return to. Krakauer gives the readers background information for most of the book, along with excerpts from McCandless’s journal he seldom kept. This helps his argument because it gives us an inside look at McCandless’s life and the reasons for some of the things he would've done. Starting in chapter 11, titled “Chesapeake Bay,” Krakauer gives an insight to Christopher McCandless’s family around 2 months after his body was found. By organizing his book starting with whom McCandless met and his travel across the country, Krakauer makes his argument about McCandless and how he did not go into the wild unprepared, very clear and persuasive to the