Based on the first 40 minutes of the film and Chapters 1–11 of the book, does the visual version of Chris’s journey make his choices seem more justified or more reckless than the text does? Explain how the medium (film vs writing) shapes your perspective.

 I think that the visual version of Chris's journey fails to make his choices seem more justified compared to the book. With the book, I am able to further understand Chris's motivations for his choices because of Krakauer's analysis of his decisions. The medium shapes my perspective because the author goes deeper into Chris's mindset, so I am able to understand why he might make the reckless choices that he did. Overall. the film allowed me to fully picture the situations that Chris put himself in to, yet failed to justify his choices as much as the book did.

In class, we started to watch the film and answered comparison questions.

I learned about how different medias allow for different understandings of a story or character.

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