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Need an research paper on into the wild by j. krakauer. Needs to be 4 pages. Please no plagiarism. In April 1992 the honors graduate of Emory University from a well-to-do family was found starved to death in the school bus in Alaska taiga. His decomposed body was found by hunters. In his death notes, he asked desperately to save him. This life story fascinated a journalist Jon Krakauer so much that after writing an article about Chris, he extended it into a book reconstructing the last two years of McCandless’s life using his journals, postcards, and interviews with people who knew him. The story is very close to the life of the author himself. Krakauer also hitchhiked to Alaska at the same age as Chris was. He was the same thrilled with the prospect of getting into the wilderness. Jon set to climb the Devils Thumb which was the same dangerous as Chris’ journey. However, he was not aware of the dangers the same way McCandless was not. Chris starts his traveling in search of a new life, ‘one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.’ (p. 23) The same way Krakauer once tried to make a change in his life: “… I thought climbing Devil’s Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. (p.155) Krakauer realizes that his luck could turn wrong for him and he could end up the same way as McCandless did. Krakauer writes: “The fact that I survived my Alaskan adventure and McCandless did not survive he was largely a matter of chance. had I died on the Stikine Ice Cap in 1977, people would have been quick to say of me, as they now say of him, that I had a death wish.” (p.155) In these lines, the reader feels how Krakauer parallels his life experience to that of McCandless. What did not happen to him, happened to the same idealistic young man who ignored the pleas of his family and friends and was the same obsessed with ‘peering over the brink.