Friday, March 5, 2010
Krakauer
Krakauers self expression can make you believe that he is writing off of his experience, but Krakauer did have a journal as well as books he highlighted. In the epigraphs Krakauer puts highlighted passaged that gives insight into what he thought. This gives creditability to Krakauer's words about Chris but only the words related to the epigraphs. I think that Krakauer's self-expression gives him more credibility because he has a similar story to Chris. Even though Krakauer may have been trying to related Chris to himself in his writing, the intelligence level and the way that these two individuals think are very similar. they read similar books which gave them similar views on the world. Krakauer's story is very similar to Chris's story which make readers question Krakauer's credibility, but I feel that Krakauer's self expression give more insight into Chirs's story because he had experienced something similar as well as the fact that they read similar books.
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I agree that they have similar stories and it allows the reader to have a better understanding of why people go out into the wild. It doesn't matter what "side" you are on, everyone understands that these people had a dream and they wanted to fulfill it. Even though they had similar stories, I do not believe they are the same at all because everyone is different. Yes, I do believe Krakauer is credible in telling his own life story, but there are still somethings that I struggle to understand with McCandless.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Krakauer put himself in the novel to parallel Chris at all. I think Krakauer simply noticed similarities he found in himself in Chris. I also think Krakauer wants the reader to not know all the facts and information about McCandless, he wants readers to depict their own idea of Chris.
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