Friday, March 5, 2010
In light of Krakauer's self-express, do you find his recount of Chris' story more or less credible? Explain your answer. When Krakauer explains
When krakauer explains his life and how he has a similar life as Chris. The one thing that got me though was that he had a story similar to Chris. Why was his story so similar to chris'? I had a feeling that he mightve spiced his story a little to make him seem as though he understood Chris' story better than ordinary readers. Since he wrote the story though, you'd want a writer that could relate. Through his painul story of his father and chris' story with his father, they totally related perfectly. Chris though, seems as if his story is a little more credible, because of all the letters and pictures that can prove his story. When krakauer uses his stories to relate, it made me change my idea of Chris a little because I bought of Chris as being like the only one with a bad relationship. Looking at krakauers stories, showed me that there are more people than you'd imagine to have bad relationships with parents.
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I think you have a similar opinion to me. It is pretty difficult to believe all of the similarities that Krakauer's account had with Chris'. I, too, believe that Krakauer may have either dramatized his experience on the Stikine Ice Cap or left information out of Chris' story so the similarities between the both of them would be much more evident. If Krakauer is telling the whole truth (which he probably isn't...) I think his story would have made Chris' more credible. I think whether it makes it more credible is reliant on each individual as we all interpret the usage of his adventure differently.
ReplyDeleteYou and Kryssa both say that you think either Krakauer's story or Chris's story has fictional information, or things left out, the purpose being to make parallel the stories enouggh so that Krakauer can make his point. I disagree though, the only true parallels between their stories is that they both made stupid decisions out in the wilderness, in the pursiot of something they love. If you find such similarity between their stories, then you would find the same similarity between thousands of other stories. Each one is distictive, but most stories of that nature can be bound by a single theme which is bad decision making. It worked out for Krakauer, it didn't work out for Chris, but Krakauer was an experienced climber with the proper gear. Chris was inexperienced and lacked proper gear. That difference in the stories should be enough to mark them as different, and therefore your reasoning for believing them to be falsified is debunked.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you. I think that by Krakauer sharing his stories, it makes Chris' stories sound more credible and makes Chris sounds less crazy. Especially the fact that they have similair relationships with their fathers and that having a broken relationship with your father could influence you to do something so crazy and risky. I also agree with you that Chris' story does seem more credible because he does have evidence of pictures and journals and ect. Krakauer also might have tweeked his story a bit to make his sound more dramatic and similair to Chris'. I agree a lot with what you're saying.
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