Certain schools around the United States have been researched many books and that could be controversial to the learning environment of students and their teenage years becoming an adult. With books being banned due to sexual reference, religious viewpoint, and drug use schools are banning many books. The schools could ban books for influences that are not relative to school but the books can show students the that is a great adventure, and to live their life while they can cause it can cause in today’s society with cell phones and new technology. Even though “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer is considered two controversial of a book for the anti-authority and adult themes but the story it tells should still be taught to students because of it …show more content…
Jon Krakauer born in 1954, Brookline, Massachusetts he writes a genre of nonfiction some of his major works include: Into the Wild (1996), Into Thin Air (1997), Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (2003). Krakauer is a mountaineer best known for his works about the outdoors and mountain climbing. Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1954 but grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his family moved when he was two years old. Krakauer's father, an active alpinist, introduced his athletic child to the sport of mountain climbing when Krakauer was eight. Krakauer excelled at climbing, a sport that would later take him on the adventures to Alaska and Mount Everest that would inform his books Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. Krakauer received his bachelor's degree in 1976, and in 1977 he spent three weeks alone in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska. During this trip to Alaska he met former climber Linda Mariam Moore, whom he ultimately married, in 1980. In 1977 Krakauer published a popular magazine article about a climb he completed, alone, during which he charted a new route to the peak of Devil's Thumb in Alaska. "I wish I'd never gone to Everest or even heard of Everest," the