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Summary Of Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

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In the Novel “Into the Wild” written by Jon Krakauer a student by the name of Chris McCandless graduates for Emory University and plans to go on a journey since he is done with college. Chris gets all of his college funds and donates them to the Oxfam organization, which is an organization that helps stop poverty and hunger in the United States. When he starts his journey he ceases talking to anyone including his family because he doesn’t want them to stop him and think he is a psychopath. Chris McCandless wants to go on a journey to a trail in Alaska. While hitchhiking to Alaska he ditches all his belongings and his car because of a flash flood. People that knew he was going to Alaska though he was a psychopath for trying to hitchhike all the way to Alaska. He didn’t care what anybody thought about him he wanted to be different than everybody else. Chris thought it was cool to be different; he wanted to try and see new things. Chris was very independent and brave. He just found it interesting and he wanted to enjoy a new experience so he ignored what everybody had to say about him. …show more content…

While on his journey he meets a guy named Jim Gallien. The way they both met is Jim was driving down the highway and he spotted Chris shivering and he pulled over to see what was going on. Jim invited Chris into his truck, Jim asked Chris what his name was and he responded with “Alex”. After that Chris and him have a conversation and Jim asks him if any of his friends or family know what he is doing and he told him that no one but him knew of his plan. Shortly after Chris is now known as Alex. When Chris is about to leave Jim’s house Jim’s wife packs him a big lunch even though Chris doesn’t want

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Throughout Chapters 14-17, Jon Krakauer tends to walk in Chris’s footsteps, trying to mimic Chris’s difficult journey. I think the approach of alternating between Chris’s journey and his is very successful in that the audience is able to better visualize Chris’s journey. For instance, Krakauer writes about his relationship with his father and the striking similarities that this relationship has with Chris’s insufficient relationship with his father, Walt. This instance helps the reader understand that Chris was not the only individual who was deeply afflicted by his father’s action and decided to throw his relationship with his father in the waste bin. Rather, by describing Krakaeur’s own experiences as a youth, he wishes his readers to understand

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They met at a bar while drinking westerburg was drinking white russian the bar was located in a small blue collar like town called carthage . Westerburg said that alex could talk for hours and that the whole town pretty much was attached to alex. On the other hand wayne had thick shoulders, black goatee and owns a grain elevator . After chris was picked up by westernburg as a hitchhiker chris stayed with him for three days; riding out with his crew every morning. During that time , wayne found out alex real

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In fact, people can say that he was stupid because Chris left at a young age. As Krakauer states “He didn’t appear to be very old: eighteen maybe nineteen at most. A rifle protruded from the young man’s backpack” (Krakauer 3). Chris wanted to go live of the land without having any knowledge of Alaska and he only bring a small bag of rice and a small .22 caliber rifle. It doesn’t make sense.

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Chris’ relationship with Walt was not very good but was not very bad. Walt was able to give money to Chris whenever he needed. Once Chris find out that he was still with another women to whom he was married to he did not have a good relationship wit him. This affected their relationship because he didn't trust his father with his mother. 9.

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In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer the main character Chris McCandless is not a role model and no one should be following what he did. After Graduating from college Chris thought it would be best for him to leave everything behind including his family and all the money his very successful father had left for him. Chris wanted to become homeless so he could figure out who he is as a person. One of the many reasons Chris left was because his father had two families and Chris's mother knew about his fathers double life but they both hid this from Chris and this made him furious. Chris went to the Alaskan bush in the winter and brought little supplies with him because he wanted to live off the land and survive with nothing, which is a horrible idea because Chris has no prior knowledge

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answers, Krakauer develops his own theory that McCandless consciously chose to avoid any human relationship after his separation from his family, so that he could bear, without fully appreciating, the loss of such relationships. For example, Krakauer states that McCandless continued to head north after Ron Franz, an elderly man who treated McCandless as his son, expressed a desire to adopt him. He explains, “McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north…relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the emotional baggage that comes with it. He had fled the catastrophic confines of his family. He’s successfully kept Jane Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm’s length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him.

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What Does “Crazy” Actually Mean? Christopher McCandless was a crazy young man. Although being book smart and getting good grades throughout high school and college, he didn’t know a thing about the wilderness.

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Into The Wild written by Jon Krakauer is a biography about a man named Chris McCandless and his struggles after traveling Into the Wild. Into the Wild begins when a young boy just out of college named Chris McCandless decides to disown the rules of society and chooses to live in the wilderness. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters and conflicts that shape his life forever. This book traces his steps from living in the wild all the way until his body was found on August 1992, on the Stampede trail in Alaska.

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Throughout the book, the reader gets a glimpse into the mindset of Chris, and why he chooses the path of seclusion from society. One such glimpse is from a letter written by Chris to his friend Ron, in which he persuades Ron to join him on his journey to experience the the truth to life. He writes, “If you want to get more out of

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Right before Chris entered the Stampede Trail, right outside Fairbanks, Alaska, he got a ride from a man named Jim Gallien, a trucker who happened to be passing through the area. Gallien was very concerned about Chris’s well-being and asked if anyone was coming with him or was part of this adventure. Chris recalls, “When Gallien asked [if] his parents or a friend knew what he was up to… [he] calmly answered that nobody knew” (6). This shocking piece of information proved that Chris had nobody that knew of his plan to disappear into the wilderness.

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Chris’s anger towards his father that made him want to travel away from Walt McCandless was that he had a completely other family that he was supporting and keeping it a secret from the whole family. In Chapter 7 in the book it states, “I'm

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He was a compassionate individual that was good with people, but he relished the reclusive structure of nature. Chris grew close with many people such as Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg, yet he eventually left them to continue his expedition. It was a selfish act in itself, but his loved ones failed to realize Chris was a troubled soul that did not fit in with the uniform

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He traveled all around the United States for two years, and he finally thought going to Alaska would be the best thing for him because it's the most isolated place that he could think of. This turns out to be a fatal mistake of the character. All throughout the book, Krakauer talks about Chris's struggle to isolate himself from society and does everything in his power to stay away from any intimate relationships. Even though Chris's main purpose for leaving was to stay away from everyone and be alone, Chris finds himself meeting and actually liking new people on his way to Alaska. Leaving like he did Chris cut all ties to his family, friends and towns people that he had known previously, so he was forced to talk to the people he hitchhikes with.

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Chris had a huge impact on everyone he knew, but he would not let them influence him or his decisions at all. He rebelled against his family because his father was too controlling. Later on, when any of his companions told him not to go to Alaska, or tried telling him to do anything that he did not want to, he would totally ignore them, and change the subject. As Krakauer writes in chapter 6, “McCandless…relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it. He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family.

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Based on a real story, Into the Wild can make us think from different perspectives about what the main character Christopher McCandless did. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a dramatic but also remarkable story from a young, newly graduated, college student that escaped for a long wild journey but never came back. As time passes throughout the book, the reader may notice how the main character interacts with society and nature, finally McCandless dies in the wild but even though he was struggling for survival he died happy. Some people never get out of their comfort zone, others are tired of it and retire from their comfort zone to have different experiences in life, some are good enough or some are terrible.

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