Into the Wild recounts the story of a young man, Chris McCandless, who tries to escape from society in order to find himself. Fascinated by nature, Chris gives up most of his material possessions to hitchhike around the western United States. Interestingly enough, he severs all ties with his family and believes that he can find happiness within himself, yet makes connections with several people along his journal. Fueled by the ideology of writers such as Tolstoy, London, and Thoreau, Chris camps alone in the Alaskan wild to find a purer version of himself until his death. Throughout Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer develops the idea that Chris McCandless’ quest for solitude is essential to obtain true freedom; however, Chris ultimately realizes
Firstly, Into The Wild written by Jon Krakauer is one of the best book I have read this year. Throughout the novel, I can see Chris McCandless is brave enough to do things that most people will not even think about doing as he is “looking for more adventure and freedom than today’s society gives people” (). From the beginning, even though his parents, Billie and Walt McCandless set him up for an impressive, promising life, Chris gives up this promising, successful future and spins into a journey filled with idealist literature and danger that skews his world view. This is due to the modern society offers that does not appeal to Chris, who just wants a different life that many have themselves. He sees the influences society puts on our lives
Into the Wild introduces us to Chris McCandless, an intelligent young man from a wealthy family, who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness to his ultimate demise. When the story of this young man was published in Outsider, the magazine for which the author of this book wrote, many other similar stories to that of McCandless’s arose. In August of 2013, a young boy who had a fascination to the story of McCandless was found dead in the woods. His name was Johnathan Croom. While both the tragedies of McCandless and Croom had some major similarities, the two scenarios had completely different causes and their journeys were completely different from one another.
In August of 1992, a man by the name of Chris McCandless was found dead in a bus located north of Mt. McKinley Alaska, by a group of hunters. The book, Into the wild, is written by Jon Krakauer who takes on the task of finding out who exactly was Chris McCandless. Through the book, we find out about his childhood, his school life and his travels. The book gives us a sense of who he was a person, his childhood life, and his thoughts on the world. Many argue that his death was a suicide but one can argue that his death was exactly the opposite.
The compelling novel Into The Wild, by American Journalist Jon Krauker is an inspirational and deep look inside the mind and life of a beloved young adventure Chris McCandless. Krauker himself was once a adventure, who also faced many obstacles throught his endevers. Krauker uses Retorical Stratieges in Into The Wild to show readers that know matter the outcome of the adventure, its the lessons of perseverance and determination that is ones biggest success. Chris McCandless is seen by many as careless, naive, and reckless. Krauker however viewed Chris as brave and just being young.
Jon Kraukauer, author of Into the Wild, attempts to recollect in a way that fosters understanding. In order to accurately capture the death in a way that will cause the audience to empathize and understand Kraukauer had to appeal to a reader's logical thought while also managing to paint a vivid picture of McCandless’s physical and mental state in his final days. Kraukauer begins his own analysis of McCandless's death with anaphora, in order to display the confusion, redundancy, and panic surrounding Christopher's final actions. The author keeps repeating the beginnings of Christopher's journal entries, “On August 9, he notes… On August 10, he saw…
Christopher McCandless was a recent college graduate who decided to abandon the entirety of his past life and restart with a nomadic, self-sufficient lifestyle in Alaska's wilderness. On Tuesday, April 28, 1992, McCandless entered the wild, ceasing all forms of human interaction; this was the last time he was seen alive. Jon Karkauer's, Into The Wild, combines the findings of his passionate, in-depth investigation using firsthand information extracted from McCandless's personal journal, letters, and interviews with his family members in order to tell the story of McCandless' adventure across the country that eventually ended his life. Additionally, using longform journalism, Karkauer explores the motivations behind McCandless's decision; in
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 the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, there are multiple events happening. Chris shows many emotions throughout this novel. Chris has a great future ahead of him. He was a smart man and came from a good family, but he did not get along with them. He loved doing things on his own.
Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild is controversial due to the poor ideas it gives to readers, but should continue to be read because of the inspiration that can be taken from it. Jon Krakauer
Christopher McCandless, whose life and journey are the main ideas of the novel “Into the Wild”, was about an adolescent who, upon graduating from Emory College, decided to journey off into the Alaskan wilderness. He had given away his savings of $25,000 and changed his name to Alex Supertramp. His voyage to Alaska took him two years during which he traveled all across the country doing anomalous jobs and making friends. He inevitably made it to Alaska were he entered the wilderness with little more than a few books, a sleeping bag and a ten pound bag of rice. A couple months after his first day in the wild, his body was found in an abandoned bus.
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.
Into the Wild tells the story of Chris McCandless, a young man who embarked on an adventure across the U.S. Chris lived for adventure, and sadly met his demise in the Alaskan wilderness. Chris’ death brought about a large debate as to whether Chris was insane or simply idealistic. Krakauer wrote Into the Wild to prove Chris’ sanity and soundly completes that task by using rhetorical devices to persuade his audience. Throughout the book, Krakauer uses ethos to develop Chris’ credibility by providing examples of people who are similar to him. For example, Krakauer provides multiple examples of people who were very similar to Chris, such as Everett Ruess.
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.
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.
