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Overview
Author
Jon Krakauer
Year Published
1996
Type
Nonfiction
Genre
Adventure
Perspective and Narrator
Jon Krakauer is the author and narrator of Into the Wild, which tells the story of Chris McCandless and his ill-fated quest to live a transcendental life off the grid.
Tense
Into the Wild shifts between past and present tenses, as Krakauer narrates events that occurred in McCandless's and his family's lives between 1985 and 1993 as well as autobiographical events and biographical anecdotes. This sequence of events does not follow chronological order.
About the Title
The book's title Into the Wild refers to Chris McCandless's enthusiastic quest to live alone in nature, like his hero, Henry David Thoreau, as well as McCandless's shocking disappearance and death in the wild.
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