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A comparison between London's To Build a Fire and Krakauer's Into the Wild, with specific reference to the way in which the respective protagonists react to and deal with the natural environment.
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could immediately establish similarities between Krakauers text and Londons, in the sense that both the protagonists are adventurous, both are independent and solitary, and both die as a result of
their personal characteristics and their desire to challenge and conquer the wild. However, there are also salient differences between the two narratives.
In the first place, Londons account is fictional, whereas Krakauers is based on research into a real individual, and extrapolations
as to his motivations and his character, derived from interviews with those who knew him and McChandlesss own documents. In the second, Krakauers tone is one of admiration for McChandlesss
journey into the wild, even though he has to acknowledge that it was unsuccessful in that the man did not survive it. (One is drawn to wonder, however, whether McChandless
himself would have regarded this as failure: we do not know for certain that he had not achieved his ambition, and proved his own strength of character to himself, before
he died. We know that he admired Thoreau, for instance - would Thoreau have considered Walden Pond a failed experiment, if he had not survived the wild and eventually returned
to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as merely the next logical process in his interaction with
the wild.) Londons character, on the other hand, is portrayed as someone who attempts to
challenge the wild without understanding it at all, or comprehending the measures human beings need to take to interact with the wild and still survive. "The tremendous cold, and the
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