Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.” Leo Tolstoy “Family Happiness” Jon Krakauer in his nonfiction novel Into the wild, Krakauer depicts the life of Chris McCandless as he made his way into the Alaskan Bush. Krakauer supports this by describing the literary figures that inspired Chris, In addition Krakauer describes the eyewitness events of Chris as well as describing Chris’s life before he left to the Alaskan Bush .Krakauer believes that that the way Chris lived his life should be praised rather than shunned despite most opinions of Chris being negative .

Chris had been born to his mother, Billie, while father Walt was still married to his first wife, Marcia. And two years after Chris was born, Walt McCandless fathered another child with Marcia.” "But he did not confront his parents with what he knew," Krakauer writes. "He chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal"(121). This constant act of isolation slowly lead to Chris shutting himself from friends and family and look to the Alaskan Bush as a way to escape from all of the issues that are arising instead of simply forgiving his father as he did with his beloved literary figures. Instead he continues to torment his friends and family with his disappearance and eventually with his

The feeling of disgust quickly changed to worry as they saw the potential the Chris had. Jim Gallien was one of those whose opinion of Chris quickly changed. Jim began to worry as it was obvious that he was underprepared, with nothing more than a couple pounds of rice a remington .44 hunting rifle and camping gear that would be insufficient in the Stampede Trail, yet Chris wouldn't take any improved gear due to the fact that he was taking advice of from authors and poets from England, poets who had never really been in an environment that Chris had to endure. Others who saw Chris and his knowledge and potential were alarmed to discover that he was planning to live in Alaskan wilderness for a few months most like Jim would assume he would give up “A great number give it a try, realize it is neither easy nor romantic, just damn hard work, and quickly give up and return to town with their tails between their legs, but alive and wiser for it”(Peter Christian) But Chris isn't most people he is a fool blinded by romanticism and transcendentalism to see the dangers that are in the Alaskan Wilderness, Even the author Krakauer soon realized that his ideals were foolish “nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for