The result is that Krakauer had to infer or invent most of the details in order to have a readable book. McCandless' entries are not dated, just numbered, and a large portion of them are sighting notes, generally in form of short sentence fragments like "5 Squirrel, Caribou*", or "Beautiful Blueberries". Most of these stem from the extremely limited detail in McCandless' journal. In this article, "The fiction that is Jon Krakauer's 'Into The Wild'", Medred covers a large number of items in the book that are questionable. However, the non-fictional nature of the book has been disputed by some individuals involved in McCandless' story, and commentators such as Alaskan reporter Craig Medred, who wrote an investigative article for the Alaska Dispatch News. Into the Wild has been lauded by many reviewers, and in 2019 was listed by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction works of the past quarter-century. The book is widely used as high school and college reading curriculum. Into the Wild is an international bestseller which has been printed in 30 languages and 173 editions and formats. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. It’s fine, but there are better books out there (ex.Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer.
#INTO THE WILD BOOK OR MOVIE MOVIE#
Overall, I highly recommend the movie (probably 3.75/5 stars), but I don’t really recommend the book. Hard Sun is arguably one of the best songs ever written and I WILL fight you on that. The movie is also beautifully shot, and the soundtrack is fantastic (I would die for Eddie Vedder, just so you know). It’s a really disturbing scene, but I think it really shows that Chris was a child who had no idea what he was doing. They didn’t vilify him, but his selfishness and inexperience were definitely portrayed fairly. I thought Krakauer really glossed over that and painted McCandless as a martyr or hero, whereas the movie did not. It’s honestly somewhat insulting to Mother Nature. Honestly though, Chris McCandless was a spoiled rich white kid who was trying to survive in the wild with minimal experience. The movie also managed to capture Chris’ stupidity really well, which I think is lost in the book. I really liked that format, and I thought it worked really well for this movie. It goes back and forth between Chris being in Alaska, and pre-Alaska when he was wandering America. I would’ve enjoyed it more, I think, if it was more focused on the story of Chris and the people around him. There’s an entire chapter where Krakauer talks about how he feels he understands McCandless, because once he (Krakauer) burned down his tent while camping because he was high. Krakauer attempted to relate the book to himself too many times.
My main issue with the book is honestly the author. For me, they were really the highlight of the book. It was definitely super interesting to see all the people McCandless managed to connect and reconnect with on his journey. I enjoyed the conversation about it, and I enjoyed writing essays criticizing McCandless, but the book just didn’t click with me.
This was required reading for me in grade 12 as our novel study even though it’s nonfiction. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body.
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In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, burned all of his cash, and invented a new life for himself. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity. In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt.
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