Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

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Into the wild Into the wild is a book of adventure mystery and provides an example of how family relationships can affect a person's life. This is why I believe Krakauer’s purpose of writing this book must have been because he wanted to get all the facts. He wanted Chris McCandless’ family to be able to know what happened to Chris as well as all those who heard about his tragic death in the Alaskan Bush. Krakauer's obsession of wanting to know “Why” Chris died is the biggest reason for writing this book and I happened to enjoy it. Krakauer's style of writing and how he set it up is very interesting and quite nice. His ability to engage the audience in the story by jumbling up the order of the book and moving stories around really keeps the reader guessing and wanting more. …show more content…
We uncover this side of him quite quickly as he addressed this in his introduction “... my fascination with McCandless remained long after that issue of Outside was replaced on the newsstand…”(Author note) Krakauer wanted to understand more about why McCandless left everything (mind you that krakauer was a lot like McCandless in his reckless ways) and that is what lead him to writing the book. This was not the only reason though. He also really wanted to provide the story of Chris McCandless in detail and accurately for his family as a tribute, to those who met Chris so they could get a full report, and also to the general public as a follow up to his

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