Into the Wild

Has Krakauer made the case that the prevailing Alaska wisdom is wrong? Why or why not?

Krakauer summarizes the response to his article by saying, "The prevailing Alaska wisdom held that McCandless was simply one more dreamy half-cocked greenborn who went into the country expecting to find answers to all his problems and instead found only mosquitos and a lonely death" (72). Has Krakauer made the case that the prevailing Alaska wisdom is wrong? Why or why not?

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I think Krakauer agrees with these people as far as Chris was naive at best venturing into the Alaskan wilderness. Krakauer, however, respects Chris's idealism and free spirit. Krakauer agrees that Chris romanticized certain illusions of grandeur taken from author's like Thoreau but he does not dismiss Chris as crazy.

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