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1. Anecdote

2. Krakauer includes stories from people Chris met, like Wayne Westerberg (p. 16-30) and Jim Gallien (p 3-7).

3. These anecdotes humanize McCandless, showing how he affected others and giving readers multiple perspectives on his character

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One rhetorical device he use is figurative language. He used it in chapter one page 4. He says “rumpled blanket on an unmade bed.” What he meant by this is he was creating a image of terrain.

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1. Irony

2. On page 14 it says “Starvation was posited as the most probable cause of death.”

3. It would be natural to think that someone who is able to donate to a hunger charity be able to support themselves and not make actions that would lead to starvation.

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Imaginary

“The dessert is… spiritually cleansing, stripped of comfort.” (Pg 25.)

Krakauer uses imaginary to show how McCandless saw the wild as a place for personal growth and freedom.

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The rhetorical device used is intuition in some cases throughout the novel. “Curiously, when McCandless applied for the McDonald’s job, he presented himself as Chris McCandless, not as Alex, and gave his employers his real Social Security number.” CH5. Chris knew that he wouldn’t be able to provide for h8 self without any money and since he hadn’t legally changed his name he applied under his government & legal documents. This use of intuition demonstrates how although he didn’t show an ounce of common sense he still has some and used his intuition to get him further through his journey.

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He uses personification in pg 9. He says “the land itself was a desolation … ,lifeless , so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not that even of sadness.” He talked about the wilderness / outdoors as if were a living thing.

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1. Vivid language

2. Jon Krakauer used very vivid and well chosen words. For example page 9-10 the first paragraph of chapter two he’s very descriptive.

3. It helps us imagine what Chris/Alex actually lived. The entirety of page ten just describes what he saw and where he was going.

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-allusion

-“McCandless had been infatuated with London since childhood. Landon’s fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless passions. Mesmerized by London’s turgid portrayal of life in Alaska and the Yukon, McCandless read and reread “The Call of the Wild…” pg.44

- This allusions show how McCandless got influenced in this odyssey and influenced the way he saw the world. It shows how London motivated and inspired what McCandless had in mind when he thought and dreamed of this odyssey.

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1, facts/statistics

2, “and gave his employer his real social security number. It was an uncharacteristic break from his cover that might easily have alerted his parents to his whereabouts”(pg 40)

3, this is a fact on how he could have been found by his parents because he used his real social security number instead of a fake even thought he “changed his name”

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1 . Diction

2. On (page 40) Chris would comply with the rules, but son as his shift was over, bang! — the first thing he’d do is peel those socks off. I mean very first thing. Kind of like a

statement, to let us know we didn’t own him.

3. diction, he uses the words first thing to emphasize that he would waste time making him self feel back free wearing no socks

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1.diction

2.”he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris mccandless he was now Alexander supertramp, master of his own destiny.” Page 23.

3. He done this because he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, so he adopted a new name.

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Example:
Krakauer uses imagery in Chapter 5: “The Slabs… is a haphazard sprawl of fifty or so dilapidated trailers and ramshackle campers…”

Analysis:
This imagery helps readers visualize the rough, unconventional setting McCandless chooses, emphasizing his desire to live simply and apart from mainstream society.