Analysis Of Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

Once again, we are tasked with writing another QVSR paper. “Find an epigraph that explains Krakauer’s purpose in writing this book”. In the guidelines, however, we received a very interesting thought to dwell on, “What is Krakauer’s purpose in this book?” Initially I was prepared to write this paper, and not even think for a second about why he might have wanted to script this nonfiction book. As you can already tell from my title, I think there is a simply explanation for that. Krakauer most likely came across the story and became fixated with Christopher “Alexander Supertramp” McCandless. The way he had shut everyone out, went off on his own into the wild, and how and could go for months on end without writing any of his loved ones. He didn't write the this book because of the outdoorsy elements that he's known for, he wrote it because he had a fascination with McCandless. Krakauer went from state to state interviewing people for this book. Throughout the text, you see countless

This is the last line of the first epigraph found at the beginning of chapter 12. As I said before, Krakauer marveled at how Chris “left the world” for large periods of time without making contact with his family. I think this is the most important epigraph because of how it perfectly embodies Christopher. As he got older, and spent more time away from his family, he became unsociable towards the people he came across, and just society in general. The most compelling example to build this argument is a statement made in chapter 12. It reads, “Few of his friends ever saw him outs of classes”, and also “Chris seldom contacted his parents that year, and because he had no phone, they couldn't easily contact him”. This supports my allegation that Chris was really not interested with the rest of society. He closed the door for his parents to be involved in his life, however, he states explicitly that he hates parents, and the way they