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Summary: McCandless was a very selfess towards his life.
Review: I feel that McCandless was a very selfess person. He made people fall in love with him and then left them high and dry with only a couple of letters before his death. Did he not realize the hurt he was causing other people by risking his life? Did he not understand how important and special life is? He seemed to only care about his own feelings about his life and not how others were emotionly attached to his. Since he knew how much he was risking his life, he shouldn't of gotten everyone so emotionally attached to him. Others cared for his feelings so they let him go on with life like he wanted to, so shouldn't he of cared for their fellings back and not ended his life so rudely like he did.
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Summary: The unpredicatable explorer with below par social skills
Review: The most appealing aspect of Into the Wild was the debate if Chris McCandless deserved the respect of everyone who read about his journey, or if he was the most contemptuous person people had ever known. From page to page my oppinion of him changed. When he spends an entire summer away from his home and comes back two days before college I was thinking, "He is truly an explorer." Several pages later, however, the reader learns the way he treats those around him. This happens throughout the book, and you are wondering after the final page is read, "Do I like him or hate him." It's quite similar to picking petals off a flower. This is the essence of why I turned the pages until the book was finished. It is a story that reminds you of a shock disc jockey: You just want to know what he'll do next.
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Summary: Society does not make McCandless's.
Review: The book deals with people who have this idealism that society is devastating and regulating. I do not agree with this thinking. People decide what society is like not society what people are like. McCandless' dream is ultimately going to Alaska and surviving without any help except bare essentionals. Why does he run away from the world? This makes the illusion that he is crazy, but I doubt that. He tends to be caught up in the stories written by some of his favorite authors about going back to nature. Society does not condone abandonment from them to another very well. Therefore this makes McCandless' experience with nature unrelatable. Society is not the root of evil.
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Summary: A Good Read!!!
Review: Many people disagreed with the choice that Christopher McCandless made to go into the wild. He was a young adult fresh out of college when he decided to go on "an adventure of a lifetime". Chris drops all of his posessions and gives his remaining $25,000 to charity to hitch-hike to Alaska where he can escape the norms of society. Many people say he was unprepared for his journey and immature because he did not accept any help or advice from anyone. He did what he wanted to do. That is what makes this such a good book. We all have a time when we dream of getting away from everything, but many of us leave it at that. Chris McCandless fulfilled his dream. Even though he did not make it back, he had the courage to leave his possesions and attempt to live off the land. This is beyond what many of us would even consider.
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Summary: This book is an fascinating, unpredictable story.
Review: McCandless was a smart, but ignorant young man full of himself and a passion for life. He thought he had the world figured out, but he needed time to work out the details on his own. McCandless had several problems that throughout the book he was not able to resolve. First, he could not become too attached to people. Immediately when someone started to get close to them, he simply pushed them away by walking away. That way, he didn't have to worry about being too close to anyone and that makes life easier, but for most people, lonely. Also, McCandless has trouble with authority. He is smart enough to know that a society cannot function without some absolutes(rules), but he still feels that he must deviate from them. This causes him to do many things that were illegal and also difficult to understand. I also feel like he had a total disrespect toward nature. Chris knew the dangers of nature because he spent so much time studying it. He should have known to be better prepared and to show more maturity with nature than to put himself in such foolish positions.All in all, this book was very fascinating and I feel that many people can relate to the book, even if they don't agree with what he did.
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Summary: INTO THE WILD is a story about freedom and persuit of life.
Review: Into The Wild, is a story about Chris McCandless, a young man with the desire to live an untamed life. Krakauer does an amazing job in adding such detail, it is over evident that his research was very extensive. Krakauer's ability to relate and inclusion of his personal story show his credibiliy and reliability to be accurate on such a subject. McCandless did something that everyone should follow. He lived his life as he thought fit, to a different standard than that which was set for him. To break away from society as we know it, and live outside of the premade notion of life, takes a brilliant person, not a crazy one, and McCandless was just that. I would of liked to met him if he had made it out alive.
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Summary: McCandless was not as great as Krakauer believes.
