Into The Wild Chris Mccandless Sparknotes

Christopher Johnson McCandless, also known as Alexander Supertramp was found dead in 1992 in the stampede trail by a group of Alaskan hunters. While visiting Denali National Park and Preserve on a yearly excursion. They radio for help and the FBI arrives and removes the body. Chris traveled extensively in the west of the United States. He traveled as his own view of what life was. Mccandless a bright educated man full of compassion gave up luxuries and comfort to pursue the love he had for adventure. Many words can describe Chris’s Identity of who he was and how he became the ways the book describes him. I would say that self reliance and survival.

Early in the book Chris was showing symptoms of self reliance. Such as depending

He loves to read books so it was obvious he was going to want to read a book there. Eventually he finds a scholarly research field guide to the area's edible plants. Which is great because it is useful for McCandless to know. Chris reads up about an introduction to the Dena'ina people, their country, and their plant classification system and second, individual plant descriptions and traditional uses. Even though people say Chris did not prepare himself, he actually did and in the best way possible. He not only worried about the material things he was going to use to survive like his rifle and rice. But also educated himself with books. Chris was using logic, for example is there was no game in Alaska what was going to be his plan B? He would have no other choice but to eat plants, Berries, fruits? Chris needed to know what was edible so he wouldn't just go out to eat everything and commit suicide. To think of it he knew what he was getting himself in to and he really was a smart

May 28: “ Gourmet Duck! June 1: “5 squirrels. June 2: “porcupine, ptarmigan, 4 squirrels, grey bird. June 3: “ another porcupine! 4 squirrels, 2 grey bird, ash bird. June 4: “A Third porcupine! Squirrel, grey bird.” on June 5: “ he shot a canada goose as big as a christmas turkey. Then, on June 9, he bagged the biggest prize of all: Moose! He recorded in his journal (166).
This is definitely survival because Chris was so unsure about killing animals. The book makes us feel that if he had another source of meat without killing he would. But he was in desperate need for meat. The moose was a huge animal that could feel a village and Chris couldn't get it all in one sitting. What he did to preserve his meat fresh was that he butchered the carcass, boiled the organs into stew and made a burrow near the steam to keep it. He also had this daily plan of what
He was going to do with it. For example on june 11 he removed the heart and other lung etc. On June 12 he removed half rib cage and steaks and on June 13 he started to smoke. All this information and what he practiced was from the advice of the hunters back at South Dakota. All this was the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual