" Through his journalistic approach in his long form feature piece, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer is able to piece together the chilling story of Chris McCandless and give a better understanding of this self-made vagabond through extensive research and Krakauer's own personal connection with McCandless. ... Although Krakauer chiefly uses hard evidence, he does occasionally stray away from that approach. In several instances, Krakauer shares his own theories; the most prominent of them regards the death of Chris McCandless. ... Similarly, Krakauer's multiple interviews with McCand...

• Word Count: 800
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Krakauer does a good job of explaining how the highest point on earth was discovered with a short history lesson on Everest. Krakauer writes of the many expeditions that scaled Everest and how over the years the attempts were becoming more for the wealthy egotistical extremists who were in it for the publicity rather than those mountaineers who were in it for the love of the sport. ... Krakauer retells his Everest account in a way that even a person who knows nothing about climbing could understand and follow the story line. ... The story started off as a light-hearted recollection of a man...

• Word Count: 721
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel Into Thin Air, written by Jon Krakauer, has a variety of themes throughout the tragic account, but one seems to stay constant throughout. ... Rob Hall, who was the leader of Krakauer's group, had waited two hours past the set turn-around time just so client Doug Hansen could finally reach the top of the mountain. ... I have to take care of Scott I go fast down"" (Krakauer 296). ... This catastrophic journey that Jon Krakauer took shall always be recognized not only for the loyal men and women who died, but also for the loyal men and women who survived the most devastating eve...

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• Grade Level: High School

My thesis statement tells about Krakauer's obsession and how I will discuss it throughout the paper. ... My question was why did Krakauer become so concerned and intrigued by the life of Chris McCandless. ... Into the Wild, a book by Jon Krakauer, is an exploration of this drive for a higher meaning, this need to connect to oneself by challenging limits, by jumping into the unknown. ... In Into the Wild , Krakauer explores the rhetorical, questions the unanswerable. ... Furthermore, Chris's story awakened the ghosts of Krakauer's own youth. ...

• Word Count: 2090
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer describes the story of Pat Tillman and how he progressed through life and how his death triggered the emotional response of his family to get the truth. ... Marie explains "Pat decided that going into the military was what he needed to do " (Krakauer 159), he shows an understanding that nothing lasts forever and knowing himself he would not be content with what he considers a life of relative ease (Krakauer 158). ... Overreacting to the perceived threat to Hechtle, pat went berserk " (Krakauer 47). ...

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• Has Bibliography

The novel Into Thin Air is about Jon Krakauer, who works for a magazine, and upon his own request is sent to Mount Everest to climb the mountain and write a story about his experience. ... Ever since Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air was published. ...

• Word Count: 1417
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. ... Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. ... The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page. ...

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Jon Krakauer generally showed most of these because he was the one telling the story, but the people he displayed how other people were feeling through what he saw and interpreted. ... This is demonstrated when Jon's wife Lynda calls him in Chapter 6. ... At the same part as the climbers being in denial about the climbers, Jon is also in a state of repression and minimizing. ... For Jon to believe that his guide is only accepting the best of people is an idiocy. ... In this case, Jon is just trying to make things sound like they aren't as bad as they are and is definitely minimi...

• Word Count: 1058
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• Grade Level: High School

Language and Composition 9 October 2014 Into the Wild Essay Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer follows a young Chris McCandless, a college graduate looking to adventure into the depths of the Alaskan wilderness, leaving his family and friends behind. ... In the book Krakauer made a connection to Chris McCandless and Alex. ... When Krakauer started off his book he seemed indecisive as to whether McCandless was sane or not. ... Krakauer classifies McCandless as a lot of things that are usually stereotypical. ... Closer to the end of the book Krakauer made a connection to McCandless. ...

• Word Count: 789
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• Grade Level: High School

Jon Krakauer, a mountain climber and writer, retraced his steps in an effort to find out why a bright, healthy, likeable young person would meet such a fate. ... It makes for a riveting story, but as Krakauer himself says, when you see McCandless's mother arrive at the site of her son's protracted death, you cannot help feeling a kind of disgust for a boy who would do this to his family. ...

• Word Count: 259
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a book that stirs the senses and awakens the inner rebel of every person. ... One strategy that Krakauer uses is in his description words. ... Burres of Alaska stated, "He helped me a lot- (Krakauer 43). ... He was playful, like a little kid- ( Krakauer 42, 43). ... Then Krakauer goes on to say that Krakauer was quick to forgive these shortcomings. ...

