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Summary: The adventure of his dream
Review: The book Into the Wild, taught me about life and how people act. Chris Mc.Candless, was a great man that followed his dream. His experience lasted for 2 1/2 year. He went to Alaska searching for adventure and there he was faced with tragedy.I recomended this book if you want to read a extremely touching story.
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Summary: Into the Wild
Review: This book Into the Wild is about a young man named christopher Maccandles who couldn't stand to live in a regular world. He went to Alaska into the wild and gave all his posessions to create a new life. Chris could have had the normal life but he wanted something more exciting. Basically this book is about people who met chris and who were interested in him.
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Summary: A Book for Teenage Connection
Review: I really enjoyed Krakauer's Into the Wild. I thought it was a uniquely composed story jumping between fiction and non-fiction which consistently kept the reader on their toes. The anecdotes, shifts of time, family situations, and interviews all added to the depth and powerful message of this book. I personally felt a connection with Chris, Everett Reuss, Jon Krakauer, and the other people who in this book who took the step away from society and (almost selfishly) followed their hearts. I thoroughly enjoy the outdoors, and feel I too can "get away" through solitude with nature. I thus believe that this book has a double entendre: to show the many people like me that we are not alone with our passions and urges. Knowing we are not alone is a very powerful message! A sense of camaraderie can soften reckless inner urges and keep people with adventurous passions under control. In conclusion, I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed connecting with the many adventurers within the book.
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Summary: a modern odyssey
Review: It was interesting reading about the transition of a normal surburban life to a confused youth in search of true meaning in life. Chris McCandless was a youth like any other, one that children of the modern era can relate to in fact. Despite this commonplace up bringing, he found reason to search for truth in nature, based upon the writings of his favorite authors, one of which was Henry David Thoreau. The book is good in the sense that it helps us gain insight into a young man's transition from what we call "normal" to a recluse searching for more.
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Summary: Alaskan Odyssey
Review: Hi my name is Ariana O'Connor and I will like to send in a book review to you on the book Into the Wild by: Jon Krakauer. Book Review: This book is recommended to readers especially at the teenage and adult level, anyone who is trying to discover their identity, and are make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. This book is a fictional biography of a young man wanting to discover his true self by facing the concentrated, vastness of the Antarctic tundra, the wild. This book is one of its kind of enlightening what seems to be just another pointless death of someone trying to take on the wild, through parallels of historical examples, the author's own experience on this topic, and real quotes from those who befriended this high spirited vagabond. Into the Wild, a book with too many facts fed at once but get the satisfaction of being captivated by capturing the spirit of truth, innocence, and adventure of the truly naive, and pure of heart. Must read!
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Summary: Into the Wild
Review: My name is Nicholas Mangini and I am a Senior at St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California. I had to read this novel for my Contemporary American Authors course. At first I thought this book would be a chore to read. In the end, I grew so attached to the emotional value of the book that I didn't want it to end. The author, Jon Krakauer, guides the reader on an epic voyage that is traveled by a young man named Christopher McCandless. Chris grew up in a affluent suburb outside of Washington D.C. One day Chris decides to leave his comfortable surroundings and wants to test his wings in the real world. The entire novel is dedicated to the mapping of Chris's journey and also the story of all the people that he touched along the way. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed The Catcher in the Rye. Like The Catcher in the Rye, this book has literary nuances that help create a sense of empathy for the main character.
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Summary: A Compeling Story.
Review: As an avid hiker, outdoor lover, and general interest in adventure, I found this story to be somewhat amazing. Krakauer does an excellent job of giving the reader descriptions that let the mind wonder what it would like in this young man's shoes. I only wish he had gone into more detail about the young man himself. That mystery, however, is part of what makes this story so enjoyable.
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Summary: My review
Review: Being forced to read the book for English class, I was reluctant to start. However, it was pretty difficult to put it down once I opened it. Krakauer kept me intrigued as to where Alex Supertramp would end up next and what drove him to walk into the wild. Chris McCandless led a very "interesting" life and Krakauer does a good job to of letting us peer into its mysteries.
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Summary: Into the Wild Review
Review: I have never read anything quite like this before. I was very impressed by the unusual style Jon Krakauer used to write his story of young Chris McCandless. I throughly enjoyed this novel, and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in this story or is even slightly interested in the outdoors. Being an avid backpacker and outdoors type, I was impressed with the amount of knowledge and information Krakauer offered in this story. Even without having any knowledge of the outdoors, it would be extremely easy for one to follow the events and happenings in this story. Definately 5 stars!
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Summary: Chris is my hero
Review: As Jim Morrison would put it, "you're all a bunch of slaves!" Chris Mcandless, however, was no slave-- in the sense that he didn't conform to modern day social institutions that is. Education meant little or nothing to him, he felt that education was the means to becoming a pawn of some corporate conglomerate. He set out to live "un-commited" and free, as Thoreau would say. And he did just that. He went on a "pilgrimage" to find himself; to find some sort of meaning in an insane world. He didn't travel to Jerusalem or Mecca to find an external answer to life's problems, instead he looked towards himself. He challenged himself to be a responsible and noble human being-- one who wasn't a serf toiling in the fields of his vassal, or for that matter doing any slave-like task for the benefit of the whole; because, as we all know, there's no such thing as a "whole", the concept of the whole is a lie, the Soviet Union tried to do that and failed. Chris' nomadic venture through America and parts of Mexico was a journey that only a few people would dare undertake. And why should anyone undertake it anyway, when, afterall, they are all content with their empirical lifestyle full of cheap trifles? America is very similar to ancient Rome and Britain: they exploit others for the benefit of themselves. Eventually, however, it will soon all crumble as we here in America become too big for our own good. We're seeing this right now as America loses its jobs to cheaper foreign labor. Therefore, the only true way to live, or to exist balanced with nature and not exploit by means of force and imperialism, is to live nomadically. Lastly, I too, one day hope to abandon civilization. I encourage everyone to read this book, it changed my life (along with Walden, the philosphies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Socrates, and the music of The Doors). Actually, I've always had these feelings, but the aforementioned books/music were the proverbial "nails in the coffin." As Socrates once said, "the unexamined life is not worth living." And lastly, the words of Jim Morrison: "Look where we worship. We all live in the city. The city forms- often physically, but inevitably psychically- a circle. A Game. A ring of death with sex at its center. Drive towards outskirts of city suburbs. At the edge of discover zones of sophisticated vice and boredom, child prostitution. But in the grimy ring immediately surrounding the daylight business district exists the only real crowd life of our mound, the only street life, night life. Diseased specimens in dollar hotels, low boarding houses, bars, pawn shops, burlesques and brothels, in dying arcades which never die, in streets and streets of all-night cinemas."
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