Krakauer's Attitude Towards Mccandless

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Krakauer's attitude towards McCandless

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At the beginning of chapter 5 Krakauer says about the protagonist that after McCandless camera broke the couldn't take anymore pictures with i guess also led him to maybe lose interest in also taking journals in the meantime till he got back to the Alaska wilderness. Winter was approaching and McCandless find a place that he settle down because he will itchy feet when and that would affect his walking, he then considered that maybe during his stay in that town or city he might actually consider abaddon his stamp on life. There krakauer said that McCandless got a job with when the narrator said that “he applied to work at McDonald with his legit social security number and presented himself as chris McCandless not as Alex” and when i read that i was like why would he do that, like the whole purpose of changing your name and getting a fake social security was in order to stay hidden and away. Read further and the narrator didn't say any clue that might have been helpful to finding why Chris did what he did …show more content…
Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn’t incompetent—he wouldn’t have lasted 113 days if he were. And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an outcast. McCandless was something else—although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim, perhaps.” Pg 85

Krakauer is about done with the article on McCandless, from what he knows of McCandless. After he makes the article about McCandless, he got a lot of letters saying that McCandless had a wish to die going into the Alaskan wild without experience. In that case, Krakauer had an affair fundamentally the same as and can identify with McCandless and his yearn for the enterprise. He doesn't think McCandless was a nutcase, however, as a
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