Into The Wild Essay Example

movie be made and showed in theaters. As a reader, I do not agree with Krause. Nor do I agree with his goal of letting the readers make up their own minds about Christopher Johnson Mishandles.

His initial goal may have been to let the reader come up with their own conclusions and Houghton of Chris, but Krause promotes his own interpretation and image of Chris throughout the book, Into the Wild. Pushing the readers, with his words, to influence his own ideals of Chris. Krause omits some of the possible disorders and some peculiar characteristics of Chris to fit his own ideals of Chris. Especially since Krause relates himself to Chris, seeing that, some characteristics of Chris aren't like his own, he omits them completely.

He does this to make himself and Chris much more compatible to each other, and make Chris seem more realistic, sane, and Just like any other young man his age. Krause even pushes Chrism's character to be more likable towards the reader, to plant an idea that Chris is, was, and forever will be an honorable young man, Just like many young men his age. Krause stops presenting the reader with a nonfiction account of Chrism's life when he starts to impose his own ideals of Chris and omits certain characteristics of Chris.

Krause insinuates that Chris has been a victim of the brutality of life, "forcing" him into "the wild. " Even though the wild was much more cruel than his prior suffering. He does this to cause some pity or sympathy towards Chris and force the reader to expose some emotion to eke Chris and be more

compassionate towards him and his "righteous" actions. Causing some of Squeaker's presence and thoughts to be imposed onto the minds of ten readers. . " I Interrupt Uncleanness's story Walt Treatments or... My own youth. (Authors Note, Into the Wild) Krause, himself, states that he will compare his own youth to Uncleanness's own life and youth. This proves my point, stating that Jon Krause imposes and forces his own, very own ideas of Chris onto the reader. Krause ignores these other possible characteristics of Chris because he doesn't ant to "ruin" his views of Chris and he also doesn't want to say that he, himself, has these problems as well. Since, Krause sees himself as Chris. Meanwhile other criticizes, like Metered, state that Chris may have been schizophrenic.

Many things point towards this, the development of "Alexander Superstars," wanting to be isolated, and the entries to his Journals, where he expresses himself in third person. "... Mishandles took on a different persona, in taking the name Alexander Superstars, and references notes that were left behind in Mishandles' Journals as evidence that he was suffering from schizophrenia. (Metered) Who knows if Chris was or was not mentally ill, but if that would have been a possibility, then Krause has a responsibility as a writer to include that in his writing.

Chris came from a "powerful" family, a rich family, and a broken family. A family that contains dark secrets capable of breaking down this weak family. And when these secrets rose to the surface they broke down the family and ravaged with many hidden feelings. Chris, most of all, was the most affected by this secret.

The secret of being bastard children. "In 1972 both families still lived in California. " (Stacy Mishandles) Chrism's father, Walter Mishandles, was a very cruel man.

Not letting his first and "legal" family go, with Marcia, and not letting go of his other "illegal" family either, with Billie. Walter never wanted to let go of his family with Marcia, even though she was trying desperately to leave Walter. And Walter wanted to be with his second family as well, even though Billie was scared, more terrified, of letting the neighbors know that Christopher and Caring were "bastard" children. Chris and Caring experienced domestic violence, first hand, because of Walter. Walter and Bible Mishandles never really knew how much damage they where causing their children. L want to go up to them and say Stop, don't do it?she's the wrong woman, he's the wrong man, you are going to do things you cannot imagine you would ever do, you are going to do bad things to children, you are going to suffer in ways you have not heard of, you are going to want to die. " (Sharon Olds) Chris and Caring were forced to learn, at a young age, that they would have to rely on each other and only each other, even though they were known as the bastard children of Walter and his infidelity with Billie. Chris had always known that his parent's were protected, protected with their money.

He thought that their philosophy was incorrect. That they couldn't always hide behind their money. That they couldn't always buy people off with their money. Because of this ideology of Chris, he decided to

start an adventure. That he, Christopher Johnson Mishandles, would prove them wrong. Jon Krause, a man of words and of ways to impose his thoughts onto the minds of his readers, born in 1954, grew up in Corvallis, Oregon. Before Krause became a writer, he was a climber. His father had lured him into the mountain climbing world hen Krause was barely eight years old.

After graduating form Hampshire College in 1976, he worked as a carpenter and salmon fisherman to survive. Krause has been capable do relating himself to Christopher Mishandles because of his near eaten experiences. Once when nee was calming ten Devils I mud, creating a path AT "his own" to get to the summit, and almost dying in the mere attempt of doing so. He felt, as a young man, the allure the "wilderness" had. The way the mountain called him and made him want to climb it, alone. Later in 1996, Krause went climbing once again, this time in Mount Everest. A deadly mountain that should be respected.

