Taylor+Pestorius+RP+Post+3


 * 1) Are there any untrue assumptions made about Chris McCandless that would positively/negatively effect one's view of his character?
 * 2) //Into the Wild//
 * 3) Jon Krakauer
 * 4) Print, accessed today
 * 5) SOAPSTone:
 * 6) Subject: Chris catching a moose and it being identified as a caribou.
 * 7) Occasion: Journalists visited the bus and found the moose remains that Chris wrote about and mistook it for a carbou.
 * 8) Audience: all critics of Chris
 * 9) Purpose: to prove (or at first, disprove) Chris's hunting knowledge
 * 10) Speaker: Reporters and critics of Chris
 * 11) Tone: condescending, supportive
 * 12) Chris wrote about shooting a moose in his notebooks. Later, the author visited the bus where Chris stayed, and the hunters that came with him identified the carcass as a caribou. In the author's first published piece about McCandless, he wrote Chris misidentified the animal. This caused criticism from many about McCandless's expertise. The animal was later identified as a moose.
 * 13) One of the major reasons Chris was criticized was disproved.
 * 14) This is fact, so I'm totally convinced.
 * 15) "Among the letters lambasting McCandless, virtually all those I received mentioned his misidentification of the caribou as proof that he didn't know the first thing about surviving in the back-country. What the angry letter writers didn't know, however, was that the ungulate McCandless shot was exactly what he’d said it was. Contrary to what I reported in Outside, the animal was a moose, as a close examination of the beasts remains now indi?cated and several of McCandless’s photographs of the kill later confirmed beyond all doubt" (Krakauer, 125).

> If you've known parents of children who suffer from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, you know about the wanderings. If you don't, go read the blog of someone who claims to be a 'Chris' who survived" (Medred).
 * 1) Are there any connections between McCandless and other "adventurers"?
 * 2) A death in Oregon sparks another look at 'Into the Wild'
 * 3) Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
 * 4) http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130827/death-oregon-sparks-another-look-wild
 * 5) Website, 5/27/14
 * 6) SOAPSTone:
 * 7) Subject: Jonathon Croom was inspired by McCandless to venture into the wilderness.
 * 8) Occasion: His body was found.
 * 9) Audience: Croom's loved ones
 * 10) Purpose: to clarify that McCandless was mentally disturbed, and the book is partly fiction.
 * 11) Speaker: sassy Alaskan journalist
 * 12) Tone: snippy and condescending
 * 13) A boy was recently found dead in the Oregon wilderness, and was thought to be inspired by Into the Wild. The book and the movie avoid the fact that McCandless likely had schizophrenia and anyone in their right mind wouldn't do what he did. Still, many others have died trying to escape into the wild.
 * 14) The story of Into the Wild is fiction. McCandless was mentally ill and that's why he ran away.
 * 15) I can't say I'm totally convinced. I feel like if McCandless's schizophrenia, he wouldn't be so well liked by so many of the people he met. I don't think he was crazy in the beginning, he just wanted to escape.
 * 16) "No one should have known better than the mother of the late Chris McCandless, the subject of "Into the Wild," how meaningless those words are. Chris was one of those troubled young men who suffer mental illness in their early adult years and flee family and friends for reasons hard to explain.