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Chris McCandless was deeply bitter toward his parents, calling their behavior toward him "irrational...oppressive...disrespectful and insulting" (Chapter 7). He thought they were...
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In my copy of Into the Wild, the 1996 Anchor Books edition, the quote "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED" is on page 189. As page numbers vary from edition to edition in books however, it will be...
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Chapter Six is the section of this novel that deals with the relationship between Franz and Chris McCandless. You would do well to re-read it and pay particular attention to how Ronald Franz's...
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The main similarities between these men and MCandless is their single-minded determination to conquer some aspect of nature and of themselves. Krakauer explains the reasons for highlighting the...
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The quotes that precede each chapter are examples of epigraphs: quotations, sayings, or other information that relates to the themes in each chapter. These are common in both fiction and...
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Chris McCandless was an idealist who "took life's inequities to heart". During his senior year in high school, he became very concerned with racial oppression in South Africa, and spoke...
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Readers should look to chapter 8 for the answer to this question. This is one of the chapters in which author John Krakauer spends significant amounts of time discussing similarities between...
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The quote from Doctor Zhivago that opens Chapter 18 was highlighted by Chris and is relevant on a number of levels. First and most importantly, it spoke to Chris's need to spend time alone to...
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A lot of questions about Chris McCandless remain unanswered. Krakauer's account of Chris's final year of life is interesting and as accurate as he can make it based on Chris's letters and...
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Ronald has a deep-seated need to be attached to someone. There's a gaping void in his life which only Alex (Chris McCandless) can truly fill. An only child, whose mother and father were also the...
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Chris didn't really hate his parents; in fact, going by his letters (all sent before he vanished from their lives) he still loved and respected them. However, he felt trapped by their insistence on...
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When writing an argument in favor of McCandless, be prepared to meet a crossfire of opinions regarding the topic. Therefore, to argue that McCandless is a "hero", you should have both the evidence...
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Chris McCandless changed his name to Alex Supertramp because he wanted to leave every aspect of his former self behind. When Chris McCandless became Alex, he was doing more than changing his name....
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There are a lot of different literary devices used in Krakauer's book Into the Wild. Chapters 1 and 2 are no exceptions. A common literary device that Krakauer uses throughout the book (and...
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In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer makes extensive use of Christopher McCandless' diaries. And it's not difficult to see why. In writing McCandless' story, Krakauer wanted to give his readers some idea...
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Given that you are only reading about him from other people's accounts and from Krakauer's own biased view of his life, it is difficult to decipher exactly what Chris' goals were. He clearly wanted...
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You might like to approach this question by considering the instances when Chris worked as a law abiding citizen and did nothing to try and defy societal laws and conventions. Every description of...
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The author of Into the Wild is John Krakauer. He makes use of a lot of different literary devices. I'll pick three literary devices that I believe that Krakauer uses to great effect during the...
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By recounting the story of Chris McCandless in a non-chronological way, Krakauer reveals that he is not just telling the story of McCandless’ life and death, but is concerned to explore the motives...
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Chapter Twelve opens with a quote by Henry David Thoreau, McCandless'literary mentor: "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me the truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in...
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Chris McCandless was an adventurer all of his life. In Krakauer's book, the chapter entitled, "Chesapeake Beach" we read about Chris's childhood. Walter McCandless Jr. describes Chris as a boy who...
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Chris McCandless faced an identity crisis in which he failed to balance realistic and romantic views of himself. Ultimately, he convinced himself that his book-hero persona Alexander Supertramp...
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As a writing teacher, I'm forever imploring my students to formulate their thesis statements in a positive way. In other words, think of a thesis statement in terms of a "position statement" or...
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McCandless fills a void in Franz's life. The old man is bitterly lonely, having lost his wife and only child in an accident, and he enjoys McCandless's company with "an affection (that) was...
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Chris McCandless had a romantic fascination with nature that dominated his approach to seeking a way to live within nature. Unfortunately, his impatience and lack of logic and planning worked at...
