Into the Wild Essay

Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction narrative Into The Wild is about 22-year-old, college graduate Chris Mccandless who leaves on a two-year adventure on the road and long time dream to live off the Alaskan Wild, so he can find himself and so he did. McCandless burned all identification, donated his life savings of $25,000 to charity, left everything behind including his family, and hit the road and made his final destination in the Alaskan Wild for 110 days before he died of starvation and was found 19…

As a rule, what surrounds a character in a book, either a different culture, or geography, tends to change their moral principles. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is a perfect example of how even though someone has everything they need, they can end up doing insane things. Mccandless, the main character, is affected by extreme environmental surroundings, because his thinking shifts from being brave to feeling morally guilty . Cristopher, used to have all he wished, but because of his…

between them. After his father’s affair, Chris seemed to view all of their gifts as bribery, and as a result, rejected them. This lead to a mutual lack of understanding between Chris and his parents, which no doubt was part of what drove Chris to the wild. There is a small part in every human that has a desire to “break out of the box” in some aspect of their life. Whether that box is of their own creation, or constructed by the expectations of others, it’s only natural that humans feel pressure…

A well known climber and author, Jon Krakauer, the author of Into The Wild, implies in chapter eight that Chris isn’t the unique individual people make him out to be. Krakauer tells the stories of several young men going out into the wild much like Chris McCandless. He develops this idea by using rhetorical devices such as the epigraphs that open the chapter which serve to foreshadow the chapter’s content as well as Chris’s later demise. Krakauer also draws analogies between other young men and…

The book made by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, was able to demonstrate a fantastic story of a man going through conflicts that he was able to find the solution throughout the story. One conflict that he had to deal with had to relate to nature. The protagonist of the story is Christopher Johnson McCandless who handles with this nature related. In the book it says that he left his car because it was destroyed. His solution to this conflict was that he had to set out his journey on foot. In the…

The Call of the Wild by Jack London, is a story about Buck, a huge, four-year-old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog, Who is living a life in California's Santa Clara Valley owned by the town’s judge, Judge Miller. Buck’s life in Santa Clara is the best life a dog could be given in his point of view. For Judge Miller, Buck is the most prized animal that the Judge owns. Currently while Buck is living his, as he says, “sun-kissed” life, gold is discovered in the North in Alaska, and…

When Chris completely abandons his life, he travels for two years moving all along the southwestern United States, and eventually moves to the Magic Bus in Alaska. This bus is where Chris’s dead body is found in September of 1992, along with an S.O.S note he wrote when he realized he is close to death. The environment in which Chris lived for that extended period of time is vital to his story; this isn’t like a boy scouting trip in which you bring your grocery store graham crackers, marshmallows…

The Minimalistic Actions of Alex Supertramp What does it mean to be a minimalist? The answer lies in the evidence Chris leaves behind during his wild adventure to Alaska. One Transcendentalist principle is minimalism. In Jon Krakauer’s book, Into the Wild, Chris chose to be a minimalist. He lives with only the bare minimum-- those things he thinks are important for survival. David Thoreau once wrote, “I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential…

In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Portraying leadership is an important essential. For the reason, Buck represents it throughout the story. By being his own leader in a domestic household, overcoming obstacles in the great outdoors of Alaska, and along with him overcoming other dogs to become head of the pack. Personal leadership will show through in times of need. During the time Buck was a domestic house dog, he had many forms of leadership in which one was, “Buck was neither a house dog…

The novel Into the wild by Jon Krakauer is about a graduate student from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The graduate student, Christopher Johnson Mccandless, decides that his life isn’t right for him so he journeys to Alaska in hope of being able to live in peace. On May 12, 1990, he tells his parents that he was going to be going on a road trip using his yellow Datsun, but he was actually planning on leaving and not coming back. Later that year during June, he sends his final college…