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Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

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Into The Wild written by Jon Krakauer is a biography about a man named Chris McCandless and his struggles after traveling Into the Wild. Into the Wild begins when a young boy just out of college named Chris McCandless decides to disown the rules of society and chooses to live in the wilderness. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters and conflicts that shape his life forever. This book traces his steps from living in the wild all the way until his body was found on August 1992, on the Stampede trail in Alaska. …show more content…

Walt McCandless was very educated, he was one of the most important NASA engineers of the time. He lived his life in normality by finding a job and a wife and living a simple life. Chris’s father was concerned about him because he wanted Christopher to be normal and grow up and start a family, but Chris McCandless was nowhere near normal. Chris didn’t really like his father.“Chris seemed to be mad at his dad more often after getting his diploma...”(Krakauer,121). He offered Christopher a car and money but he still denied his offers. Christopher always thought that his father was trying to buy his love by always offering him new things. After earning his diploma McCandless explains to his dad that he is going to be gone for a while. He decides to throw away his phone and money and is in no contact with his family at all. His dad starts to worry by calling the police to release a missing persons’ investigation. After finding the car that was left stranded to be flooded in Detrital Wash he understands that it was Chris’s decision to run away and live his life in the wild. Chris McCandless’s dad conflicted his life that eventually led to death, but the greatest struggle that influenced his death was his conflict with food in the

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In his book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explores the impossibility of attaining complete self-reliance, revealing how eternally elusive it is. Krakauer suggests to the reader that Chris McCandless is not an independent, young man capable of walking into the wild self-sufficiently, alluding to the idea that in order to reach an autonomous state, McCandless had to rely on other things to get him there. Krakauer supports the suggestion that McCandless was not independent with the notion that when confronted with opportunities, McCandless chose to take what was presented to him rather than work for what he needed. A way in which Krakauer expresses self-reliance as being impractical is when McCandless decides to “take advantage of [the bus’]

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The nonfiction novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer retells the bemusing true story of wealthy, free spirited Chris McCandless; also known by the alias “Alexander Supertramp”; who abandoned all his possessions and trekked across America, eventually starving to death in the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer goes to great lengths to explore McCandless’s background and motivations, interpreted as both foolishness and moving determination. This piece intends to visualize that interpretation, showing both the poetic tragedy and frustrating avoidability of McCandless’s demise.     The raging ocean, in shades of green rather than the usual blue, represent the indifferent, greedy wilderness that McCandless ventured in to. It’s chaos in ink matches its chaos

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