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    Into The Wild Book Report

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    journal during his adventures. This book talks about his life and all the troubles he gets through, up until he dies. Alex is a traveler that travels throughout everywhere. He is a hitchhiker and does not need material things or money. Into the wild, by Jon Krakauer. This is a book that a man reads a journal about a kid named Alex that wrote about his adventures and how he ends up getting stranded and dies. Alex is an adventurous person, conveyable, and a person above the law or the government.…

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    There are two different types of people in the world; one who says they’re going to do something and one who actually does it. In many cases people never do what they claim they’re going to do but in Chris McCandless story it was different. Chris McCandless wasn't your typical man, he was a man who believed that everyone should go out and experience the beautiful things in life. McCandless was a man who actually went out and pursued his dream of getting to Alaska, and lived his life the way he…

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    Chris McCandless as a person was not crazy in his cognition or lifestyle, however, his decision making at times was somewhat incompetent, especially during his time in the wild. After his college graduation, Chris decided to live a vagabond-like lifestyle throughout the country. He did not tell his parents of his plans, and embarked on his journey with the end goal of journeying Alaska. In the wilderness, he was seeking isolation from his family, a sense of self-identity, and the answer to his…

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    In the story, Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, the main character, who is Jon himself, makes one of the most tragic ascents of Mount Everest in history. Over the course of the Jon's story about his experience on Mount Everest, Jon starts to really show how much he grows as a person during one of the most difficult situations Jon has been in. But even though Jon grew a lot, he grew more loving than anything else because he started the journey with strangers, and because of their mutual love of…

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    It was a cold dark night in may of 1996 8 people were caught in a blizzard and half died on the mountain during summit attempts. Only half of the team made it out alive. The colder it got the worse it got for the worse it got for the people on top of the mountain on that night. The weather on the Mount Everest started off well. Within the space of five minutes, it changed from really a good day with a little bit of winde to desperate conditions. It was horrible, with winds up to 80 miles…

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    Callarman’s argument is the most accurate view of Into The Wild and Chris McCandless’s decision. Chris made an ignorant decision based on his current feelings and how his parents treated him. You can’t succeed in the future with your actions at this point and time, but you sure can throw out your future with your current actions. And that is exactly what Chris did, he went from graduating from Emory University, to moving into the Alaskan wilderness and dying. He had the foundation of his life…

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    In the book 'Into Thin Air', by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer tells his tale of climbing the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest. He was given this opportunity by Outside Magazine which he worked for. At first he was just supposed to write an article about the commercialism on the massive mountain. He later decides he actually wants to climb it. Little did Krakauer know he was about to take on the most disastrous trip up Everest ever. There was a large amount of money that needed to be paid to…

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    As Arthur Shopenhauer once said, “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, Chris McCandless went out to live in the wild for a few months to be independent and search for the meaning of life. I believe McCandless wanted to go out and live off the land to be independant and self reliant, he was tired of having his parents wealth, he…

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    Jon Krakauer

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    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…

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    Into Thin Air Book Review

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    Into Thin Air Book Review Involved in one of the most tragic events in Mount Everest history, Jon Krakauer organizes the events that lead up to this day on May 10, 1996 in which altogether eight people lost their lives. Krakauer originally was hired to write an article for Outside Magazine detailing the commercialism on Mount Everest. In order to write the article, he was required to climb only to Base Camp which is strictly the first base on Everest. However, Krakauer wished to reach the…

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