Follow Up Articles on Into the Wild

Read the following article.  What is the writer's central argument about McCandless?  How does he develop his argument through evidence?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pete-mason/remembering-christopher-mccandless_b_1777825.html



Read the following piece that Krakauer wrote twenty years later in the New Yorker magazine.  What is his purpose in writing this piece?  How does it correspond with his central argument in Into the Wild?

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccandless-died


Read the following article from Alaska Dispatch News.  What is the central argument or purpose of this piece?  What evidence does the writer use?

http://www.adn.com/article/20130920/beatification-chris-mccandless-thieving-poacher-saint


Consider how the following three pieces help you to synthesize your own argument about McCandless.  Craft your own argument, and begin compiling a list of evidence from the book and the articles that support your argument.