I appreciate that Krauker includes in this book the feelings he has about the people who judged McCandless. How none of them ever faced what he did, and the most they’ve ever been out in the wilderness the way he was, was maybe a week. Nobody else has the confidence that McCandless had. People talk about how disgusting society and the world is, but never do anything about it. They stay in the bubble that was made for them, so they have no place to judge people who didn’t want to stay in a box the way they did. 

If this is the goal Krauker had, I think he achieved it very nicely. He made sure to hear from everyone close to McCandless. To visit the places where he stayed, or just passed through. He really put his all into inserting himself into McCandless’s life, and seeing everything and everyone he saw. If he had just done research by looking things up in books and using little to no evidence, this book wouldn’t be as successful as it is today. And people wouldn’t know McCandless’s story the way they do now.