Into the Wild Ch. 17 and 18

My overall view of Chris McCandless has only changed in the way that I feel even stronger about my opinion in the first place that McCandless was unique and not an arrogant, crazy fool for venturing into the wild so unprepared. I think that Krakauer's approach in the last two chapters was particularly effective. By basically addressing the naysayer over and over, and each time creating arguments that effectively, for some people, eliminate this point of view are extremely persuading. Although Krakauer is basically defending Chris repeatedly throughout the last two chapters, I think this is needed, because he really didn't really state his full opinion about Chris until the end. The ending was the portion of the novel, that Krakauer used to give his final opinion about Chris and his reasoning for his journey into the wild. This approach makes these chapters much more important and probably persuaded a lot more readers to adapt to Krakauer's opinion. Maybe even for some these chapters changed their mind's about Chris, which I think overall was Krakauer's purpose for writing this novel.