In this expedition of 5 members that reached the summit, four of whom died, Krause escaped the grasp of death once more. His true writing career started after this experience, making him know and respect the "true" force of nature. , having written a best seller, Into Thin Air. The offer of writing about a young man who died in Alaska, reached him through the Outsider Magazine. He found something about the young man, later identified as Christopher Johnson Mishandles, very similar to himself. A piece, a shard, of himself in the young man who died in the wilderness.

After writing about

Chris in the Outside Magazine, he found out that he wanted to know more about Chris, that he was obsessed with his story and wanted to know the cause of him going into Alaska. Wanting to know more about Chris and what led him "Into the Wild," his future best selling book. Even though Krause may have tried to hide certain things from occurring, certain sources have shown that Krause has been lying. Some sources show that Christopher Mishandles had money, identification, and a map. Krause himself doesn't make a straight answer when asked "Why didn't Chris have a map with him?

His answer changes, in the interview he had with Rose he states that Chris didn't have a map because "Chris felt it would make the challenge of going into Alaska less of a challenge. " Later on in the interview he states that when Chris was ready to return to civilization and tried crossing the Taking River his map didn't show the pulley that hunters used to get across nor did it show that the Taking River branched out a couple of miles down from where he was. Also in the first publishing of his book, Krause later changes a couple of lines. "... E left the map in Gasoline's rack, along with his watch, his comb, and all his money, which amounted to 85 cents. ' However, when the book was published, these lines were changed to the following: 'Alex insisted on giving Galling his watch, his comb, and what he said was all his money: eighty-five cents in loose change' (p. 7). " (Lament) The Alaska Coroner's list of belongings returned

to Mishandles' family following his autopsy shows that Chris did have a map with him. So which is it, who knows only Krause knows, and by the looks of it, he doesn't have an intention of revealing this information to the public.

Furthermore, a man named Will Forgers found Chrism's backpack after the Alaskan authorities took Chrism's remains for the autopsy. In a secret bag hidden in the backpack, Forgers found that Chris had identification. "Right there in the bus with him was a wallet that contained his social security card, birth certificate, driver's license, health card, voter identification, and three library cards. Most significantly, this new evidence seems to indicate that Chris had no "death wish," as some of his harshest detractors have claimed, and that in fact he intended to return to society at mom point. (Lament) This puts Krause into more questioning and makes many readers ponder why he didn't include this in his book, making it seem that he wanted his version of Chrism's fatal story to be the truth, even though many things point against it. Furthermore, Alex didn't burn all his money much less did he give it all away. "Alex Insisted on Glenn Galen... Want nee salad was all Nils money: Elgin cents in loose change. " (Page 7) Alex did not give away al his money because Forgers found 300 dollars in the secret bag hidden in his backpack. Also, Chris didn't burn all is money for he had saved 300 dollars in his secret bag. One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke. " (page 29) Maybe, Krause did this

to help his side of the story flow more smoothly, create a false sense that Chris really didn't have money nor identification because of his "free spirit. " But one things is certain. Someone is lying. Another "fishy' thing about Krause and his story about Chris Mishandles is that he claims a poisonous seed killed Chris. There has been evidence proving Krause to be wrong in the concluding of the "poisonous" potato seeds.

There could be a usability that Krause made this story about the poisonous seeds so that the reader could feel some pity towards the "poor" young man who was poisoned by these potato seeds that have never poisoned anyone else. There was never any record of anyone being poisoned by the potato seed headscarf Mackenzie. Furthermore, there has been no relation towards toxic compounds in the plant Headscarf alpines that was tested for toxic compounding for Krause by Dry. Thomas Clauses. Dry. Thomas states after "exhausting testing" that no part, whatsoever, of Headscarf alpines is toxic, not the seed itself nor the roots. As far jack as 1997, Dry Thomas Clauses... Who examined the wild potato plant... For Jon Krause-concluded after exhaustive testing that no part of H. alpines is toxic. " (Lament) Krause must have made this story to make the reader feel sympathy over a young man who went into Alaska, ate these wild potato seeds that were poisonous, and died. Krause states the following in Into the Wild, According to one theory, Mishandles never got around to planting the garden (l saw no evidence off garden in the vicinity of the bus) and by late July had grown hungry

enough to eat the seeds, which poisoned him.

Potato seeds are in fact lady toxic after they've begun to sprout. They contain gasoline, a poison that occurs in plants of the nightshade family, which causes vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and lethargy in the short term, and adversely affects heart rate and blood pressure when ingested over an extended period. (page 190). Krause says "according to one theory," and then immediately states "l saw no evidence... " "According to one theory," could this be his own theory? Seems like it, since Dry.

