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Jon Krakaeur as a Credible
Narrator?By Jasmine Patel
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Experience
•“The only source o kno!led"e is experience#$% &lbert Einstein
•Positi'e or ne"ati'e
•Types o experience
()irst hand
(*econd hand
(Third hand
•Jon Krakauer?
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Back"round similarities bet!een
+cCandless and Krakauer
•“But , belie'e !e !ere similarly aected by the ske!edrelationships !e had !ith our athers$-.//0#
()orce dri'in" them into the !ild
•Krakauer1s ather “!as ambitious to the extreme2 and
like 3alt +cCandless2 his aspirations extended to hispro"eny$-.450#
(Pressure enorced by their ather1s
•,ntroduced to their escape rom the !orld
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*imilar philosophies bet!een Krakauer
and +cCandless
•“But at the a"e o t!enty%three2 personal mortality%theidea o my o!n death%!as still lar"ely outside my
conceptual "rasp$ -./.0#
•“&nd , suspect !e had a similar intensity2 a similar
heedlessness2 a similar a"itation o the soul$ -.//0# (Repetition- credibility
•“,n my case%and2 , belie'e2 in the case o Chris
+cCandless% that !as a 'ery dierent thin" rom
!antin" to die$ -./60#•“, !as stirred by the dark mystery o mortality# , couldn1t
resist stealin" up to the ed"e o doom and peerin" o'er
the brink$ -.//%./60#
(Metaphor
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Krakauer1s positi'e bias to!ards
+cCandless
•“&s a youn" man2 , !as unlike +cCandless in manyimportant re"ards7 most notably2 , possessed neither his
intellect nor his loty ideals$-.//0#
•“, !on1t claim to be an impartial bio"rapher#
+cCandless1s stran"e tale struck a personal note thatmade a dispassionate renderin" o the tra"edy
possible$ -author1s note0#
•“, interrupt +cCandless1s story !ith ra"ments o a
narrati'e dra!n rom my o!n youth# , do so in the hopethat my experiences !ill thro! some obli8ue li"ht on the
eni"ma o Chris +cCandless$ -author1s note0#
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Krakauer1s Personal Narrati'e
•3hy include it? (9o"os
•, he could do it2 so could +cCandless#
•Both !ere sane !hen "oin" on their ad'enture# Not suicidal
(Pathos
•,ncluded o!n eelin"s to help relate to +cCandless1s eelin"s!hile on his ad'enture
•:se certain !ords to sho! the mood/tone
(“, could all to easily picture the smu" expressions ocondolence ,1d recei'e rom those !ho1d been certain o myailure rom the "et%"o$-.460#
(“9ike +cCandless2 i"ures o male authority aroused me ina conusin" medley o corked ury and hun"er to please$-.;40#
(Ethos
•+ountaineer
•
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Krakauer1s Personal Narrati'e
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•Constantly compares himsel to +cCandless (“, !as a t!enty%three2 a year youn"er than Chris
+cCandless !hen he !alked into the &laska
bush$-.;/0#
(“3hen , decided to "o to &laska that &pril2 likeChris +cCandless2 , !as a ra! youth !ho mistook
passion or insi"ht and acted accordin" to an
obscure2 "ap%ridden lo"ic$ -.//0#
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Impact on Reader
•Credible author% krakauer (Experience
•=eliable or not reliable
•+cCandless
(*ympathy
•*ol'es his o!n problems•>e ound the ans!er to his o!n problems althou"ht it !as to late
• &dded to the story
(Krakaeur1s narrati'e added to the story to sho! ho! 8uick !e are to
ud"e
•“The act that , sur'i'ed my &laska ad'enture and +cCandless didnot sur'i'e his !as lar"ely a matter o chance7 had , not returned
rom the *tikine ,ce Cap in .@552 people !ould ha'e been 8uick to
say o me%as they no! say o him% that , had a death !ish$ -.//0#
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