Story Narrative
"Christopher McCandless (Alex/ Chris) graduates from Emory University and he went on a road trip. Then he decided to leave his family forever.
" A truck driver name Jim Gallien- an electrician- picked up Alex- a hitchhiker- his real name is Christopher Johnson McCandless). The hitchhiker says he is from South Dakota and requests a ride to Denali National Park. Gallien sees Alex as an intelligent young boy that lacks the necessities for surviving in Alaska.
Chris took his yellow Datsun car to Nevada. He donated all his money in the bank to a hunger charity. Then the author skipped to early September in 1992. Five strangers found a bus by a river near the Alaska’s Stampede Trial. The Anchorage couple noticed a bad smell and read Alex’s S.O.S. note. Then a hiker named Gordon Samel discovered Alex’s dead body. They called the police and starvation was recorded as Alex’s cause of death.
Then Chris abandoned his car because of a flood. So later on he is now walking on foot. Chris also decided to burn all of his money and buried his belongings. "Then two months later, Wayne Westerberg knew about Alex’s death. Wayne then thinks about the time he met Alex. He picked up Alex in Montana (1990). Alex stayed with Westerberg for three days and Westerberg helped Alex with his jobs. Alex worked for Westerberg. However, later Wsterberg was arrested for stealing. Alex gave Westerberg a book before he got arrested.
After many incidents, Westerberg learned more about Alex’s real life. Then the author described Alex’s real life as a boy from Annandale, Virginia. Alex or Christopher McCandless has a younger sister, Carine; a NASA engineer father and a mother. The author stated that McCandless ledt because he found out about his father’...
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...hris posted a sign for help in front of the bus where later hikers and hunters found his dead body. "On July 8, 1992, McCandless returns to the bus. He gathered edible berries and wild potatoes, but he is burning more calories than he consumes. He reads Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and finishes Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Chris realises that "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.” Chris is starving and knows that he will be dead.
The author also discussed about the causes of Chris’s death. Westerberg suggests that Chris at toxic potato seeds that can be toxic once they sprouted. However, he didn’t ate much so this shouldn’t be the reason. So the author stated that Chris might be confused with the wild potato and the toxic wild sweet pea. The author also suggests that Chris could be poisoned by moles on the seeds. At the end Chris wrote his last journal entry."
He failed to preserve the meat, ultimately ruining whatever he hadn’t already eaten - which amounted to a lot of food. Chris mourned over the loss of the life of the moose and chastised himself over wasting that life. After this incident, there was a noticeable shift in Chris’ character. He overlooked his life in a much more philosophical manner. The loss of the moose also showed a sympathetic and apathetic side of Chris that was not as apparent
Christopher McCandless, also known as Alex Supertramp , died at age 24 1992, went hitchhiking up in the Alaskan Stampede Trail and survived for four months. After his death Jon Krakauer, the famous arthur of "Into Thin Air", went to do research about Chris in order to have a better understanding of Chris McCandless death. Some believed that it was wrong for Krakauer to glorify McCandless’ death and that it was Chris’s fault to go into the wild without sufficient respect for the wilderness. Others believed that his actions reflect the confidence in an individual testing his own strength of character by pushing himself to the limits of his ability. Although, it is correct that it was Chris’s fault for going into the wild unprepared, however,
Chris went all around the western United States for about two years. He went on some adventures that he thought would help him find the meaning of life. He drove his old Datsun truck into the...
Seeing that Chris did not have a sturdy relationship with his father, he was driven by anger to go out to the Alaskan wilderness, he may have survived this adventure, or ev...
Many people dream about leaving everything behind and starting a new life, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Learning how to adapt to a new environment may be a challenge. In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Christopher McCandless has no knowledge of the conditions he’s going to face when he arrives in Alaska. I would classify Christopher McCandless as a fearless crazy guy, because he leaves his well-shaped life behind. McCandless is not prepared for his expedition to Alaska, because he’s not familiar with the different lifestyles. Making all of these changes to his life like, detaching himself from his family and changing his name to Alexander Supertramp was a bad idea; because losing all of his connections means that he has no help from the people who really know him.
