The book is widely used as high school and college reading curriculum. Into the Wild is an international bestseller which has been printed in 30 languages and 173 editions and formats. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. Go with someone who has already made the mistakes and survived so you don’t have to.Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. If you haven’t already then I highly recommend reading the book, or even watching the movie. Most people live on to learn but a small percentage, of which Chris was one, do not. It takes awhile to accept that the blanket of security we have is largely gone when we’ve hiked a mere handful of kilometers into the mountains. I did stupid things and made mistakes, but thankfully I survived to learn from them. When I think back about my first forays into the wilderness around me here I can’t help feeling I dodged a few bullets. You will find only the truth about existence in nature.
It bears none of the shackles of society, none of the rules, none of the lies. The wild has called many people because it was here before man and it will be here after us. He died too soon, but in my opinion he also lived more than most. I understood Christophers motivations as I was now standing in his shoes. That anger I’d initially felt was assuaged. I did so the very next night and that different feeling I had from the book remained. Immediately I planned to re-watch the movie. Krakauer also spends time reflecting on his own exploits in his youth that could have ended the same way, with his untimely death and a media response that would have labeled him as ignorant and reckless.Īfter reading the book, I felt different.
#INTO THE WILD BOOK AND MOVIE MOVIE#
I knew the story already but Krakauer doesn’t just tell it like the movie does, he spends time analyzing Chris’ actions as someone who is also bitten by the call of the wild. I read through it pretty fast, which is unusual for me as I can take a year or more to read a short book. I felt I needed to revisit this story again, to get a fresh perspective on it, so I rented out the book. I stare over at the hills and peaks that surround the town where I live and wish to go there always. The person I am now does nothing but dream about the wild and being surrounded by it. It was like these were the memories of somebody else, somebody I no longer recognized. It was only upon seeing the book on the shelf by the same name that the memories of how angry I’d felt about that movie flooded back into my mind. Truthfully, I hadn’t thought much about the story of Christopher McCandless since 2007. Back in 2007, Krakauer was an unknown to me, but now, in 2012 he is someone I know a fair bit about due to our mutual love of mountaineering and high peaks.
My perceptions changed steadily, almost, unnoticeably, so in 2012, while looking for a book to take out at the library (yes people still use those) I seen “Into the wild” by Jon Krakauer. I discovered the outdoors and embraced it. I guess spending most of my time motionless for so many years had left me feeling like my life was also standing still. I didn’t know what awaited me there, I just needed to do something different. I moved from Ireland with my wife on a whim to seek out adventure in Canada. It left me slightly angry that this story would even be worth writing about, let alone get turned into a movie.įast forward to 2010. He’d ignorantly walked into the wild without training or proper equipment and died when an individual with even a modicum of sense wouldn’t have. So when I watched the film “Into the wild”, directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch, I couldn’t believe that this individual had so selfishly ended his life. I had no interest in the great outdoors and couldn’t understand individuals who did. When I first watched “Into the wild” back in 2007 I was working in IT, playing video games in my spare time and trying to do as much as possible to remain stationary 7 days a week. Will contain spoilers, you’ve been warned.
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.
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