primarily as means for Christopher McCandless to challenge himself‚ and as such‚ they illustrate his hubris. Not only does he fear the desert insufficiently; he behaves as though it has been put there purely in order to test his competence. "Magic Bus" Presumably named by McCandless after a song by British rock band The Who‚ the bus stands for the good fortune he repeatedly encounters in his odyssey through the American West. After all‚ what are the odds when McCandless forges into the bush that an abandoned
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In my opinion I believe the authors main point in this essay was to vindicate anything that Chris McCandless did in his life. When reading I could definitely sense Krakauers natural liking for McCandless. He was sympathetic to McCandless‚ based on Krakauers sense of a shared experience in their youth and up until McCandless eventual death and Krakauers perceived near death experience on the Devils Thumb. I believe the author’s main point and perspective was formed from his own experience and relationship
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quotes from books that Chris McCandless highlighted himself or Krakauer chose‚ presumably because he felt they relate to Chris’s ideology and situation. Krakauer also included quotes from figures whom Chris revered‚ such as Jack London and Henry David Thoreau. His main purpose in incorporating these epigraphs was to draw inferences about the person that Christopher McCandless was. Jack London‚ and Henry David Thoreau both share one commonality: Christopher McCandless respected their ideologies. One
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main character of the book. In Into The Wild‚ the author Jon Krakauer includes stories of others for more than a comparison. Many people believed that Chris McCandless was an outrageous rebel. In the story Into the Wild‚ Krakauer includes stories of others and himself to make Chris McCandless not look crazy‚ but admirable. Chris McCandless was a bright man. He graduated high school with good grades‚ he went traveling that summer in his yellow Datsun. He then returned to attend college at Emory
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Christopher McCandless was a confused person who while in the wilderness was seeking whom he was and trying to figure out during time what went wrong with his family. He was an individual who went through what he believed in. He would follow many of the footsteps of others like himself and went with it everywhere he went. McCandless would show many talents during his school years and his goals in life‚ but when he found out about the family that his father previously had it would break him. If
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Into The Wild Essay Jon Krakauer wrote the book “Into the Wild”‚ and it is about a young man named Christopher McCandless who literally takes a journey into the wild. As the book started off it was clearly indicated that McCandless would be dead by the end of his journey. This tells us that whatever he was doing out there was probably not a smart thing to be doing. Christopher may come off as a sympathetic young man with a profound moral cause who is seeking a higher truth because of all the
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uses text and design features to make it appeal to the reader. The maps help the readers in tracing the young man’s odyssey. The photo on the first page instantly catches the reader’s attention and imagination. While the emotional story about the McCandless parent’s visit to the site on the book’s epilogue gives a satisfying ending to the readers. The maps are useful. The two page map that is also the first map shown in the book has the illustration of the route that Chris took to get from Atlanta
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the end of Chapter 2‚ Krakauer says of McCandless‚ Driving west out of Atlanta‚ he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself‚ one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. TO symbolize the complete severance from his previous life‚ he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Supertramp‚ master of his own destiny. (23) These are some pretty strong assertions about what McCandless was trying to do. Do you believe them at
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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. The Anchorage couple had been too upset by the implication of the note and the overpowering odor
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McCandless was brave enough to do things most people would not even think about doing. "He was looking for more adventure and freedom than today’s society gives people‚” comments one of Chris’s friends" (Krakauer 174). What modern society offers did not appeal to Chris McCandless; he wanted a different life that most people had themselves. He saw the influences society puts on our lives and decided he did not want to live that way. “No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now
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