Compares and contrasts How Krakauer's life (the novelist) parallels Chris McCandlesses's in the Novel Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. Includes 3 in text citations and 3 works cited.

In April of 1992 a young man named Chris McCandless, from a prosperous and loving family, hitchhiked across the country to Alaska. He gave $25,000 of his savings to charity, left his car and nearly all of his possessions. He burned all the cash he had in his wallet, and created a new life. Four months later, his body was found in an abandoned bus. Jon Krakauer constructed a journalistic account of McCandless's story. Bordering on obsession, …

…he felt obligated to tell Chris's story. I think it is quite possible Jon feels guilty about having survived when Chris died. Either way, I think both men were success full even though they both had very different goals and outcomes. Works Cited Outdoorclub. 01 Mar. 2005 <http://www.outdoorclub.org/wilderness_Quotes.html>. Wayne, Bennett. Men of the Wild Frontier. Champaign: Garrard Publishing Company, 1968. Weinberg, Albert. manifest Destiny. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1935.