'Internal Conflict In Into The Wild'

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In the book into the wild I think that Alex started with an internal conflict which was caused with people being negative. Telling him that he was irresponsible rather than smart. Those event eventually lead to an external conflict wich put him in the hands of danger battling nature's fury. After a while of the battle of his external conflict he was led to his death. In the story the was parts of it that led me to infer that he was going to die which eventually did happen. In the beginning of the story he caught a ride from a truck driver the driver insisted that he took his boots some money and other stuff but alex said no and the driver thought he was crazy and die. In a point of the book when he was crossing the border and i thought that

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