Into The Wild Passage Analysis

2) American Youths’ Rite of Passage The search for something that matters in the mysterious adult world. That is the American youths’ rite of passage. In our story one sees that our very own author has gone through this rite himself. His choice of where to find meaning was in the mountains. In Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild he describes how he felt when he was undertaking this rite for himself, “If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing… By fixing my sights on one summit after another, I managed to keep my bearings through some thick postadolescent fog. Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the …show more content…
Another author shouldn’t be too difficult to find a story about himself. Jon Krakauer is one such author. He decided to write almost a whole story about a young man who gets lost in the woods. Almost is the emphasis. About mid way he decides to put in an autobiography of how he had similar traits to the boy. It is at this point when he tells us his bias is really perceiving having many similarities. Jon confesses "My suspicion that McCandless death was unplanned, that it was a terrible accident, comes from reading those few documents he left behind and from listening to the men and women who spent time with him over the final year of his life. But my sense of Chris McCandless's intentions comes, too, from a more personal perspective. As a youth, I am told, I was willful, self-absorbed, intermittently reckless, moody. I disappointed my father in the usual ways. Like McCandless's, figures of male authority aroused in me a confusing medley of corked fury and hunger to please. If something captured my undisciplined imagination. I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing." Pg 134 The bias was in mind when the book was penned. Since there is a bias, the story is told through Krakauer’s interpretation of the events. The bias seen throughout is about Jon’s life. Therefore the story is really about Jon since most points in the story are changed to a fit a narrative from Jon’s

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