Consider the following passage from Richard Millers essay The Dark Night of the Soul: What makes Into the Wild remarkable is Krakauers ability to get some purchase on McCandlesss actual reading practice, which, in turn, enables him to get inside McCandlesss head and speculate with considerable authority about what ultimately led this young man to abandon the comforts of home and purposefully seek out mortal danger. Krakauer is able to do this, in part, because he, as well as to his journals and the postcards and letter McCandless sent to friend during his journey. Working with these materials and his interviews with McCandlesss family and friend. Krakauer develops a sense of McCandlesss inner life and eventually comes to some understanding of why the young man was so susceptible to being seduced by the writing of London, Thoreau, Muir, and Tolstoy. Who McCandless is and what becomes of him are, it turns out, intimately connected to the young mans approach to readingboth what he chose to read and how he chose to read it. (429) When Miller is writing about Krakauers Into the Wild, he seems to suggest that what we read, and how we read, can say something about who we are and about what we might become. This is a very bold claim. Part 1: Miller says that Jon Krakauer as a reader can both gain insight into McCandlesss actual reading practice, and, as a result get inside McCandlesss head in order to speculate about why McCandless lived and died as he did. Miller has provided you with an essay that may allow you to get some purchase on his own actual reading practices. Choose two or three passages that represent Millers work as a reader, as represented in his essay. Use those passages to identify, interpret and illustrate what you see as his actual reading practices. Part 2:

Consider the following passage from Richard Millers essay The Dark Night of the Soul: What makes Into the Wild remarkable is Krakauers ability to get some purchase on McCandlesss actual reading practice, which, in turn, enables him to get inside McCandlesss head and speculate with considerable authority about what ultimately led this young man to abandon the comforts of home and purposefully seek out mortal danger. Krakauer is able to do this, in part, because he, as well as to his journals and the postcards and letter McCandless sent to friend during his journey. Working with these materials and his interviews with McCandlesss family and friend. Krakauer develops a sense of McCandlesss inner life and eventually comes to some understanding of why the young man was so susceptible to being seduced by the writing of London, Thoreau, Muir, and Tolstoy. Who McCandless is and what becomes of him are, it turns out, intimately connected to the young mans approach to readingboth what he chose to read and how he chose to read it. (429) When Miller is writing about Krakauers Into the Wild, he seems to suggest that what we read, and how we read, can say something about who we are and about what we might become. This is a very bold claim. Part 1: Miller says that Jon Krakauer as a reader can both gain insight into McCandlesss actual reading practice, and, as a result get inside McCandlesss head in order to speculate about why McCandless lived and died as he did. Miller has provided you with an essay that may allow you to get some purchase on his own actual reading practices. Choose two or three passages that represent Millers work as a reader, as represented in his essay. Use those passages to identify, interpret and illustrate what you see as his actual reading practices. Part 2: