Into the Wild is a true story of Christopher McCandless, a college graduate who was found dead in the Alaskan wilderness. After graduating with honors from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, he let his parents think he was interested in law school. Instead, he anonymously donated $25,000 of his savings to OXFAM America, abandoned most of his belongings, changed his name, and invented a whole new life for himself. He never contacts any of his family or friends ever again. No one had any idea where he was or what had become of him until his remains turned up in Alaska in 1992. McCandless grew up in the wealthy upper-middle-class of Virginia. He always had excellent grades throughout high school and was a very talented athlete. During and after graduating high school he took various extended solo trips across the country whenever he could. In his last trip before starting as a freshman at Emory he discovers that his dad secretly had a second family with his first wife during his childhood. He returns home from his trip feeling angry and betrayed …show more content…
By the beginning of August in 1990 his parents had become worried and decided to drive out to Atlanta to see their son. Five weeks earlier he had packed all his possessions in his yellow Datsun and headed west. On July 6th, he arrives to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. A few days later he abandons his car due to the damage a flash flood caused it and sets out on foot. From then on, he hitchhikes around the Northwest, getting jobs but not staying anywhere for long. He often lived on the streets and kept very few money and possessions as he possibly could. During this time he gets to know a few people rather closely, and everyone admired his eagerness to live completely by his beliefs, but avoids making close