Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. Anchor Books: New York, 1996
In the spring of 1992 Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and virtually disappeared. This novel by Krakauer takes readers on McCandless’s journey from when he graduated Emory University to his adventures in the Alaska tundra. This is a true story and Krakauer pieces the story together through different letters that McCandless wrote and by interviewing the people he met along his journey. Upon graduation McMandless decided to road trip and wanted to ultimately end up in Alaska, he packed up his yellow Datsun and gave his life savings of 25,000 to charity and headed out without telling anyone where he was going or how long he would be gone. Besides McCandless the other main characters are the author, Krakauer who wrote for Outdoors magazine and heard McCandless’s story and wrote an article in Outdoor magazine that got so much attention that he decided to dig deeper in the story and eventually wrote this book retelling what he thinks is McCandless’s story. The other main characters in the book are the people along the way that McCandless meets, the most important and most often character is Wayne Westerberg. He gave McCandlless a job in South Dakota that McCandless stayed at the longest and Wayne knew the most about McCandless out of all the others in his travels. The setting in this book is very important, it is the outdoors; all the different places that McCandless went and his hunger for the “wild” places where no one else has traveled and seen. The author’s style is like you are reading McCandless’s diary as well as Krakauers; which makes it very easy to read and follow.
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I would probably read this because I saw the movie and enjoyed it very much. Usually the movies are supposed to be worse than the books, so I think it would be a good read. When I saw the title, Into the Wild, I immediately thought of the movie and the actor, Emile Hirsch. But I think that if I actually read the book, I would associate it with something else rather than a gorgeous actor. The book would be appealing to me because I like the idea of a struggle to survive in the wilderness, and the thought of leaving everything behind to try and make it in the outdoors seems idealistic. Thanks for the recommendation.
i would love to read this book because it sounds very interesting and i love books about the wild and especially in Alaska. so i would love to read this book. thanks for the recommendation!
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