Chapter 8 and 9:
This chapter has a few purposes. It tells about readers of the issue of Outsider Magazine which featured Chris almost bashing him. Saying he was a child, unprepared, stupid, ignorant and overconfident to name a few. This shows the reaction people have to the story that was in the magazine. I think that Krakauer put these in the book on purpose because he doesn't want his readers feeling the same way. He want's his readers to make more of a connection with Chris than the people that wrote in to the magazine. I, certainly, feel some strong disagreement with the people who wrote in, and I think that that was Jon's intention. It also relates Chris to many other people who have died in the wilderness of Alaska and how they were emotionally unstable and actually wanted to die. He tells these stories because he want's to show that Chris was different. He didn't want to die. He wasn't like every other kid that died in the wilderness. He was Chris McCandless, a much different person than anyone could ever imagine. He was witty, like the other men that died. He was smart like them, adventurous like them, and driven like them, but he had much more than they had. Though it seem's ironic, he was a rational, forward thinker who knew between right and wrong and safe and unsafe. Had he not eaten the wrong plant, he would still be alive today, I think.
Chapter 10:
This chapter illustrates the search for the identity of Chris McCandless. The main thing I noticed was that so many people had thought Chris was their brother or friend. So many people had known someone like Chris or is missing a loved one. Maybe the people calling in actually knew Chris at one point. Krakauer is fitting the pieces together himself and this portion of how they found his identity was vital to the story.
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