Analysis Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

When thinking about the wild we often look to places like the woods and uncharted territory. These places are in fact wild, but we often overlook the wild we experience every day. Everyone has their own opinion about what the wild is to them. William Cronon says that the wild is not real, that is a human creation that is a mirror of what we believe the wild is, and that we can only define wild as a place that has been untouched by man. In the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, we are told the story of a young man, Alex McCandless, who travels across the United States trying to find such a wild place, and once he found such a place he walked in and never walked out. But along the way we see how his travels can be considered wild. We learn how the people around us and the places we go can be

The wild can be anything from a new experience to a simple change in your daily routine. The wild can be experienced in your everyday life. The wild can be seen in many different ways, but one general view is used by Krakauer. That view of the wild is described as a way for someone to separate themselves from the rest of society to be able to reconnect with who they want to be. Many people seek to find a wild place where they are able to reset their mind in a way. They go to a much simpler place without all the so-called “distractions” of today’s hustle and bustle society. People also think the wild is only a place that disconnects us from the world. That this disconnection is an unnecessary commodity. Cronon says, “If the core problem of wilderness is that it distances us too much from the very things it teaches us to value, then the question we must ask is what it can tell us about home, the place where we actually live” (Pg. 13). He believes that going