Into The Wild Rhetorical Analysis

Dialectical Journal: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauker

Passage: “My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of

light in your life. It is is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances” (Krakauker 57).

( R ): For most of the novel, Chris possesses a sense of invincibility. He places no limits on himself and is a visionary who considers no task too difficult for him. From the passage, it is also evident that he believes that to live a fulfilling life, one must learn to go out and get what he/she wants, instead of settling for being passive. By writing in such a driven, motivational way, it really shows that he thinks that the sky is the limit; “all you have to do is reach for it” (Krakauker 57). Chris’s attitude applies not only to Ron, to whom he wrote this letter to, but also to many others as well. Many people place restrictions on what they can achieve in life based on the resources available to them or …show more content…
In spite of this, the narrator explains that Chris rejected this notion, instead trying to find “freedom” after feeling restrained for so long. This passage is especially significant to the novel because it tries to justify the actions of Chris. Previously in the novel, the narrator described that many people thought of Chris as reckless and impulsive because of his mentality and the way he ended up dying in the Alaskan wilderness. However, this passage tries to place some of the blame on society, claiming that it restricting Chris. Moreover, by using the words “idiosyncratic” and “elegant”, the narrator tries to portray Chris in a positive light in order to help explain his actions and to convince the reader that Chris was a good person who was simply

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Rhetorical Analysis Of Into The Wild