Into The Wild
(Jon Krakauer)
?Into the Wild? does not seem initially seem to have a terribly good premise. It is the true story of a young man named Chris McAndless who after college leaves his absolutely predictable suburban upbringing in search of some sort of ?natural experience? unreachable from his pedestrian home. His journey leads him to wilder and wilder reaches until he eventually perishes in the wilds of Alaska of starvation.What makes the book work is the author helping us see the universal struggle for righteousness, harmony and inner peace played out dramatically in Mcandless? life. We learn for example, that one of the reasons he turned from his parents was when, after a typical nuclear upbringing, they revealed that she had in fact been his secretary and he had left his wife to marry her. This smacked of hypocrisy Mcandless.The book is strengthened by the Author?s own vulnerability to McAndless? odyssey. He reveals that he himself has gone ?Into the Wild? on mountaineering trips that look more like ?suicide by mountain? than fun adventuring. The effect is that we come to understand both the author and McAndless as venerable to their own relentless drives.The book should commended for its astounding research. McAndless left sporadic notes and sent no messages home yet, somehow, the author has pieced together his life from time spent at the ?Damn Hot? springs to a canoe trip where McAndless appears to have navigated the Colorado river all the way to the Baja peninsula.By the time McAndless is dying in the wilderness and has risen to take one last photo of himself smiling and giving a thumbs up, we are left to ask; are we better off in the shelter, or is it worth the risk from, time to time, to go ?Into the Wild??
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