Save Wild Life Essay

Krakauer’s Into the Wild, Chris McCandless is presented as a selfless man for feeding the homeless and donating money to OXFAM, a charity dedicated to solving the hunger crisis. However, he constantly leaves…

the wild of Alaska. This statement can be viewed as deeply ironic considering McCandless intentionally severed his connections from society to be alone. What was his motive to do something so drastic? Jon Krakauer, a man of adventure and thrill seeking searched for an answer, and in his search he discovered the similarities between himself and Chris. Captivated by McCandless’ journey for self-discovery, Krakauer wrote a nonfiction book titled Into the Wild, about Chris McCandless and his life…

Chris McCandless, was at peace in the end. He found everything that he was searching for by the surroundings in nature and pure isolation. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer demonstrates that isolation is something that will help achieve inner peace, serenity and experience a raw exhilaration of human emotions that can only be found in the core of isolation. Krakauer placed many stories or fellow adventurers whose stories ran parallel to McCandless’s, in which they demonstrate how isolation helps…

ETHOS 1: One of the many reasons Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild was because of his emotional connection with Chris McCandless through the comparison of experience and personality. Despite the fact the two individuals never met, it was obvious to the author that McCandless shared much of the same childhood. Krakauer used the strategy of publicly addressing his relationship with his own father to prove that he had the credentials to explain Walt McCandless’s impending future with his son.…

yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity and conservatism (qtd. in Krakauer 57). Abandoning the routine of waking up at the same time everyday to take a shower, grab a cup of joe and head into work is not an easy task. Chris McCandless had an education, money, and car and gave it all up to follow his dream. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer gives insight into the mentality of Chris. The reader quickly learned that…

in the way that humans were designed to function. The toll it takes on humans is the drastic increase in vulnerability to mental illness. Isolation has a detrimental effect on a person’s mental state, way of living and communication throughout their life. The idea that isolation causes mental illness, displayed in many different ways, is explored in literature. Confined, confused…

Into the Wild describes the story of Christopher McCandless. He hitchhiked in 1992 to Alaska where he was found dead four months later in a deserted bus in the Alaskan wilderness. Author Jon Krakauer uses accounts from people who interacted with Chris and personal research to account the story of Alex Supertramp, another name proclaimed by Chris. The book starts with the description of Chris’s last day in society before starting his journey in the Alaskan wild. It shifts to the events that led…

may spend there life looking to make as much money as possible and to have the nicest house and the fastest car, There are some people that go through life searching for fulfillment trying to learn more about themselves and find there purpose in life or a spiritual calling. Which is the best way to live your life some may ask, is it better to live for human made items or is your life supposed to be for you to connect with others around you and find your purpose? If the reason for life is to find…

Was the pain Chris McCandless brought to his loved ones justified? “Nothing was more important to Chris than truth. He believed strongly that absolute truth should be part of everything you do in this life.” (Carine McCandless) To those who knew Christopher McCandless, he was a charming young man with a bright future ahead of him. He was brimming with self-confidence and had a profound respect for nature. During the May of 1990, after graduating from Emory University as a top athlete with high…

Trends contribute to the credibility of a book. For my book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, I picked three trends that I thought demonstrated this. My trends for this book were character trends for Christopher Johnson McCandless, “Alex”. Relentless determination, breaking free and curiosity/wonder led to Chris’s adventure throughout the book. I also pick the trend of reporting or journalism that Jon Krakauer uses to tell Chris’s story. The first trend, relentless determination, is shown by…