Krakauer's Self-Expression: Blog 7

After reading Krakauer’s experience on the Devils Thumb i thought it made Chris’ story more credible. Yes I do think that McCandless is an complete idiot and what he did was reckless but when I hear about others doing similar things it makes McCandless seem like less of an idiot. When Krakauer was relating other similar stories to McCandless’ I felt the same way as I did when reading Krakauer’s story. A small sense of compassion towards McCandless because he wasn’t the only person to pull a stunt like he did. I really did enjoy reading Krakauer’s story and how similar it was to McCandless. I thought that it gave Krakauer more credibility to write about McCandless’ experience because he really could relate to why McCandless would go on the Alaskan adventure that he did. The parallels that McCandless and Krakaure shared were truly remarkable and in a way kind of creepy. The fact that they both had unstable relationships with their fathers and used the wilderness and an escape from society. I would never have thought Krakauer would have gone on the epic adventure that he did and succeed at it. When reading a novel you never really think about the author and their life you are only thinking about the main character. And I thought it was very interesting to have a change like this.