Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild investigates the life and adventures of Chris McCandless. The author provides information about Chris’ life to illuminate his journey. Krakauer also uses rhetorical appeals to defend Chris’ rationale for his journey. Through Krakauer’s use of pathos, ethos, and logos, he persuades the audience that Chris is not foolish; however, Krakauer’s intimacy with Chris and his adventures inhibits his objectivity.
While being interviewed by Krakauer, McCandless’ friend Walt says, “‘We had our hearts in our mouths the whole time he was gone...but there was no way to stop him’”(118). The reader begins to sympathize for the loved ones of McCandless. The author makes the reader wonder if McCandless was being selfish for letting his friends and family worry about him. Rather than feeling compassionate for McCandless, the reader relates to the people that were affected by McCandless and his adventures. Krakauer’s persuasive strategies are very influential to the reader’s opinion on the
Into The Wild, based on a true story, is about Chris McCandless, an Emory University top student graduate and athlete, who abandons his possessions, gave away his money to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness, encountering many people who reshape his whole life. His goal in the wilderness was to spend time with nature, with ‘real’ existence, away from the trappings of the modern world. The author’s first description of him was how he was arrogant and how he didn’t really fit with the modern world. On his journey, he went on a path of self-discovery, to examine and appreciate the world around him and to reflect on and heal from his troubled childhood and parents dirty and abusive relationship. He eventually starves to death in his epic journey realizing that “Happiness is only real when shared”.
In this novel, for the price of $65,000, two groups of people get the opportunity to be taken on a guide of the highest point on earth. It isn’t long before a storm hits and two sherpas, three guides, and four clients are killed. As a result of this horrific event, speculation of these expeditions arose. The author of this book, Jon Krakauer, was paid by a magazine company to write about these types of expeditions. He was an experienced climber, but not a professional.
Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a non-fiction book based on the real-life story of Christopher McCandless, a young man who leaves his comfortable life behind to live in the wilderness of Alaska. The book is a fascinating exploration of McCandless's motivations and the reasons behind his decision to abandon society and embrace the wilderness. One of the key themes in the book is the tension between the desire for freedom and the need for human connection. Throughout the book, Krakauer explores how McCandless's desire for freedom and independence led him to reject the traditional trappings of society, including money, possessions, and even his own name.
Facts are an important thing in society,but it’s quite often that emotions and opinions get thrown into the mixture. In Jon Krakauer’s national bestseller Into The Wild,he writes about a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless,a man quite similar to Krakauer,both of them being adventurers of the wild. Into The Wild is a non-fiction book about the life of McCandless,a young man who leaves without a trace,hitchhiking his way across the U.S. on a journey to Alaska,wanting to free himself from social shackles and go into the wild. McCandless is very similar to Krakauer,who also has trekked through the wild many times,and that’s why he depicts Chris with a lot of bias. Krakauer writes Into The Wild in a way that depicts Chris as some sort
Into the Wild is a short story that took place in 1996. The story is about a guy named Christopher McCandless who decided to set out on a journey to the Alaskan wilderness. He choose to give up his savings to charity and get rid of his possessions. Wayne Westerberg is one of the characters in the story who meets Christopher along his journey. “He...owns a grain elevator in Carthage and another one a few miles out of town but spends every summer running a custom combine crew that follows the harvest from Texas north to Canadian border.
1. John Krakauer’s tone in the first couple of chapters of the book was of curiosity and sympathy. He was constantly wondering how Chris McCandless died and why he would put himself into that situation of extreme danger while also feeling sorrowful; almost as if he felt like Chris was in over his head and didn’t deserve what had happened to him. “Gallien offered to drive Alex all the way to Anchorage, buy him some decent gear, and then drive him back to wherever he wanted to go. ‘No, thanks anyway,’ Alex replied, ‘I’ll be fine with what I’ve got.”
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a biography that follows Chris McCandless and his journey through the wilderness while finding himself along the way. Chris McCandless died in the August of 1992 after a four month journey through places like Mexico and Alaska. Krakauer investigates his actions and analyzes his identity after his death, trying to find meaning within his seemingly unnecessary expedition. Chris McCandless constructs his personal identity as a man who wanted to be challenged and inspired by his actions and interests with people he met on the road, and his beliefs and values as a stubborn person. Chris McCandless’s actions are unusual in many ways; for one, he graduates college with honors, but instead of pursuing a career,
Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer in the beginning Chris McCandless meets many people throughout his journey traveling to different places and left a great impression behind to those he met. Like Wayne Westerberg, Jan Burres and Bob, and Ronald Franz and few others on his journey. They all had a close connection with him and felt as if they were his son or someone very close to them. Krakauer mentioned about Chris McCandless relationship with his family is distant because of the conflicts he has with himself and his father.
Krakauer’s Argument In Krakauer’s argument he does make an effective case justifying McCandless behavior. Krakauer mentions in his argument, he stated, “McCandless wasn’t as stupid, tragic, and inconsiderate, but instead paints a sympathetic picture of a young man with a profound moral compass seeking a higher truth”. This means that Chris McCandless just wanted to get away from the society he once knew before and just go find his peace in himself and the world. He thought by going out into the wild, that it would solve the problem, even though he did not really know how to actually survive in the wild..
“I need to learn how to be content with simply not knowing, and be at peace with the notion that everything does not need an explanation.” I ran across this quote one day while scrolling through my newsfeed on Facebook and my mind immediately went to Into the Wild. The book takes a considerably different approach on sharing the story of a rebellious and ambitious young man who died in the Alaskan wilderness. Writer Jon Krakauer combines his own thoughts along with the accounts of others to the young adventurers’ letters and journal entries to recount the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, who referred to himself as Alexander Supertramp. He was raised in Annandale, Virginia by a wealthy family.
Creating The Contemporary Classic Author: Jon Krakauer “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt.” Jon Krakauer stated this inspiring motto in his most famous book, Into The wild. Not only does Jon Krakauer demonstrate this principle in his books, but also in his everyday life. Jon Krakauer (born April 12,1954) is an American author and mountaineer. He is a well-known author of the Contemporary literature .
Anyone can have a story in their life and can turn it into a book. Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild on what happened to Christopher McCandless and turned his story into a novel. Jon Krakauer´s structure his novel to let the reader have their own opinions on Christopher McCandless by stating the book is on his bias viewpoint, putting it in non-chronological order, and wrote about his own background life story, which is all important to strengthen Krakauer 's motive of writing his book. Into the Wild, focuses on the young individual named Christopher McCandless who hitchhiked to Alaska. Along the way, in his journey, he met new people and traveled in many places.
Based on a real story, Into the Wild can make us think from different perspectives about what the main character Christopher McCandless did. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a dramatic but also remarkable story from a young, newly graduated, college student that escaped for a long wild journey but never came back. As time passes throughout the book, the reader may notice how the main character interacts with society and nature, finally McCandless dies in the wild but even though he was struggling for survival he died happy. Some people never get out of their comfort zone, others are tired of it and retire from their comfort zone to have different experiences in life, some are good enough or some are terrible.
