The cool thing about how Krakauer revised this novel is how he relates it to all teenagers. Unfortunately at the end of this memoir, Chris McCandless dies of what Krakauer believes to be starvation. I was begging in class for you to let us have down time so I could submerge myself into this virtual reality that I wanted to experience. As soon as I picked this book up, I could not put it down. This book is what I needed to become more knowledgeable of the circumstances and the things that could happen. My youth minister challenged me to go down to the inner city of Atlanta for two days and try to live like someone would if they had no money. Many thoughts ran through my head as I examined this book. Even though that is not what this book was about, the variation that he dropped everything to explore the world and all its wonders blows my mind how someone as genius as himself and not to mention how wealthy his family was. I have always been interested in dropping everything to live in poverty to feel what people less fortunate feel and to try to help them. At first when you asked us to do this project I assumed I would just find a book on spark notes to do, until I found this book at Borders. This book is one of my favorite books of all time. Krakauer explains in random chapters that catch you by surprise because you never know if he is talking about Chris or himself, both had very similar lives that he always had stories about and would relate his personal life to the life of Chris McCandless. Later on in the novel, the reader figures out that the author and main character are related through their similar relationships with their fathers, attraction to outdoors, and the similar things they each like to do. Because it’s a memoir, the reader knows that the author is, but it is hard to see how the main character and the author are related. The story starts out and it is telling about all these people and how they relate to Chris McCandless, but it is extremely hard to tell who is telling the story. But not only does he tell Chris’ story, he tells his own by fusing them altogether. Jon Krakauer is not the main character however he tells a story of this boy who leaves his well-developed family for no apparent reason. This is not your typical memoir where the author tells a story about their lives. Throughout the novel, Krakauer relates Chris’ adventures to his own experience in mountain climbing and living on his own. Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a memoir about how living in the wilderness and how Chris McCandless lived nearly two years in the wild.