Friday, February 19, 2010
An Insight of Chris McCandless's Life
Krakuaer writes about McCandless, I believe, in the best way he can. He seems to write based a lot on facts. Krakuaer does go off on those facts and expresses his feelings, but I don't feel like he took it too far. Although pathos and logos are common in this reading, I feel like their could be more pathos. The book, to me, seems to be sort of lifeless because of the lack of more pathos. He cannot really express much because he does not know a whole lot without taking it from non-fiction to fiction. If I were to the name the story I would title it An Insight of Chris McCandless's Life. Krakuaer is writing from looking on the outside in, he puts himself as best as he can in Chris situation, but he does not really know what was going on through Chris's head.
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Thats a pretty befitting title i think. I would have just kept it the same, mainly because i am bad with names. But the one thing im having difficulty seeing is when you talk about him having not very much pathos. I feel like most of the novel is pathos, a way to draw upon the reader sympathetically in hopes to get him to agree with his views. But then again, we both could be looking at it from different angles.
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