Longe do sonho americano: uma análise socioliterária de Into The wild, de Jon Krakauer

Abstract

In this work, the main objective is to analyze, through a socioliterial bias, the ideology of the American Dream in Into the Wild, by the American writer and journalist Jon Krakauer, which is characterized as a biography of Christopher Johnson McCandless (Alexander Supertramp or Alex Supertramp), a young man who abandoned everything he had and traveled to Alaska in search of self-knowledge and liberation from the extremes of American ideology. This research took into account Krakauer's reports about interviews with Christopher's acquaintances and the writings found next to his body found on an abandoned bus in Alaska that functions as an ironic metaphor for the fate of the young man. The writings of Rosa Maria Baptista Amaral (2004), Daniel Boorstin (1962), Noam Chomsky (2017), Antônio Candido (2006), Denis Donoghue (1993), Pierre Melandri (2006), Terry Eagleton (1997) and Linda Hutcheon (2003), among others who were part of the research and gave structure to the analysis of the theme. We believe that this work could somehow conclude the idea of how people are influenced by the ideology of the American Dream, either seeking to follow it or fleeing it, and in the book, we might have perspective that Christopher had been driven to seek a new perspective for his life in American society, far from the American Dream.