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Analysis Of Chris Mccandless In Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

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In the biography about Chris McCandless, Into The Wild, author Jon Krakauer shows how independent McCandless is in the first three chapters. Krakauer shows how independent McCandless is, or how independent he thinks he is, through his diction and indirect characterization. Krakauer continuously added parts into the book that showed how independent Chris was. When writing a letter to Carin, one of the people he had been living with at the time, he complained, “they will think that they have bought my respect!” (21). He was referring to his parents at this point in the story. They wanted to buy him a new car but he refused. This was Chris separating himself from his parents and trying to be himself in the world. There was nothing wrong with
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