Friday, March 5, 2010
Bringing attention to the reader
I think it was a good idea to incorporate Krakauer's personal story because it gives another example of what Chris' story is trying to represent. His story allows me to understand why McCandless did what he did more clearly. My opinion that Chris was a brave young man that believed in what he thought was right became stronger after Krakauer shared what his reasons were. Krakauer and McCandless had a lot in common in the way they thought about life and what they felt they needed to do to be happy. The only difference is that Krakauer survived and Chris met an unfortunate death.
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Some of the criticism that I have seen of Chris is that he did nothing deserving of the attention he received in the wake of his death. Do you think that possibly part of Krakauer's intention with his chapter was to humanize everything as much as he could and show that he recognizes that Chris was no different than many young people who do the same thing? Maybe it was an unintentional motive and, though I don't believe it necessarily helped his argument as much as the intentional motives of putting this chapter in did, but it is something that I have thought of as I have been reading the book. Pointing the story out, while still trying to keep it on common ground
ReplyDeleteI thought that with these chapters we were more able to understand where Chris was coming from, like you said. I thought a little bit with these chapters that Krakauer was showing that Chris and the other people that died were kind of crazy though, do you agree at all? I think that by showing they all went kind nuts and either died or killed themselves showed that maybe they all needed help.
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