Friday, February 26, 2010
Group E Prompt
I believe that the examples Krakauer chose to relate to McCandless' story helped tell his story. It enhances the different aspects of the story, and helps show how each part of McCandless' story is important and how similar Everett Ruess and Chris McCandless are. On page 91, Krakauer says in the excerpts from some of Everett's letters, "I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wandereer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all the lone trail comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is." This is how Ruess expressed himself, and McCandless seemed to have a similar outlook on life. They are both similar in many ways.
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I also would agree with you that Krakaurer’s use of relating McCandless’ story to others helped the book. I really liked that Krakaure related McCandless to Ruess. I thought that it was very interesting to read Ruess’ writings and see how similar they were to McCandless’ thoughts and motives. I do think that McCandless is a complete idiot but when reading the other stories similar to that of McCandless himself I felt as though he was less of an idiot because other people did reckless things that he did too and had similar feelings.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with your answer. I think that Krakeur really choose his examples carefully because all of these people that he talks about have very similarities with McCandless. I also think they help make McCandless seem even more human like, and that it's in our nature to be free and live in the wild.
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