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Summary Of 'Walden' By Jon Krakauer

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1- At first I thought in bringing here a presentation about The good the bad and the ugly''. However, recently I read this book here ''Walden by Thoreau'' and this book is mentioned in one of my favorite films: Into the wild. So I changed my mind, and now I'm gonna talk to you guys about it.
2 - The film was released in 2007, it is a biographical drama and it was directed by Sean Penn. It is adapted from this book, the author is the journalist Jon Krakauer. And this story is based on the life of an American young man called Chris McCandless.
3 - The Plot: The film and the book do not tell the story in a chronological order, but if we see the path of Chris organized in order of facts it goes like this:
In 1990, he graduates from University and rejects the money his parents gave to him and rejects all the lifestyle he had. He donates his money and without telling his family he is going on an adventure. …show more content…

During his journey he does a lot of things, he meets a hippie couple, he works in underemployment, he is caught by the police, he also meets the girl from twilight and a retired man who tells him his tragic story and teaches Chris the craft of leather work.
Months later he arrives in Alaska and finds an abandoned bus he calls ´´the magic bus´´ and he gets completely lonely, surrounded by the wild

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