ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Henry David Thoreau, Jon Krakauer, Christopher Mccandless
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He seems to take up a pseudocharacter" in his wriing. Chris mccandless: tries to get away from the domesicated nature. A rite of passage" for a young person. Did she experience indigeneity: she kept going back to her white characterisics. The book is about the person wriing it rather than about chris himself. Cover page: a bus, and the introducion of the text: gives a sense of mystery, feel of adoraion/admiraion. A narraive of arresing force (washington post: gripping journey of a man. Engrossing, with a teling eye for detail (la times book review) Text is selling itself(cover, blurbs, picture) as a thriller or mystery: something that needs to be solved. Christ"s story is presented as a saga and as a narraive as a tragedy . Mainly through it is being sold to us as a travel romance . something that we read in order to ind fulillment, soluion.
