Labeling of McCandless in Jon Krakauers Into the Wild Essay

Many people get sensible and feel miserable at the sight of cruel remarks on what they believe is sacred. Jon Krakauer wrote the book, Into the wild, to express his thoughts about his disapproval on what several people assume about Christopher McCandless, the main character. This people label McCandless stupid for leaving to Alaska without the vital equipment. To prove that he is not â€Å"stupid† for doing this he used appeal to pathos, appeal to logos and appeal to ethos. By comparing Krakauer’s own life experiences and other peoples too to McCandless, he gave a little perspective and demonstrated that the negative remarks of many people were not correct for someone else had performed the same thing. Krakauer compared his youth mistakes†¦show more content†¦People go into many things to try to escape their life. Some people start eating a lot, while other stop. Some people go into drugs, while others start drinking. Some people go into depression, while others are allured to take high risk actions. Maybe Christopher McCandless took this action because his relationship with his dad was not the best. Krakauer associated his relationship with his father to McCandless and his dad. â€Å"Like McCandless, figures of male authority aroused in me a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please† (Krakauer 134). Krakauer feels the pressure to succeed and the desire to rebel, because his father constantly pushed him to perfection, like McCandless father. Chris could no longer deal with his life and spitefully left everything he knew for his dad’s high expectations. â€Å"I got into my head to climb a mountain called the Devils Thumb† (Krakauer 134). To show his father he can do it, he revealed in the book his thought processes during the climb. At the end he came to the conclusion that his method of thinking could have killed him something that ultimately happened to McCandless. To sum it up, by comparing his own and other people’s experiences the author Jon Krakauer appeal to pathos to give a little perspective on why Chris McCandless is not a young foolish kid as several people assume he is. Everybody does mistakes and Jon Krakauer tries to use appeal to logos to explain that the cause of Chris McCandless death was a mistakeShow MoreRelatedJon Krakauer’s Into the Wild and Tim O’Brien’s How to Tell War Story1863 Words   |  8 Pagesin the study of Chris McCandless journey to Alaska, from Jon Krakauer’s â€Å"Selections from Into the Wild†. Many argued the motives behind McCandless’ escape from society because readers translated McCandless’ experiences differently due to his journal lacking all of his experiences. Those experiences translated formed a variety of truths but they didn’t convince Krakauer, so he hiked the very mountains McCandless hiked in an attempt to retain the same experiences as McCandless. Krakauer was unsuccessfulRead MoreComparison Of Into The Wild, By Cheryl Strayed And Into The Wild936 Words   |  4 Pageswith the natural world. Although Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Into the Wild by Jon Krak auer share the same word in their titles, the two are completely different stories with separate narrative purposes. Wild is about the author’s journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance through hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and Into the Wild is the author’s discovery of Chris Mccandless’s natural journey, which ultimately led him to his death. Even though the ending of Wild leads to Strayed’s renewal of life