Isolation In The Book 'Into The Wild' By Jon Krakauer
Alex Smith
Coach Metcalf
August 26, 2014
Into the Wild Essay Isolation
The book I read was Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, a book explaining the exciting story of a nineteen year old boy named Chris McCandless. Chris was born into a wealthy family with siblings; Chris later attended Emory where he would already start to isolate himself from others. Isolating himself from others would eventually cause Chris to make a journey he would later regret and not return from. This will show how humans are not meant for isolation and it will not lead into anything helpful and won’t turn out in your favor.
The first way Chris isolated himself was during school. In the book, it says, “Chris lived off campus in his bare, spartan room furnished …show more content…
The first way Chris shows regret is when writing the S.O.S note, the text says, “S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?” (Krakauer 11). After writing this you can tell that Chris is actually about to die and since there is nothing else all he can rely on is someone walking by to help. This shows he is in a desperate need for help and needs some type of miracle. Next in the book it says, “Reality, however, was quick to intrude on McCandless’s reverie” (Krakauer 112). This explains that what Chris thought to be easy was actually very hard. This realization would make him have a second thought about everything, and what he has done. After being in the wild for sometime in the book it says, “At that point he gave up on preserving the bulk of the meat and abandoned the carcass to the wolves” (Krakauer 114). This shows the troubles Chris had trying to find and preserve food. Also how he regrets killing the moose because he wasted its life and became unable to save any food for
Coach Metcalf
August 26, 2014
Into the Wild Essay Isolation
The book I read was Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, a book explaining the exciting story of a nineteen year old boy named Chris McCandless. Chris was born into a wealthy family with siblings; Chris later attended Emory where he would already start to isolate himself from others. Isolating himself from others would eventually cause Chris to make a journey he would later regret and not return from. This will show how humans are not meant for isolation and it will not lead into anything helpful and won’t turn out in your favor.
The first way Chris isolated himself was during school. In the book, it says, “Chris lived off campus in his bare, spartan room furnished …show more content…
The first way Chris shows regret is when writing the S.O.S note, the text says, “S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?” (Krakauer 11). After writing this you can tell that Chris is actually about to die and since there is nothing else all he can rely on is someone walking by to help. This shows he is in a desperate need for help and needs some type of miracle. Next in the book it says, “Reality, however, was quick to intrude on McCandless’s reverie” (Krakauer 112). This explains that what Chris thought to be easy was actually very hard. This realization would make him have a second thought about everything, and what he has done. After being in the wild for sometime in the book it says, “At that point he gave up on preserving the bulk of the meat and abandoned the carcass to the wolves” (Krakauer 114). This shows the troubles Chris had trying to find and preserve food. Also how he regrets killing the moose because he wasted its life and became unable to save any food for