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The writing prompt that is given is fairly vague, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. First, decide how to define "young people of a certain mind." What exactly is the certain mind that causes a...
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Chris McCandless deliberately cut himself off from society in a journey to find himself. In doing so, he made the mistake of never fully revealing his location to others, preventing them from...
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Chris McCandless' relationship with his father was strained at best. Chris was an opinionated, determined, and stubborn young man with high ideals and little room for compromise. His father is a...
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Into the Wild, the Sean Penn film based on the Jon Krakauer book of the same name, tells the story of Chris McCandless, a young man who hitchhiked and camped around America before eventually dying...
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Chris had a complicated relationship with his parents, particularly with his father, Walt. In Chapter 11 of Into The Wild, Krakauer describes Chris's childhood. Walt was a perfectionist, who pushed...
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Into the Wild is structured into chapters, with each chapter headed by quotes, diary entries, and postcards from Chris McCandless; these help define the themes of each chapter, as well as providing...
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Chris McCandless is the definition of rebellion. His spiritual or emotional awakening, for lack of a better term, has led him to basically quit society. He donates his college fund to OxFam,...
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There is plenty of evidence in this great account of the life of Chris McCandless that could be used to suggest that he was very foolish. You might want to start off, however, by examining the...
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According to a letter he wrote to Ron Franz, Chris McCandless believed that true happiness comes from experiencing new things. He says that ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly...
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A number of elements come together to provide Chris's purpose for walking into the wild. Much of his motivation was related to his parents and the resentment he harbored toward both of them. He...
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Chris McCandless was an admirer of Henry David Thoreau, and adopted many of the writer's ideals in his own life. He sought simplicity in his own life and tried to live without adhering to material...
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The bus became the symbol of Chris McCandless's facing his ultimate challenge of living—and ultimately dying—on his own in the wild. Chris went into the Alaskan wilderness in a deliberately...
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One way to define ethics is to understand it as doing the right thing even when it costs one personally. An ethical person lives out his or her beliefs, walking the walk instead of talking the...
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This is a very interesting question to consider, as Krakauer in his riveting account of Chris McCandless's life reports the way in which otehrs dismiss him as an example of arrogance, naivety and...
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Syntax is the arrangement of words that make up a sentence. It is closely related to diction. Diction is the author's word choice, and syntax determines how the author uses those words within a...
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Chris McCandless, or as he was also known, Alexander Supertramp, had a rather unique idea of the American Dream. While, at it's core, it was certainly modeled after "life, liberty and the pursuit...
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In terms of this question, chapter 1 can almost be completely ignored. The entire chapter focuses on McCandless's interaction with Gallien in Alaska. McCandless's sister, his parents, and...
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It's often been said that there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. And it's fair to say that Chris McCandless crossed that line when he embarked upon his death trip to Alaska. Yes, he...
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Chris McCandless was inspired by the writings of Thoreau, Emerson, Tolstoy, and Jack London to live a non-sedentary existence and experience the natural world without the comforts and amenities of...
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Two quotes follow, the first being from A Journal of the Plague Year: [A] close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the...
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Chris McCandless is described as a charismatic individual, who left an indelible impression on everyone he met during his hiatus throughout the western United States and Alaska. As a transient...
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Chris meets Ron Franz in Chapter Six, when Franz gave him a ride back to a hobo camp. Franz took a liking to Chris, and they spent a lot of time together during the next month. When Chris left,...
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The biggest difference for me, and the reviewer below, was the fact that the movie was really showing the fact that Sean Penn loves the idea of Chris McCandless. Krakauer certainly did too in the...
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In using pathos, an author appeals to the emotions of the reader. To be convincing, a written work must use both pathos and logos. Logos is an appeal to logic: it persuades through use of facts,...
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The details of Chris’ graduation and then the beginning of his fatal adventure are detailed in Chapter 4. The reader is told that he graduated in May 1990 and that his family attended his...
