Into the Wild

The non-fiction book, Into the Wild, by author Jon Krakauer, is the story of Christopher McCandless, a young Emory Graduate from a rather wealthy family, who is mysteriously found dead in the Alaskan wilderness in September 1992 at the age of 24. Krakauer retells significant events of McCandless leading up to his death. In Into the Wild, Krakauer uses many rhetorical devices in order to support his argument. Krakauer effectively manipulated the rhetorical devices of characterization, comparison, logos, and anecdotes to convince the audience that Chris was not particularly unusual and as insane that people perceived him to be.

Krakauer’s Retelling of Chris McCandless’s Life in Into the Wild Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild is a nonfiction account of the life of Chris McCandless and his journey where he leaves society for the wilderness. Christopher McCandless, also referred to by his alias Alexander Supertramp, embarks on a spiritual expedition to reject the stress put upon him by both society and his parents in order to find his true self. He disappears without informing anybody and travels on foot and through hitchhiking for a few months before found dead from starvation in the Alaskan wilderness. While Krakauer characterizes Chris as a curious and determined young man, others, specifically Craig Medred in his article “The beatification of Chris McCandless: From thieving poacher into saint”, believe Chris was selfish and reckless.

Into the Wild is a novel about a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless, who journeys out to Denali National Park, Alaska, in hope of living off in the bush for a while. However, things take a turn for the worst, and he ends up dead in August 1992 from starvation in an abandoned, rusty bus. His death wounded up in hundreds of articles with some writers who see him as an inspiration, while others see him as a complete arrogant delinquent. Before Chris's journey, he lived a stable life: money, education, a loving family, things a person could ever wish for. Despite that, he finishes college and leaves his parents and his sister without a trace, and heads to the Southwest part of the United States in his precious Datsun.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a nonfiction novel. Chris McCandless is a man from an upper middle class that graduated college with honors. After college Chris decided to go to Alaska and invent a new life for himself. In doing so he gave 25,000 dollars to charity, abandoned his car and possessions, and burned all of his money. Chris McCandless constructs his identity through his actions, interests, values and beliefs to show who he is as a person.

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.

Into The Wild is a book written by Jon Krakauer. Krakauer wrote the book in 1995 to retrace McCandless’ journey. The author wanted to understand why Chris McCandless went on his journey, and where and how he traveled while on his way to Alaska. In the book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris’s credo was to escape society and his problems at home, and to explore the earth and to experience the beauties of nature.

A quote from William Bolitho states, “Adventure must start with running away from home”. Into the WIld is a true account of an individual who seeks the natural land of Earth to develop a better life for himself. The author, Jon Krakauer, publishes the series of events that lead to the death of a young nomad, Christopher McCandless. The mysterious death of the runaway intellect was investigated by Jon Krakauer, an editor who retraced McCandless’s steps and interviewed everyone that had an interaction with McCandless or his alias, Alexander Supertramp. McCandless left everything behind, including his wealthy and bright future, to start a new life as a nomadic hitchhiker. He intended to begin a life of religious philosophy, connecting with nature, to connect with himself through optimism, self-reliance and nonconformity, a life of transcendentalism. As he traveled around the Western United States, Christopher McCandless lived an optimistic life which allowed him to overlook the dangers and hardships of his journey detached from society.

Jon Krakauer, fascinated by a young man in April 1992 who hitchhiked to Alaska and lived alone in the wild for four months before his decomposed body was discovered, writes the story of Christopher McCandless, in his national bestseller: Into the Wild. McCandless was always a unique and intelligent boy who saw the world differently. Into the Wild explores all aspects of McCandless’s life in order to better understand the reason why a smart, social boy, from an upper class family would put himself in extraordinary peril by living off the land in the Alaskan Bush. McCandless represents the true tragic hero that Aristotle defined. Krakauer depicts McCandless as a tragic hero by detailing his unique and perhaps flawed views on society,

In April of 1992, a young man of the age of twenty-four, later determined to be Chris McCandless ' body, was discovered in an old Fairbanks bus in the Alaskan bush. Four years after his death, Jon Krakauer wrote a novel titled Into The Wild, the book traced McCandless 's journey around much of the United States, across the West side of Canada, and even down to the boarder of Mexico. Over the many years since his death, speculations have arisen about how death was brought upon him. Most believe starvation was the only reason, but with extensive research Jon Krakauer discovered another theory, that a substance in the seeds that Chris McCandless was ingesting was a contributing factor to his death. Even with this conclusion many around the world despise Chris for his being naive and unprepared when walking into the wild. While others believe he was brave for following his dreams and never letting anyone talk him out of his plans. Chris McCandless was an adventurer who was brave enough to never back down, but in the end his luck turned for the worst and was misfortunate enough to have ate the wrong type of food. McCandless was an inspiration and a lesson to people of all ages, that dreams aren 't meant to be taken lightly and even with possible risks they should be followed. Jon Krakauer 's book tells a marvelous story of a young man who left behind the outside world to do what he loved the most.

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.

Into the Wild is a biography written by Jon Krakauer about a man named Chris McCandless who left his comfortable life in Virginia to embark on a mountainous journey to the depths of the Alaskan wilderness to achieve Nirvana from society. Chris’ minimalist and transcendental

Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a memoir about how living in the wilderness and how Chris McCandless lived nearly two years in the wild. Throughout the novel, Krakauer relates Chris’ adventures to his own experience in mountain climbing and living on his own. This is not your typical memoir where the author tells a story about their lives. Jon Krakauer is not the main character; however he tells a story of this boy who leaves his well-developed family for no apparent reason. But not only does he tell Chris’ story, he tells his own by fusing them altogether.

Into the Wild by John Krakauer is a nonfiction book, later adapted into a movie in 2007 when I was about eight years old. Admittedly, I was most likely watching Sponge Bob at the time of its movie release. My high school Religion Teacher Mr. Towell gave us a writing assignment for us to watch the movie Into the Wild and answer some thought-provoking questions. My mother had read the book back in the nineties and encouraged me to read the book before watching the movie. Thanks to both of these people, this book is one of my favorites.

Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer tells of a young man named Chris McCandless who 1deserted his college degree and all his worldly possessions in favor of a primitive transient life in the wilderness. Krakauer first told the story of Chris in an article in Outside Magazine, but went on to write a thorough book, which encompasses his life in the hopes to explain what caused him to venture off alone into the wild. McCandless’ story soon became a national phenomenon, and had many people questioning why a “young man from a well-to-do East Coast family [would] hitchhike to Alaska” (Krakauer i). Chris comes from an affluent household and has parents that strived to create a desirable life for him and his sister. As Chris grows up, he

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