How Does Krakauer Use Logos In Into The Wild

Jon Krakauer uses logos in the novel, Into The Wild, to appeal to the logic in the passages, leading to a more convincing story. Krakauer uses a relation to identify what McCandless is achieving. As Krakauer begins to explain McCandless’s mindset, he uses logos to allow the character to have better known motives, “...all strongly suggest that he closely identified with the Jules Verne character” (Krakauer 95). Jules Verne is an adventure author that Chris closely read, allowing previous influences to be understood. The author was studied and closely related to Chris in his transcendentalist mindset, By using this author as an example, we can logically assume that Chris was an adventurous person himself. By relating Chris to an adventure novel writer, he is better understood as he can be further understood as a person and character.

Leguminicola” (Krakauer 194). As there is ample reason to believe this is the cause of his death, there is a logical reason we can assume this is what happened. This situation could have many reasons for his death, however, Krakauer cleverly applies logos to his writing in order to grow the understanding and persuasiveness of the text. To continue the idea of logical appeal in Into The Wild, Krakauer uses more facts with Chris’s death, “Starvation was posited as the most probable cause of death” (Krakauer 14). The appeal to logos is shown by the use of the phrase most probable, this implies that the other opportunities are not as likely, allowing us to make a logical explanation for the cause of death. This sort of persuasion can be shown in pathos