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My thoughts on the book:

  • Overall Chris McCandless is intelligent and idealistic, however he is naive to think 'the odds didn't apply to him' as his father announced
  • Chris McCandless entered the wilderness unprepared and made a couple of crucial mistakes that cost him his life
  • McCandless was friendly and easily likable which is why so many people took him under their wing

Main Characters

  • Bob and Jan Burres- Nurtures: divided from her own son, she takes special interest in Chris
  • Charlie- Caretaker: allows Chris to stay in empty RV
  • Ronald Franz- Wants to adopt Chris as his grandson: gives McCandless a ride from Salton City, California, to Grand Junction, Colorado
  • Jim Gallien-Picks up: Last person to see Chris alive, drops Chris off at Alaska's Stampede Trail, gives McCandless his boots

Main Characters

  • Wayne Westberg- Employs: gives Chris a ride, a place to say and a job
  • Billie McCandless- Mother
  • Walt McCandless- Father
  • Carine McCandless- Sister
  • Anchorage Couple- Finds Chris's remains

Into the Wild

  • Publication Date- 1996
  • Writing Process- assistance from the McCandless family; giving Jon Krakauer full access to Chris's papers, letters, and photographs and talked for a great length of time
  • Setting- McCandless spends two years throughout the western US until finally making it to his ideal location; Alaskan Wilderness

Literary Movement

Investigated Journalism

  • Influences- Jon Krakauer uses a personal experience to help explain how many people have done such a thing like Chris McCandless.
  • It gave a sense of 'I'm just like him' and a connection to how Chris thought.

Literary Movement

Investigated Journalism

  • Concerns- Chris McCandless is believed to be crazy, psychotic, but really he is just like everyone else
  • He made a couple of mistakes that cost him his life
  • If he wouldn't of made these little mistakes, he would of eventually made his way out of the wild; leaving his odyssey just a book mark in his memories

Jon Krakauer

  • Birth- April 12, 1954 (age 60)
  • Grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father introduced him to mountaineering at the age of 8
  • Graduated from Hampshire College in 1976
  • Divided life between Alaska, Colorado, and Pacific Northwest- supported himself as a commercial salmon fisherman and carpenter
  • Life revolved around climbing mountains- climbed Mt. Everest in 1996

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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