Chp. 8Much criticism was received by Krakauer concerning McCandless. Whenever something negative was said was McCandless, Krakauer would defend him. He felt like Chris was being misjudged. I feel like Krakauer didn’t like people calling McCandless dumb and crazy since Krakauer did things similar to what McCandless did.
Chp. 15He shared his experience and survival at Devil’s Thumb . He explained that he suffered from the same arrogance that McCandless had that he thinks caused McCandless’ death. He also compared his personal relationship with his father to that of Chris, which had caused a similar intensity, and agitation of the soul between the two.
Krakauer used authorial presence to shed a light as to why McCandless did what he did. Their similaities allow Krakauer to state his story and possibly translate that to McCandless’ sitatuation and explain Chris’ motivation.
Chp. 15He shared his experience and survival at Devil’s Thumb . He explained that he suffered from the same arrogance that McCandless had that he thinks caused McCandless’ death. He also compared his personal relationship with his father to that of Chris, which had caused a similar intensity, and agitation of the soul between the two.
Krakauer used authorial presence to shed a light as to why McCandless did what he did. Their similaities allow Krakauer to state his story and possibly translate that to McCandless’ sitatuation and explain Chris’ motivation.