Blind

I think Krakauer is more forgiving of McCandless in Into The Wild which he shows by trying to help readers understand him and why he did it. He shows McCandless that his journey came from a real desire for meaning, not just carelessness and trying to make a point. Krakauer also compares his story to things from his own youth, and this makes Chris seem more relatable and less deserving of blame for the whole situation. Personally I think he should have been more hard on him because of what had happened. I think that he was acting on impulse rather than actually thinking it through. I think he was very over confident because he only brought a small amount of resources and not nearly enough supplies to actually survive. I think Krakauer was playing it down a lot in the way he put him out there to be and almost made it seem like a beautiful thing. One thing that stuck out was how he described the bus wreck almost poetically by saying it was “Left like a relic,” which seemed really messed up saying it was a scene where someone had died. Also Krakauer lets Chris’s perspective dominate the story without giving equal weight to the harm caused by his silence and not patching things with his family.