Columbine By John Krakauer Analysis

Throughout history, there has been a reasonable logic that reading and writing leads to a normal life, but this logic is terribly skewed in a rather narrow minded viewpoint. In Richard Miller’s stories of Columbine, Jon Krakauer’s study of Chris McCandless, Mary Karr’s autobiography shows the various degrees of reading and writing inflicted on specific cases. In each of these stories, they have profound conclusions about reading and writing ranging in total with a lack of communication or in the form of curiosity or interaction. A lack of communication can occur with the relative isolation or selfishness of any one person who believes that they are wiser than anyone else or believes they are outsiders. In contrast, a form of curiosity or interaction …show more content…
Communication between individuals could have exposed these shooters to new ideas, new positive relationship, and an alternative reality. Even with this event occurring and passing there was no form of action taken place; they were just left in the dust and of related people too. Similar to Columbine, there are a similar problems of reading and writing in Jon Krakauer's story of Christopher McCandless. Christopher McCandless was an energetic man who was thriving for a sense of adventure. He had everything he wanted as a young child: a loving family and a college degree. But, he was striving for something more in his life as a form of self indulgence of seeing the world. The basis of his outlook and his thirst of seeing the world, which would ultimately lead to his death, was based on fictional stories as stated with Krakauer saying “the young man was so susceptible to being seduced by the writings of London, Thoreau, Muir, and Tolstoy.” (444) The ultimate downfall of McCandless was his selfish attitudes of assuming things given the understanding that he knows better than anyone else. This can be seen with him embarking on the first few days of his only adventure to Alaska, where he “believe[d] more in the