Review: Krakauer tries to persuade his audience into believing that McCandless was an extraordinary individual because of his travels. In my opinion, McCandless does not deserve this praise. To begin with, McCandless cut off all communication with his family, who had always been there for him. The least McCandless could have done, was to let them know once in awhile he was all right. The impression I got, was that McCandless never realized how much his family worried about him. After reading Into the Wild, I thought his family seemed genuinly worried about him. In relation to his family, McCandless appeared a hypocrite. He was able to look up to Wayne Westberg who served a jail sentence as a result of illegal activities, but McCandless would not forgive his father for his earlier marriage and divorce. Along the course of McCandless's travels, he befriended many people, and ended up hurting a few. An example of this would be Ron Franz. Franz wanted to adopt him, but McCandless was afraid of becoming too close so he left again. Throughout McCandless's travels, he never actually lived off the land until he reached the Stampede Trail. I think this was one of the reasons he died. While McCandless traveled through the United States, he was always meeting people who provided him with rides, clothing, shelter, etc. Once he reached the Stampede Trail, McCandless was on his own. I will give him credit for staying alive as long as he did, but in the end McCandless died as a result of two mistakes. The first was his failure to scout the surrounding territory. If he had thoroughly searched the area, he would have known about the bucket crossing further upstream and of the tributaries that fed into the river he was trying to cross. Even if McCandless had not familiarized himself with his surroundings, he should not have given up after viewing the width of the river. If McCandless had not made that first mistake, he would never have made the second, thus he would be alive today. As a result of not finding a way to cross the river, McCandless went back to the bus and ate the poisonous seeds which killed him. These examples are just some of many that keep McCandless from being extraordinary.
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Summary: Captured adventure in the minds that doubted Chris's motives
Review: For a person who doesn't typically enjoy leisure reading, Into the Wild suprisingly facinated me. The book was filled with escapades that entrigued the simplistics of human adventure while still making one ponder the purpose behind it all. Krakauer's representation of Chris McCandless's life of exploration is one that allows the reader to almost invade the life and mind of Alex Supertramp. Krakauer's writing style was very confusing in the begining of the book, but once the story unfolded, his style became more relevant to the amazing story of a man, who gave up "everything" to find a purpose to his life. The McCandless story was an adventure that kept me interested, but at the same time inquisitive. My feelings for this book were often separated between the story and the Chris McCandless character. The story of his adventure was one that did something that most books do not do, it actually kept my attention, making me not want to put the book down. Filled with all the excitements of traveling, the story held its own, benefiting greatly by Krakauer's additions through his own experiences. The point that constantly kept me interested was that this story seems to have been created by the people in Hollywood, but the fact is that this story is true. My feelings toward the McCandless character was that I kept on questioning what his motives were throughout this whole ordeal. Each question that was thrown my way allowed my mind to think to the extreme, and sometimes I even trying to recreate the Chris's scenarios in my mind to answer some of these questions. The frustration involved in trying to answer Chris's purpose kept me angered, yet very interested. Into the Wild got my adrenaline flowing in my body and made me want to go beyond the 204 pages and read more.
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Summary: What I liked and did not like
Review: I enjoyed reading "Into the Wild". There are a few things I would change like, telling only McCandless story or a comparison story on people who walk into the wilderness and never return. Putting the comparison in the middle of the book made it confusing to read. I kept wondering about the rest of McCandless story, how did he die? Did he try to get help? If not why? While I was reading the comparison. I reread "Into the Wild" moving the comparison to the end after McCandless hole story.To me this made it easier to follow. I enjoyed it even more the second time!
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Summary: This book is not put together in a good way.
Review: Jon Krakauer first start this book out really good I thought because he starts out tell that poeple fond Chris McCandless in a bus that was use by hunters. Then Jon goes on and tell you Chris's life story and how he end up in the bus in Alaska. If Jon want have stay will the stroy adout Chris and not throw in other stories that were like Chris. Then thing that really made this not a good book to read is that went he starts talk adout a other story like Chris and when he was done with and pick up with Chris life he talked about what he aready say in chapers before. This was not good because poeple like me who want to get back to Chris story and stay on it for the rest of the book. Then Krakauer when poeple to think of to because he put his one story in andput it up with Chris life. Have the story not in a row and have more then person story in to it made it a bad book. To make this book better is to tells Chris story then the other ones.
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