Jon Krakauer has a high amount of respect for Christopher J. McCandless; not only because they have many similarities, but because McCandless searched deep for the meaning of life and did as he pleased. In the book, “Into The Wild,” Krakauer not only tells the story of McCandless, but also of his own life, and how he has been shaped into his own. Krakauer had a deep love for the wild, just as Chris did. Though, the two did not do the same things, they both pursued their passions which made it easier for Krakauer to relate to Chris. Once climbing a mountain, Krakauer had ran into trouble, just as Chris did on his journey.
Where there wasn’t anyone to tell him, no, don’t follow that route. We don’t want you to hinder all that we have indure, your parents want more for you.. He grew weary of his surroundings, he tried too hard to make sense of the everyday world. Tired of the representation of a good samaritan, McCandless could care less what everyone else did, prior to that very moment. He wanted to choose the path that he wanted, just like his heroes Jack London and David Thoreau.
Author Jon Krakauer searched for all of these answers and more in his National Bestseller, Into The Wild, to tell the true story of Chris Mccandless to the world. Krakauer explains that his purpose of writing the story was because he felt Chris’ persona was misconstrued due to it not being deep enough into Chris
In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, is about a guy name Chris McCandless who graduated from college and gave the rest of his money and gave it to charity. Chris went after college gave up his apartment and his car and stuff and changed the way how he lived and packed up and wanted to travel and live in the wild of Alaska. mcCandless wrote a note to his family telling them that he will be leaving and go on a travel he didn't tell them where he was going. The author wrote this story is to tell the audience really how it was like to just go off on your own and not have enough money or food to live in a very rural area where you are nowhere to be found. The author also wanted to let us know how did he survive 3 months in just bad condition
In the book “Into the Wild” written by Jon Krakauer, the tragedy about a man named Christopher McCandless is explained. Chris grew up with a love for nature. As he got older he took more and more trips and eventually moved to Alaska to live off the land. While he was in Alaska, he changed his name to Alex and was living a happy life. Soon his food supply was running short and he became sick and has said to have died due to starvation.
He begins to establish credibility in the author’s note when he writes, “Shortly after the discovery of the corpse, I was asked by the editor of Outside magazine to report on the puzzling circumstances of the boy’s death.” He first got involved in the case of McCandless by writing an article for Outside magazine about McCandless’ death. Krakauer is also very familiar with Alaska and its extremes. Additionally, by conducting various interviews with many of the people in McCandless’ life, his writings are deemed credible. An emotional appeal is also used by Krakauer to persuade the reader to sympathize with McCandless’ friends and family.
As one of the few to survive the trip, Krakauer expresses, in this book, the guilt he was left with. The reviewer, Jenkins (1998), states that Krakauer is a good author, but not one that will win any acclaimed prizes. He later states that rather than writing about his successes
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a novel which explores the true story of Christopher McCandless; his life, his decision to abandon society, his trek into the Alaskan wilderness, and his death. As he introduces the novel, Krakauer warns the reader that he will occasionally interrupt the story to share a memory from his own life, as Chris’s story struck personal to him, and he hoped doing so would help readers achieve a better understanding of McCandless. In the introduction, Krakauer says, “I won’t claim to be an impartial biographer.” (2) In addition to being blatantly biased, Krakauer’s attempts to justify McCandless’s actions fall short, as there are significant bits of information which Krakauer did not disclose.
Chris McCandless, alias Alexander Supertramp, was known for his high regard of nature. Chris lived for excitement, never skipping a chance at adventure, with a respect towards the nomadic lifestyle. In the book, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer tells the story of how Chris divorced his parents to live in the wild. Living off the western land for 2 years, he grew an unassailable passion towards adventure and developed an individualistic personality. He began his last journey in the high-maintenance Alaskan terrain after his journey throughout the west.
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.
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.
“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.
January 30th, 1996: writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer appears on Charlie Rose’s PBS interview show for Into the Wild, the story of Chris McCandless’ journey on his own into Alaska. As the interview rolled on, Krakauer explained McCandless like he was a close family friend due to the information he got while reporting the story for Outside magazine. When asked how he came across this story, he mentioned seeing “a blurb in the New York Times” where he got some chills from seeing it from his time out in Alaska. Ultimately he connects personally with McCandless. Krakhauer inherited transcendental traits through his persistence, individuality and independence, and risk taking.
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.
