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Accuracy And Meaning In Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer

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In this extended essay, I want to explore the tensions between accuracy and meaning in literary non-fiction. I have chosen to analyze this matter in Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” published in 1996. The story is about the death of Christopher Johnson McCandless who died in search of meaning in the Alaskan Wilderness. The author combines fictional style to report on the story of McCandless’ life and death based on journalistic research and facts. I would like to compare and contrast the interaction and effects of different text types occurring in the book such as personal diary entries by McCandless, poetry and literary quotes, and official reports written by newspaper agencies. Inspired by the New Journalism movement in the 60s I want to conclude

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