Chris Mccandless Argumentative Analysis

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This essay is going to be a argumentative essay about krakauer opinion of Chris McCandless. Krakauer mood changes throughout the book/story about how he feels about Chris he says a lot of stuff that he might disagrees and sometimes he agrees with him about it. Krakauer talk a lot of Chris because of the choices he made during the story and how he lived and how he tried to survive in the wild. I will also be talking about how he connects and the opposite of what he says about Chris McCandless. Krakauer didn't like Chris decisions about going in the wild because he was going to die there without any food or any place to stay or sleep or rest. Chris made a bad choice and he died in peace because he was a person who wanted to stay alone. Based …show more content…
Krakauer means that he didn't like his choices he made and he doesn't like how he died in the wild. ¨That Kind Of Thing¨. This quote means that Krakauer Chris made a bad choice in going into the wild alone and he wanted to be the only one there. ¨People From Outside¨. This quote means that no one from the outside should go get him because he was to be alone and see that he can survive by himself. Krakauer connects to him because he didn't like his decisions and he didn't like that he left because of his parents. Krakauer didn't like that Chris left without telling his parents because they were worried about him that he went to look for him months later but they didn't know he died until someone told they he died in the wild. Before Chris leaving into the wild he gave most of his money to poor people and then he went to the wild and burned all his money. He was offered to go to the store for food shopping but he declined and he went to the wild without an food and he didn't have anything to eat so he starved to death. That wasn't a really good choice to take you can't live without

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