Into The Wild Rhetorical Analysis

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In May of 1998, Kipland Kinkel brought a gun to his school. Over the course of two days this escalated from: being sent home, to murdering his father and mother, to murdering 2 students and wounding 26, earning a lifetime sentence of 111 years and 8 months in prison. In the court case being examined, the presiding judge addresses the original case, defendants ground for appeal, and the justification for the State’s decision to deny the appeal. Judge Haselton effectively uses ethos, logos, and pathos to support the Higher Court’s decision to deny the appeal because the original sentence was constitutional and just.

As a boy, Chris was fearless and adventurous. While in college, he learned that his father was living a double life with his former wife and became increasingly distant from the family.

With a silent yet inescapable list of expectations, the pressure of society, and his damaged parents, one could believe that the adventure he embarked on was a way to remove himself from his destructive environment. However Chris had never experienced independence in his life. He felt separated from everyone with few friends and a well-off family that was tragically broken, and

Luckily, he had an amazing mother who was hard working (despite their situation) and taught her kids right from wrong. She always held her head up, even in the darkest of times. “She managed to see the light shining through the cracks of the darkness.” Another influential person in Chris’s life, was “Uncle Jim.” Although he wasn’t Chris’s uncle by blood, he was his uncle by heart. “Uncle Jim was a small business owner and I admired that.” Chris additionally liked the fact the Uncle Jim could solely support himself and not have to rely on anyone. In this, he considered Uncle Jim his role

Chris began his journey from Virginia and headed west. Chris decided he needed to burn all forms of society he had his money his identification cards and Chris even decided he needed to donate all of his saving all $ 20,000 to a charity. In Chris mind this was the right thing to do as he was going somewhere that money couldn't help him. At this moment Chris was no longer Maccaddles but now Alexander Supertramp. The journey

hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ashes and smoke” (P. 29). Chris

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“Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, and inherently evil—which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck. “Chris was always an entrepreneur,” Billie says with a laugh.

When Chris is twelve, his parents take him and his siblings on a hiking trip. While on their trip, Chris wants to keep climbing higher and higher due to his adventurous spirit. His father, Walt, put his foot down and made Chris come back down because of the dangers that the slope held. When Walt puts a halt on Chris’ natural adventurous behavior, this just feeds into Chris’ want to break free from any conformity. Because the two of them have strong willed personalities, the two clash

When Chris leaves society he leaves a trail of chaos in his rearview mirror. It is shown throughout the book that wherever or whoever Chris abandons, whether it be his family or an old man he got a ride with, that place or person’s life descends into chaos. One of the examples, of person’s life that goes into chaos, is when Chris leaves the old man. When Chris left, he did not think about the consequences for the old man, who he became quite close with. The old man began to think of Chris as family and therefore had a very strong emotional attachment to Chris.

The writer and director also show alienation through the character's anger. Christopher McCandless isolates himself because of his anger towards his family. His family believes physical comfort is more important than spiritual values. Therefore Chris’ anger focus’ on his father and his affair, parenting not only Chris but his previous son as well. Honesty and honor, is a big deal to Chris and because of his father's double life, he lost respect for him. “Chris kept careful score. And over time he worked himself into a choler of self-righteous indignation that was impossible to keep bottled up.” (Krakauer 122) Consequently because of his father's past affair, Chris withdrawals himself from his parents. Later, Chris announced to his sister that

Chris is a charismatic young man, but takes extensive measures to ensure he does not become too close with anyone. By going out into the wild without so much as a letter to his parents,

Christopher’s protected life at home and childhood significantly constrains his ability to deal with the world around him because his father is deceitful, he tried to get to his mother and he is unique like others in his school. Christopher's father kept confidential information from him like executing the neighbors dog and concealing his mother from him. He set out on a journey to obtain his mother, on this expedition it shows Christopher's true self and how humanity looks upon him. To this extent

Most individuals find refuge within their family: Chris says to her “I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them.” (21). While in the wild we see that Chris is still in turmoil over his father’s affair and the fact that his mother accepted it,