Into the Wild

JonInto the Wild is a book that highlights the journey taken by a newly college graduated young man named Christopher McCandless. The successful man decides to desert his life and turn to the wilderness. He gives up all of his belongings and wealth, and changes his name. McCandless embarks on a trip to survive off the harsh wilderness of Alaska. Throughout the book Krakauer the author tries to make sense of this trip. He goes talks different problems McCandless went through, and by enterview explains some of the people he met on the journey and some of the letters he wrote to people. Krakauer uses stories from his life to compare to McCandlesses adventure. The conclusion can be come to that both McCandless and Krakauer had the erge to compete and defeat nature. McCandless didn't even make it out of that battle alive, and Krakauer had a very near death experience. This book represents the power that nature has over men and shows how it is a great escape from the cluttered organized world. The book also shows the insanity of humans. No sure conclusion can be come to that clearly states what drove McCandless to do what he did. A person would have to posses some traces of insanity to go about tackling the nature like he did.