Analysis Of Death Of An Innocent By Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer’s “Death of an Innocent” appeared on the Independent’s website on 11 April 1993. Krakauer, an American writer and mountaineer, mainly known for his works about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing has produces yet another amazing news article among numerous others. This specific news article in fact have been the highlight of his writing career as it paved him to write his best-selling non-fiction books—Into the Wild. After reading “Death of an Innocent” by Krakauer, I have found myself left wondering of the perpetual psyche of Chris McCandless throughout his extreme odysseys. During my reading, I sense that Chris was not an ordinary person who lived according to the preprogrammed dogma of the society. I was constantly figuring out what kind of person Chris really was. My amazement towards Chris’s stems when I found out that Chris was not a vagrant that roams the land just to find reckless adventures, Chris’s history and achievements prove that he was more than that. After I have finish reading his …show more content…
I could feel the connectedness of the characters in every unfolding event throughout the story and how all of them were affected by the choices Chris made in his reckless, foreboding odysseys. The author reveal the story with great details and even stated the spoken words of the characters. This in return, made me feel the weight of every sentence and how the people that were involved must have felt like knowing that they could not help Chris in his last dying moments. Near the end of the story, I was imagining how the people that love Chris all their lives or just for the short moments with him reacted when they were struck by the shear devastating news of Chris’s death. I suppose the author have cleverly written the story to the point that I could relate in a personal level to the characters in the