Throughout the book Krakauer regularly refers to different mediums of his investigation, predominantly McCandless's journal entries and interviews with people McCandless encountered on his journeys, in order to give shape to the tramp's long trek. ... Krakauer takes a detour from his usual writing style to tell a vivid personal story to give insight on McCandless's decisions and question whether those decisions were as irrational as many of McCandless's critics made them out to be. ... Through interviews, journal entries, letters, and the addition of Krakauer's own sto...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

"In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference.... In more recent writing on enslaved women, there is much mention on the identity slaves forged for themselves, which was developed through various modes of resistance. ...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate