In order to truly justify the journey the main character departed on in “Into the Wild,” by Jon Krakauer, a reader must first understand the motives the author had for writing this nonfiction story. As a young teen, Jon Krakauer was always into adventure and nature. According to his biography, “Jon Krakauer grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father introduced him to mountaineering as an eight-year-old... After graduating from Hampshire College in 1976, Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest...For the next two decades, however, his life revolved around climbing mountains” (Krakauer Bio 1). This is a clear allusion to his main character, Chris McCandless, who also was a young college educated man from a well-to-do family who had a little money saved up when he decided to chase this dream of the
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These people who wrote letters not only insulted Chris but also Jon as he had lived this type of life. This connection between Chris and Jon’s life as well as the insults regarding their way of life is important to notice because it hints to the purpose of the book; to defend Chris and the principles they both cherish. Krakauer’s account of Chris’s life in “Into the Wild” is all shaped around defending him and his sanity. That is why it includes letters, first-hand accounts, and sometimes his own interpretations that help paint a picture of the journey. He believes that people are missing the fact that Chris was a smart, sophisticated, and generous person who made a couple of mistakes that led to his demise, instead of the idiotic, crazy man people put him out to be. The reader when interpreting this story must acknowledge this message from a determined Krakauer in order to truly understand the life of Chris. Chris’s story and sanity, which is attached to so much controversy, is easily justifiable when the perspective as well as writing techniques of Krakauer are taken into
These people who wrote letters not only insulted Chris but also Jon as he had lived this type of life. This connection between Chris and Jon’s life as well as the insults regarding their way of life is important to notice because it hints to the purpose of the book; to defend Chris and the principles they both cherish. Krakauer’s account of Chris’s life in “Into the Wild” is all shaped around defending him and his sanity. That is why it includes letters, first-hand accounts, and sometimes his own interpretations that help paint a picture of the journey. He believes that people are missing the fact that Chris was a smart, sophisticated, and generous person who made a couple of mistakes that led to his demise, instead of the idiotic, crazy man people put him out to be. The reader when interpreting this story must acknowledge this message from a determined Krakauer in order to truly understand the life of Chris. Chris’s story and sanity, which is attached to so much controversy, is easily justifiable when the perspective as well as writing techniques of Krakauer are taken into