1. In Into the Wild Jon Krakauer shows that knowledge can cause one to think too deeply and therefore be dangerous. Chris is smart and thinks about big ideas, like family and society, but Wayne warns him that “it is a mistake to get too deep into that stuff” (18). Chris does not listen to Wayne, and this leads him to abandoning both society and his family. If Chris were to have listened to Wayne, he may not have died in Alaska. He ignores Wayne, though, trusts his intelligence, and it betrays him. Some may argue my point and say that Chris’ knowledge is what actually kept him alive for so long in Alaska. I say he was lucky. He found a “magic bus” and more-or-less never really had to ‘survive’. Chris no doubt was smart, but too much so. This combined with luck betrayed him. He thought too hard about his parents and the negative aspects of the world and that was his ultimate demise. This is similar to “Survivor Type” by Stephen King. This character, too, was smart. His intelligence stemmed from anger towards his dad and his knowledge made him a danger to both himself and to others around him.
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