Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

Krakauer felt Chris was heroic and noble/pioneer. “It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing.

Krakauer creates suspense by withholding McCandless’s fate until the very end of the passage. When Chris McCandless ventured into the wilderness alone he ended up trapped due to the heavy flow of the Teklanika’s River blocking his path. The narrator theorizes that perhaps McCandless was unconcerned with his only escape route being cut off due to his adequate

Hope it’d kill me”(Krakauer 60). Krakauer focuses on the big, important, and nice changes that McCandless made in order to persuade us onto think that he was a good person. In some part of the book Krakauer did talk about Chris McCandless past but most of it was focusing on him being a good kid, Krakauer quoted Carine and it interprets“He wasn't antisocial-- he always had friends, and everybody liked him-- but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn't seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being alone”(Krakauer 109).

This shows that Krakauer also had problems communicating with his father, which means that he may be embellishing the harshness of McCandless’s own father-son relationship for a more dramatic flare and also to make both young men seem connected on a deeper level. While he didn't ultimately fail by showing this connection, he did lack in creating this

In the novel “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer tells the story of a Chris McCandless through different points of view perceived from people close to him. Despite the fact the Krakauer did not personally know Chris McCandless, Krakauer uses opinions from himself and others to help conclude meaning and impact behindMcCandless’s journey. Krakauer introduces events in the story in an order such that it also introduces the significance behind them. These techniques help the reader conclude the mystery behind Chris McCandless’s journey.

In 1996 Jon Krakauer wrote a book called Into the Wild about a young man who embarked on a great journey across the United States and the Alaskan wilderness. In this book Krakauer gives an account of Chris McCandless’s short life and he searches for clues that could lead to the cause of McCandless’s of death. As the story develops and McCandless goes further into his journey, his ideas about many things, such as money, change.

The idea of a spontaneous adventure can spark the interest of anyone. In Jon Krakauer's biography, Into the Wild, about Christopher McCandless and his life starting and ending with his Alaskan adventure. Into the Wild explores Chris McCandless, who come from a good family, destined to do great things, and how with on decision, it all went away. Krakauer analyzes McCandless’s mental and physical state before and during McCandless’s time in the Alaskan wilderness, using a journal McCandless kept. Krakauer influences, and convinces readers that McCandless is not “mentally disturbed” (Krakauer 70), and that he didn't purposely go into the wild ill-prepared. Into the Wild was written partially due to negative responses to an article written by Krakauer before the book about McCandless, it was also written due to the connection Krakauer feels to McCandless and his risk taking attitude because Krakauer was once like him.

In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, he tells of a story of how Chris McCandless dropped everything he was doing and left for the wilderness. Chris goes on this crazy trip where at the end he ends up dying in an abandoned bus. During the story Krakauer tells of his thoughts of Chris. Krakauer opinion of Chris is that he thinks that Chris has a valid reason for going into the wilderness and he believes that he wasn’t a nutcase.

However Krakauer adds his own opinion subtly throughout the book which sways the readers own opinion to make him appear to be brave and less reckless. Towards the end of his journey he took a final picture. “Because he was so young, because he was alone, because his body had betrayed him and his will let him down—it’s not apparent from the photograph. He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.” He adds his own opinion on Chris’s feelings and defends his pain that he was truly feeling behind his appearance in the

Throughout his novel Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer’s own perspectives shape the way he tells the story of Chris McCandless. Krakauer’s writing style allows for varying interpretations of the primary motivations of his protagonist, ranging from sympathizing with Chris to perceiving him as selfish. This is especially evident when Krakauer describes an interview with Walt McCandless about his son’s death seven weeks after Chris’ body was found. However, various interpretations of Krakauer’s work can lead to differing points of view on the subject. While Krakauer’s description of Walt’s emotional reaction to his son’s death could indicate Chris’ selfishness in abandoning his family, it could also serve to justify Chris’ decision to embark on his journey into the Alaskan wilderness.

In Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Chris McCandless undertakes a multi-year journey throughout the midwest, southwest, and Alaska before meeting his fate in Alaska. Krakauer uses his book to argue that Chris is a hero for going out and doing what he dreamt of doing. Krakauer’s argument is right because Chris had goals for his trip and reasons for embarking on the trip.

Award winning journalist and author, Jon Krakauer, in his book, Into the Wild, analyzes the life of Chris McCandless as well as the events that ensued his death. Krakauer’s purpose is to inform the reader about how and why Chris McCandless decided to embark on a journey into the wilderness of Alaska. He adopts an empathetic tone in order to impart to his readers that Chris McCandless was a very misunderstood young adult.

Krakauer develops the parallel between McCandless and other young men in eerily similar situation. The author might do this to enrich Chris's story. All the author writes about Chris is based on testimonies and documents. We don't know with certainty what Chris's thought process. By introducing the stories of Gene Rosellini, and Ruess Everett, the readers are able to put the different pieces together and infer Chris' state of mind and motivations.

Chris McCandless in the book was portrayed as almost heroic, his reckless behavior attributed to bravery. The Chris McCandless that the reader is told about is young, brilliant, funny, and charismatic, although he is also a bit mysterious and broody. Jon Krakauer definitely manipulates the story, trying to make McCandless look as good as possible. He does this using different scientific research, and stories of other young people like McCandless who ventured into wilderness to live off the land, interrupting his story about Chris many times.

Jon Krakauer, the author of the book, Into the Wild only know about Chris McCandless is an explorer traveling to Alaska search for himself reborn. However he isn’t exactly what he really is, but an ignorant, foolish, selfish, and misunderstanding of the world in which he lives. These words that have been used to describe him are based on the idea that he went on a journey to the Alaskan wilderness to seek his own revelation, but not having a firm grasp of reality, he senselessly died a stubborn man, the people mention that he was unprepared to go into the wilderness, didn’t listen to a more experienced person, broken several of state laws, abandoned his family and loved ones, and followed a dream that never existed. Personally believed he is an ignorant fool, selfish, and misunderstand man that throws his life away for nothing but despair.