Which is not to say that Jon Krakauer believes his younger self to have been identical to Christopher McCandless in every respect. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic." "It is easy, when you are young," he writes, "to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. Clearly Krakauer believes that McCandless was driven to do what he did in large measure by his relationship with father Walt.Īnd this is only part of what Krakauer believes he shared with McCandless. This chapter further develops the motif of fathers and sons, suggesting explicitly that sons often rebel against their fathers at the same time that they are powerless to resist paternal traits they have inherited. He decides to climb the Devils Thumb via another route, up the side he had planned on descending. But the mountain has not defeated Krakauer yet. He tunnels out four times the fifth time, he retreats. Prevented by a large storm from reaching the summit, Krakauer huddles inside a bivouac sack while avalanches bury the ledge he balances on.
He donates his college savings to charity, burns the cash he has on hand, and starts his two year trek around the country, eventually hoping to live off. It tells the tale of Christopher McCandless, a young man from a well-off family who decides to live of the grid for a while. The author contemplates that the off-kilter ambition he inherited from his father is what prevented him "from admitting defeat on the Stikine Ice Cap after my initial attempt to climb the Thumb had failed, even after I nearly burned the tent down." Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer was my audio book for work last week. In medicating himself, he became addicted to a variety of painkillers and eventually attempted suicide. Victim of a childhood bout with polio, Lewis begins experiencing symptoms of the disease again in middle age. Father and son clashed as Jon entered his teens and then young adulthood.
A physician, Lewis Krakauer wanted his son to become a doctor, as well, and groomed him from the time he was a toddler for that profession. Next, the author reminisces about his autocratic but generous and loving father.
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