Krakauer's Into the Wild
I'd never read Krakauer's Into the Wild , though I'd heard of it a number of times. I am now very glad I read it, despite the number of heartbreaking moments that were difficult to read. McCandless' journey was incredibly interesting to read about, and I think that even as a high school student I would have enjoyed reading it for class. Many of McCandless' ideas, while eventually leading to his demise, are at least thought-provoking. Via Krakauer's research into McCandless' interests and story, the reader is introduced to questions about society, family, and nature. In high school I took Environmental Science as an elective science class my senior year, and this would have been a nice book to use to tie literature into what we were learning about natural resources and our relationship as humans to the natural world. In the future, I could see myself using this for an English class. It's not what I would have typically thought of using, mostly because i...