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You would soon find out that Krakaeur’s take on what the cause of Chris’s death, the accidental poisoning by eating a wrong plant is actually untrue. However if you think Krakauer succeeds in an objective account you would want to read the surrounding debate about his actions, how people have interpreted his journal entries and the like.
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It is difficult with such literary license then to agree that the author has “ tried to minimize my authorial presence” pg x.
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Yet this is much more difficult to do as Krakauer presents a non chronological account and intersperses it with chapters about his own youthful experiences with family difficulties and mountain climbing brushes with death. An historical chronicle of McCandless tragic journey into the wild. One can then also attempt to see the novel as an attempted objective account of McCandless’ adventure, indeed a biography of sorts. If that’s the case, then you need to ask whether Krakauer succeeds in his attempt. Yet the above statement by Krakauer indicates he believes that he is writing a biography, just that he’s not impartial which would then exclude taking the book as a fictional account built around the framework of an historical character. I interrupt McCandless’s story with fragments of a narrative drawn from my own youth.” then last of all, a very important statement found here when he speaks about whether McCandless was admirable or a reckless idiot “ My convictions should be apparent soon enough.” Doesn’t such a literary structure direct the reader to a specific conclusion and does it leave the reader really able to “ form his or her own opinion of Chris McCandless”? pg xi There he tells us that he “ spent a year trying to understand McCandless”, Authors note pg x, and even more significantly “ I won’t claim to be an impartial biographer. One still must wonder how much of Tolstoy McCandless internalised since in his later life McCandless, to a large extent, avoided the destitute even though he certainly seemed to reject wealth.įor what literary purpose does Krakauer include these quotes? I believe we find an indication in the Authors note at the beginning of the book. and certainly the spiritual side of life. London and Thoreau have much to say about the external realm of nature whereas Tolstoy focused a lot in the internal realm or relationships, “ denial of wealth and privilege to wander among the destitute” pg x. Thoreau gives a certain slant on the beauty of nature saying in his novel ‘Ktaadn’, quoted by Krakauer in chapter 17 “ Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful.” pg 171. Do they want to justify the authors understanding of the life and behaviour of McCandless and in a sense try to justify it? Do not such quotes by authors such as Jack London, and in chapter 2, the quote by Chris himself “ Jack London is King – Alexander Supertramp May 1992” and Leo Tolstoy in chapter 3 influence the reader to a certain reading of McCandless’ “thought process”? For example Thoreau and Tolstoy were two of McCandless’ favourite authors, so much so he carried books by Tolstoy, Gogol and Thoreau into the wild with him and annotated parts of the books with his own comments. Just what purpose are they intended to serve. In such an analysis you would need to ask what importance and impact each of the chapter quotes that begin each chapter. That is, how much are they the theories and opinions of Krakauer about Chris McCandless whilst purporting to tell the story of McCandless as he hits the road on an adventure to Alaska? You would then have to ask just how much of this story is fiction. That is, it is a fictional novel which has used the historical situation of the life and death of Chris McCandless as a framework. One can see it as a modern “historical novel” by Jon Krakauer in which he gives a portrayal of the story as he sees it, of Christopher McCandless. Into the wild is a novel that can be analysed from a couple of angles. But the stark reality is that somebody, a person made in God’s image, who had a family despite whether he chose to acknowledge it or not, and who met people who cared about him, was lost. ‘Nemo gets lost’Nemo gets lost – or does he? Nemo we are told in the novel is Latin for nobody. Consider also fyrefly's book blog for a helpful round up of some of the words used in the book as well as a good review. Some very simple book reviews can be found on the internet, bookrags have a study guide to buy, as do MonkeyNotes, and pop critics wrote a good review likening Chris to Jack Kerouac' On the road, a similarity I also picked up on when reading this book.