In what could have been Chris McCandless’s last contact with humanity he tells his new comrade, Wayne Westerberg, “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t hear from me again I want you to know you are a great man. I now walk into the wild” (Krakauer 3). For 112 days Chris lived off the harsh Alaskan land. For anyone who is brave enough to travel on the stampede trail and cross the treacherous Teklanika River you will come across the Fairbanks City Transit System Bus 142. Once a backcountry shelter for hunters, trappers, ranger patrols, and for a short time Chris McCandless, Bus 142 now serves as a memorial for Chris McCandless. Travelers will make the trip to witness the basic resources Chris had at hand and the courage it took to make it as far as he did into his journey. Chris was not unaware of the dangers of the Alaskan wilderness. He was fully informed of the challenges he would face and was confident, maybe even hubristic, that he could overcome them. Non Supporters would argue this makes Chris a fool, reckless, brash, or even border lined unintelligent while in fact it is quite the opposite. Chris was a hero because he knew his differences and embraced them, his ambition and strive for perfection took his life, and he followed his dreams no matter the cost.
Krakauer writes that McCandless was, “consuming fewer calories than he was burning” (188). The other possible sequence of events is that McCandless was poisoned through ingesting potato seeds that contained solanine, “a poison that occurs in plants of the nightshade family, which causes, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and lethargy in the short term, and adversely affects the heart rate and blood pressure when ingested over an extended period” (190). However, the later course of events is highly unlikely given that McCandless would have needed to consume an incredibly high count of said seeds. According to Krakauer, “…given the light weight of his pack when Gallien dropped him off, it is extremely unlikely that he carried more than a few grams of potato seeds…” (190). Over the years, more explanations have come up, but there is no still conclusive evidence to point how he actually died. McCandless’ body was found in the abandoned bus by Gordon Samel, an employee at an auto-body shop in Anchorage, on September 6, 1992, two and a half weeks after Christopher McCandless passed away. Along with finding McCandless’ body, a couple from Anchorage, Alaska found a “disquieting note” taped to the door of the bus (12). The note read, “S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. August?”
The author wrote this story in response to a magazine company, and eventually published it into a book. He used many styles and techniques to describe the life and death of McCandless. The mood throughout the novel constantly varies with the excitement of McCandless’s adventures and the emotions caused by his disappearance. Krakauer’s ability to engage multiple senses of a reader truly makes his novel special.
The story starts out talking about how Alex is nervous for Day of the dead
August 1990: Chris’s parents drive to their son’s apartment to find that it has been vacant for some time.
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
Alex is a troublemaking kid who is the leader of a gang or as the book would call it a “shaika”. His gang participates in violent activities such as rape, stealing, vandalism, and many other malicious things. One of the worst gang scenes is in the book beginning of the book, which Alex calls, “the old surprise visit.”
Alex meets a young girl named Nadia and the two become good friends. These two experience even more weird events, such as becoming captured by Indians, discovering lost species who were presumed to be extinct (such as small, flying wyverns and the Beast[s]), and even discovering El Dorado (and possibly the Fountain of Youth). Eventually, Alex and Nadia foil a scam within the expedition’s crew and were almost shot (some of the crew members weren’t even aware of the scam). When these con-artists are arrested, Alex and Kate safely return
All in all, it is interesting how the trials of life can lead a person into an awakening that inspires millions. Many people believe that walking “into the wild” to live off the land and find himself alone in nature was arrogant, foolish and irresponsible. Chris lacks of knowledge about the wild was a major factor in his death. Chris did not plan how he will survive in the wilderness without proper equipments. He misunderstood that he would have no problem in setting in the wild. Chris immature manner and decisions lead him to starvation and ultimately death. If he planned it out in the beginning he would have saved his life.
Chris a sixteen year old African male enter into therapy seeking professional help. Chris grew up in an urban neighborhood in New York, together with his mother and father. Chris develop problems due to longing attention. He begins to act out, hang around with the incorrect crowd, and get into fights.