man named Chris McCandless‚ from a prosperous and loving family‚ hitchhiked across the country to Alaska. He gave $25‚000 of his savings to charity‚ left his car and nearly all of his possessions. He burned all the cash he had in his wallet‚ and created a new life. Four months later‚ his body was found in an abandoned bus. Jon Krakauer constructed a journalistic account of McCandless ’s story. Bordering on obsession‚ Krakauer looks for the clues to the mystery that is Chris McCandless. What he finds
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the Wild Jon Krakauer’s “Death of an Innocent” appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside magazine. Krakauer was curious in the young man’s story that he‚ himself set out to investigate the haunting truths that led to the death of Christopher McCandless. Krakauer reveals in his 1996 book “Into the Wild” an expansion to his article of the events that occurred. Jon Krakauer aims to convince his readers that McCandless’s story elicits strong‚ sympathizing reactions. Krakauer used many rhetorical strategies
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Obligation to Family The book "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer is a story about a man by the name of Chris McCandless. He is a man who grew up in a DC suburb‚ graduated college and decides to change the ways of his life. He journeys across the country‚ and finds his way to Alaska. His means are to leave the material lifestyle and become at one with nature. During Chris’s adventure he seems to neglect all communication with his family and over look the fact that they care about his health and future
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Krakauer not only examines Chris McCandless’ life and his actions but also shares his own past actions and how they relate to Chris‚ bringing light to why Chris did what he did. Every person needs to find their own key to satisfaction‚ McCandless’s happened to be the transcendentalist beliefs of nature being the only substance required for happiness. Jon Krakauer supports the dependence upon nature by explaining why someone would take radical actions‚ like McCandless‚ to experience the life written
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Synthesis Paper Chris McCandless was not happy with his life and didn’t know the truth about his own being. He decided to abandon his family and society to find his genuine self. Chris thought that he was not the person that he was supposed to be so he went on a long journey that ended in Alaska. After living alone for 112 days‚ he died due to starvation. Life is a precious gift. In life‚ we all have some responsibilities to fulfill. There’s no question that Chris abandoned those responsibilities
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Christopher Johnson McCandless walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness with very little equipment and food after traveling to various parts of North America during the course of two years. Regardless of living on his own with not many things for a couple of years‚ Chris died alone in a bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. Author Jon Krakauer wrote a 9‚000 word article titled “Death of an Innocent” for the 1993 issue of the magazine Outside. Into the Wild is simply an extension of that article
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Krakauer‚ in Into the Wild‚ adds his personal life to bring more awareness and understanding between the reader and Chris McCandless. By doing this‚ he connects himself to McCandless emotionally to attract more ethos‚ and pathos‚ to Chris’s story. In this paragraph‚ Krakauer uses his personal testimony with his father to further develop Chris’ story showing how the relationship affected his future through chronological development‚ and the disparity between him and his father. During the story
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Anti-Gay Murder‚” Beth Loffreda talks about the outcome of a gay young man named Matt Shepard being murdered‚ and how he became lost in the wake of the movement that followed. Similarly‚ Jon Krakauer retraces the story of a young man named Chris McCandless who died in the Alaskan wilderness in his piece “Into the Wild.” The death of a person can become gradually more complex based on if it was natural‚ accidental or murder‚ if it was sudden‚ or slow‚ or if it was intentional. These are things that
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Is geography nothing more than a physical location? And‚ in the case of Christopher McCandless and Gerald Broflofski‚ can changing your identity be as easy as changing your zip code? I do not believe that to be the case. In fact‚ I find the opposite to be true. It is one’s experiences and morals that makes a person who they are. Location‚ ultimately‚ is just a backdrop. As a young man‚ Christopher McCandless is raised in an upper-middle class family in a metropolitan area on the East Coast. He
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The book “Into The Wild” tells the story of Chris McCandless and his journey and interactions with various people. Jon Krakauer the author wrote this book to show people what really happened so they could decide their own opinion of Chris McCandless and his story‚ instead of judging him on what the media said or critics or whoever. I personally think Chris was a nice smart person but didn’t make good decisions. One example of his bad decisions and the most prevalent one was is his decision to go
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