Question

4. Reread Chapter 8 and consider the charges by others against Krakauer.

Answer 1

You mean the charges against McCandless? Kraukauer is the author.
This chapter seems to be a digression from the McCandless story, as Krakauer pads his novel with filler material, tangential stories of others who have died in the wild: Gene Rossellini, a "wayward genius...interested in knowing if it was possible to be independent of modern technology"; John Mellon Waterman, whose "life's work", became an "accumulation of notes, poetry, and personal journals"; Everett Ruess, an artist and writer who died in the Sierras; and the Papar, Irish monks, whose "remarkable voyages were... undertaken chiefly from the...