"In light of Krakauer's sel-expression, do you find his recount of Chris' story more or less credible? Explain your answer?
I don't really understand what the question is asking, but I do believe Krakauer made Chris' story more credible because we understand that he knows what he's talking about. Also we know that their adventures are similar therefor we know that when he assures us that Chris didn't go into the wild wanting to die we believe him. He says he was in a very similar situation, not because he wanted to die, but because he's plans didn't come out as he wanted them to.
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Haha I am so glad that you didn’t understand the question because I didn’t either. But I just ran with it and hopefully I answered it right. I also agree that Krakauer’s story really added to Into the Wild and made him mare credible as a writer because he can relate to McCandless. I thought it was really cool of similar their stories were. I never would have thought that Krakauer would have had similar thoughts and desires that McCandless did. It gave Krakauer more credibility as a writer of this story because he really has “walked in McCandless’ shoes” and isn’t blindly writing on a topic that he can’t relate to.
ReplyDeleteI agree in the fact that it made McCandless' story easier to understand. And I also was a little confused with the prompt. It was neat to see how Krakauer did relate to McCandless is so many ways, and how his story had many similarities. This helps show that Krakauer isn't just writing a story without any knowledge on the topic.
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