Thomas had dismissed his earlier assumption of the poisonous wild potato plants and Chrism's IBM pointed towards starvation as the "killer. "Chris Uncleanness's Body Mass Index (IBM) was on a downward trajectory from the day he walked "into the wild," and it continued steadily downward until his death by starvation 113 days later. " (Lament) This information came in after the autopsy of Chris was done, and the question of what happened to Chris Mishandles was being solved. Because Krause wanted his readers to feel sympathy for Chris, he decided to imply that poisonous seeds killed the young man.

Who was ill prepared for his own "Alaskan adventure," didn't have the right supplies, knowledge, and starved to death. Krause didn't want to make Chris sound like an idiot who walked into the wilderness but a young man who died in the wilderness by a mysterious wild potato seed, that was poisonous and Chris was the first victim it claimed. [pick] statistics AT C eaten Dye starvation Christopher Mishandles, as I sated before ,was known as the bastard child of Walter Mishandles and his infidelity with

Billie. Even though both families lived in the same state they where unaware of each other.

Well, Chris and Caring didn't know about being bastard children, but Walter and Billie both knew very well about it and decided to keep this away from both Chris and Caring. Furthermore, Chris was close to Walter, but started separating himself from his father when he realized what kind of man he was. The man that bought everything with money. Parent's have a responsibility to teach their children how to gain respect and not Jus buy it off of people with their money. Later on when Chris found out that he had seven other brothers and sisters and was devastated.

He grew to love all his brothers and sisters, but loved one the most, Caring. "There were eight children in the extended family: a younger sister, Caring, with whom Chris was extremely close, and six half-brothers and sisters from Wall's first marriage. (page 20) The one that he had grown up with in the same house and knew to be his only relative for a long time. After he found out that he was a bastard child his relation with his father was torn apart and he grew even more separated from his father than before.

After a while of knowing and getting to love his half sisters and brothers, he sustained good relationships with them even though he would always have the status of a bastard child. Moreover, Chrism's relatives knew about his plans of leaving, showing the great connections they had with each other, even though he and Caring were the result of an infidelity. He related

to his siblings because they understood how cruel Walter could be and was. "Both families suffered through constant domestic violence, threats, and deception. I believe that to not acknowledge at last these three basic facts is an injustice to Chris and all he endured. (Caring Mishandles) Walt always acted viciously towards them and their mothers, causing in domestic violence and the disruption of peace throughout the household. Krause never included this because he was badly informed by Chrism's parent's, due to the fact that he used them as his main source of information. Chris was the oldest child Billie had with Walter, even though he was still legally married to Marcia. "l am proud to be a part of an amazing group of siblings; Sam, Stacy, Shawn, Shells, Shannon, Chris, Quinn, and Caring. " (Stacy Mishandles) Billie knew that Walter was a bit violent and still married to Marcia.

Even with this known information, Billie decided to create a violent environment for her two children with Walter. For Walter was a violent man whom always fought with Billie about the new corporation they were making. They always argued, shouted, and threatened each other in front of Chris and Caring. Sometimes even forcing them to say with whom they would live with if they separated. Furthermore, Walter was not only violent with his family with Billie, but he was very violent with his first family with Marcia. Marcia was desperate to divorce Walter, and had tried several times with no success.

Until 1972 when Marcia was capable of getting divorce from the horrible man, Walter Mishandles. Walter, was always a strict man, an infidel, a violent

man who caused domestic violence, and a man who got what he wanted. He was violent if he didn't get what he wanted. For example he didn't want to divorce from Marcia he wanted to ATA with her even though he already had another family. And he wouldn't get away Tort ten second Tamely Decease nee wan EAI t teen as well. He Ana Trace Marcela to stay with him after several tries of unsuccessful divorce.

Letting go of something or someone is the best thing you could do, instead of holding them hostage forever. There are many reasons why Chris was incapable of returning for the Taking River. One major reason was that he became aware of the strength of the water. Because he almost died in the storm, he became aware of the natures power. Just like I have, not cannoning, but swimming. It was a bad idea to go swimming in an upcoming storm especially since I didn't know how to swim and there were no lifeguards around. Furthermore, I remember almost drowning because of the strength of the water.

I too, like Chris, became aware of the strength of nature, especially when it comes to water. L, unlike Chris, was capable of going back into the water. Even though I almost drowned that day I was capable of swimming again. I used this as an advantage to know the true power of water and learn form it, unlike Chris. He became aware of the strength of water but didn't use it as a learning experience. I learned that swimming in a storm isn't smart but if you like adrenaline it sure

will give you a rush and that you have to respect the waters you are swimming in.

Also, you have to learn to get over your phobia and sometimes that will save you, in which case could have saved Mishandles, in crossing the Taking River and not just giving up all hope in getting back to civilization.