A) http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/borghetti\/123076979\/<\/p>\n
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume if you want something badly enough, it is your god given right to have it.” (John Krakauer, Into the Wild, 155)<\/p>\n
The photo I have chosen is of a man in a prison who seems lost at the bottom of an endless cell. I chose this because I felt it describes exactly what Krakauer was trying to say to the reader. He says that he climbed the mountain in hopes of it changing his life and in the end he truly gained nothing from the experience. In the same sense Chris McCandless is also gaining nothing on all the random adventures he sends himself on, instead he just continually gets more and more lost. For the sake of my argument lets assume that the man in the photo robbed a bank because he felt he deserved the money, but in the end he got nothing except an undefined amount of time spent in prison. In other words the actions one may take in order to pursue one’s desires or as Krakauer says “god given rights,” may end up harming oneself or as in the case of Chris Mccandless’ might possibly end up being fatal.<\/p>\n
B) http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rivello\/130503459\/<\/p>\n
“You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience.” (Chris Mccandless, Into the Wild, 57)<\/p>\n
this quote is from a line in a letter that Chris wrote to Ron in which he tells him to give up all his worldly possessions and basically go into a life of asceticism. I chose this photo because I feel that it exemplifies what Chris means by his statement that joy can be found in any thing. the man in the photo has his hands raised as he looks out onto the sunny beach. The area where the photo is shot seems to me to look mostly desolate and from what I gather the man is completely enjoying his surroundings. I feel that is the same sort of enjoyment that Chris got from his experiences out in the wilderness. He loved to be somewhere that he felt nobody else was or would be. As he says he found joy in every thing natural that God put around him.<\/p>\n
C) http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/18759075@N00\/131072010\/<\/p>\n
“DEATH LOOMS AS SERIOUS THREAT. TOO WEAK TO WALK OUT, HAVE LITERALLY BECOME TRAPPED IN THE WILD.” (Chris Mccandless, Into the Wild, 195)<\/p>\n
The photo depicts a fire hydrant in the middle of the forest. I chose this to go along with that passage because this is what I think of his depiction of being trapped in the wild. If by wild he means in a bus 6 miles north of a park ranger outpost then this fire hydrant is just as wild as a bear. I see it as Chris must have had some sort of death wish to give up so easily as to just accept that he can’t move anymore and just lay down and accept death. If he truly wanted to live nobody would have found him in a bus inside of a sleeping bag.<\/p>\n
D) http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/riel\/100277853\/<\/p>\n
“My father’s faith in this blueprint was unshakable. It was, after all, the path he had followed to prosperity.”
\n(John Krakauer, Into the Wild, 148)<\/p>\n
this is a photo of a syringe laying next to some cigarettes in a trash can. I chose this because he refers to his father as successful in this passage when later on in this section we read that he ends up completely addicted to drugs and eventually in a mental institute. it seems to me that the impression he had of his father throughout his childhood lead him to make some poor decisions early in life and he ended up going down his father’s path fairly quickly. this shows some of the mistakes they both made. He obviously smoked though I do not know if he still does, and his father fell into hard drugs which eventually lead to his down fall.<\/p>\n
(synthesis)
\nThough the photo may influence how we look at the caption placed below it and in turn how we look at Into the Wild as a whole, I feel it is the image that is effected by the caption more so than the text. But this I feel exemplifies how Krakauer’s choices of what to include in the book effects how we look at the story as a whole. Just as how the image I chose with the boy outside of the cave and the caption about how God places joy all around us may force us to look deeper into that image, Krakauer’s inclusion of misquoted material from James Joyce forces us to look at Alex\/Chris in a different way. There are probably hundreds of captions from the book that we could use to describe a number of pictures on here, just as there are many quotes he could have chosen to explain what Chris was going through. But he chose them for a specific reason and also to push our opinion in a certain direction. Just as I took a fire hydrant that is out in the middle of nowhere and used it to make Chris seem week or foolish, I also took the image of the cave and made him look philosophical. This assignment made me truly question Krakauer as the one conveying this story. It made understand that even though he feels Chris was in some way a great person, honestly nobody really knows what his intentions were. It could have easily been that Chris was just foolish and didn’t know what to expect. It just goes to show you, you can’t always believe what you read.\n<\/p>\n
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