Review Of Jon Krakauer's 'Into The Wild'

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 in the beginning of the book he gives an anecdote of Chris’s life before he died and how he came to die. Throughout chapter three the author explains his real life that he had before heading into the bush. “In truth McCandless had been raised in the comfortable upper-middle-class environs of Annandale, virginia.”(pg19) This little anecdote explains a lot of chris’s past life and it shows the excitement out of this book of how it could bring these tiny hints out to show more later on. The author gives this sneak peek to make the reader think in his mind and to keep it suspenseful. In the book he makes more anecdotes about Chris’s life stories to make the book interesting for example in this quote. “ In 1986, following his junior year at Woodson, Chris was hired by a local building contractor to canavass neighborhoods for sales, drumming up siding jobs and kitchen remodelings.”(pg116) In this quote he gives a short part of Chris’s life and what he during his college life. The author gives this quote to give an understanding why Chis made a decision to head into the Alaskan life. As the author searches though Chris’s life he finds little parts of chris’s life and puts it in the story little by little to keep the suspense flowing. “When Chis was twelve, he printed up a stack of flyers and started a neighborhood copy business, Chris’s Fast Copies, offering

Chris’s friends along the way going through the story give evidence not only that he died but what happened when he met them and how he was a great guy. “There’s one grocery in the town, one bank, a single gas station, a long bar-the Cabaret, where Wayne Westerburg is shipping a cocktail and chewing on a sweet cigar, remembering the odd young man he knew as Alex.”(pg16) In here he introduces Wayne Westerburg a friend of McCandless’s and the one that offers him a job and a ride to the place he wanted to go. Wayne is one of the eyewitness’s that discovers his real life by going through the tax forms and finds out all about him. As Chris goes on and takes this trip he runs into more people that later becomes his friend. “One Thursday in mid-January, McCandless was hitching back out to the bajada after filling his jug when an old man, named Ron Franz, stopped to give him a ride.”(pg49) In this chapter he introduces another eyewitness named Ron Franz who gives him a ride past the hot springs. During this chapter Chris finds a lot about Ron and but Ron couldn’t find anything about Chris other than his drive to live of the grid. Ron expected that something was up with him because he is not a norm who was intelligently young to be living in the Alaskan bush. “It’s really quite a good deal, though, for the inside of