• Word Count: 1445
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, poses the question "to recall how forcefully (they) were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth." (Krakauer 221) To me the passions and longing of youth are the dreams and desires that every individual has when they are young. ... " (Krakauer 207) I feel that this passage expresses how McCandless feels about his journey so far. ... I think we all poorly understood Everett" (Krakauer 221) is a great example of how we, as adults, forget what it's like to be young. ... I strongly agree with Krakauer, sometimes whe...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

That's the first paragraph of Jon Krakauer's gripping book Into the Wild (published one year before his best-selling Into Thin Air). ... I was hooked by Krakauer's narrative from the start, but for a different reason. ... After reading Krakauer's account, however, I have a better understanding of what made McCandless tick. ... I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality, Krakauer writes. ... What is certain, however, is the fact that whatever stance Krakauer took it would be a highly readable one. ...

• Word Count: 971
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• Grade Level: High School

As a nave reader, one may be forced or compelled to side with the wits and the persuasion of Jon Krakauer's analysis of Chris McCandless. ... In the beginning of the novel Krakauer introduces us to the people McCandless met along his journey. Through the descriptions and assumptions made by each of these peers, Krakauer slowly reveals the mind, thoughts and ways of Chris McCandless. ... (Krakauer 122). ... Real courteous, and he didn't cuss or use a lot of that there slang-(Krakauer 159). ...

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In Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, the protagonist, Christopher McCandless does exactly that. ... " Krakauer (113) At a young age, he could passionately talk about things concerning hunger for hours. ... " Krakauer (63) He never wasted anything, knowing the existence of starving people everywhere. ... " Krakauer (29) However, he kept several jobs throughout his journey. ... " Krakauer (166) Unlike his family, McCandless valued things other than material goods. ...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The cost included the lives of twenty-four men, fifteen expeditions, and a lapse of 101 years before the summit of Everest was ever reached (Krakauer 14). ... Yet "in the spring of 1993, on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, [ranging] 294 climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side" (Krakauer 22). ... Adventure Consultants' clients included a lawyer, a Federal Express employer, a pathologist, a cardiologist, an anesthesiologist, a publisher, a postal worker, and a journalist (Krakauer 37). ... Jon Krakauer, a journalist hired by...

• Word Count: 1610
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The cost included the lives of twenty-four men, fifteen expeditions, and a lapse of 101 years before the summit of Everest was ever reached (Krakauer 14). ... Yet "in the spring of 1993, on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, [ranging] 294 climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side" (Krakauer 22). ... Adventure Consultants' clients included a lawyer, a Federal Express employer, a pathologist, a cardiologist, an anesthesiologist, a publisher, a postal worker, and a journalist (Krakauer 37). ... Jon Krakauer, a journalist hired by...

• Word Count: 1610
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless leaves behind the world that he has always known in pursuit of this something larger. ... Everett Ruess, a figure that Krakauer compares to McCandless because of his similarity in journey and life story, writes letters throughout his adventures which "reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and Chris McCandless" (91), by saying: "I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. ... Chris once again shows his difference in morals when Krakauer quotes about the time of his life at home: "H...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Jon Krakauer's "Into The Wild," Christopher McCandless possesses an understanding of modern day society far beyond most youth. In much the same way, I often find myself questioning many of the same issues as McCandless. Having been raised by parents who held the typical core value of "The America...

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In his story of the ill-fated expeditions that attempted to climb Everest in the spring of 1996, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer writes of the primitive conditions he and his team faced in the small hamlet of Lobuje, one of the waypoints they rested at before making the push to Everest. ... As Krakauer states, "Hard currency from trekkers and climbers, as well as grants from international relief organizations supported by trekkers and climbers, have funded schools and medical clinics, reduced infant mortality, built footbridges, and brought hydroelectric power to Namche and other villages."... Kra...

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• Grade Level: High School

On air, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a bigot and questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority (Bauder). ... Great, I'm so happy that he grew up in suburban middle class New Jersey home with everyone you could ever imagine" (Krakauer). ...

• Word Count: 455
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is sometimes said that nothing in life that is worth having comes easily. I have noticed that what often separates those who attain their hopes and dreams from those who do not is that they possess a certain drive and determination to stop at nothing to achieve those dreams. Although the two...

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• Grade Level: High School

Independence Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild portrayed Chris McCandless as an energetic young man captivated with the concept of independence. ... Krakauer says,"If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees" (18). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect...

• Word Count: 862
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• Grade Level: High School