![]() Synopsis: Chris was a young college graduate who went off to Alaska in search of a life without the trappings of money and his upper-class upbringing. It generated so much interest, that he decided to turn it into a book – Into the Wild – which he spent three years researching and writing. It is based on an article that Jon Krakauer wrote about Chris McCandless in 1993 for Outside magazine, titled “Death of an Innocent”. It is similar to a biography but does not go in chronological order. We will begin with the non-fiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, which is the most well-known and comprehensive piece about Chris’s story.ģ Focus continued We will focus on media issues such as: -how bias (personal opinion on the part of the author) affects a story -the differing structures of written and visual texts (like films) -conventions of technological and print mediums -the intended/target audience of different kinds of texts -everything else stated in the part 2 goals about the purposes and influences of different kinds of mediaĤ Origins of the book Into the Wild is a non-fiction text published in 1996 that tells a real life story. We will be looking at ONE STORY (the true story of Chris McCandless’s life and death) and seeing what new information is presented, and how the focus of the story changes, when it is presented in different genres/pieces of media by different people. INTRODUCTION INTO THE WILD By: Jon Krakauer
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