Jon Krakauer. Butch Killian. Gail Borah. Jan Burres. George Dreeszen. Everett Ruess. Samuel Walter McCandless, jr. Jim Gallien. Wayne Westerberg. Roman Dial. Chris Fish. Loren Johnson. Peter Kalitka. Andy Horowitz. Eric Hathaway. Ronald Franz. Jim Freeman. Christopher McCandless. Related new publisher series Ein Malik-Buch. This is evidenced when, although he has no deadline, no need to get to Alaska by a certain time, he becomes extremely impatient when delayed on the Alaska Highway, as though he has an important deadline to meet.
As we also saw when he tried to canoe to the Gulf of California, even when trying to accomplish something decided on a whim, he is incredibly persistent, and will not easily give up. Although he may not have ambitions to climb the ladder of capitalist American society, he certainly is ambitious. This once again highlights the importance of perspective, for what is a valuable and ambitious goal for one person seems foolhardy and useless to another.
McCandless getting picked up by Gaylord Stuckey for the whole ride to Fairbanks is another example of someone going the extra mile for him. Stuckey agrees to drive him even though, with his work, it is expressly forbidden, and he could lose his job if he is caught.
Yet, like so many others, he is charmed by McCandless, and so he agrees to give him a ride. This on the one hand emphasizes that there was something deeply special about McCandless, yet it also emphasizes that although McCandless was so insistent on independence, he very often relied on others, on the kindness of strangers, and almost everyone he came across did far more than the bare minimum to help him—like Jim Gallien, who gave him not only a ride, but also his lunch and his boots.
As Gallien drives McCandless to his drop off point, McCandless gets very excited, and his journal entries and photographs show that when he gets to the bus which will become his final home, he is ecstatic to be alone in the wilderness.
The day to day effort of trying to find food and stay alive quickly sets in, however, and the reality of living this extreme way takes away from the romance of it. His notebook is almost exclusively about what he ate every day, for the effort to stay alive is so all consuming that there is little time for contemplating the serenity, for philosophizing on the wilderness. The difference between this, and for example, the writing of Jack London which he loves so much, shows that there is much more room for romance in literature than in reality.
There is also a certain irony in this difference, especially as Jack London himself barely spent any time in the wild. McCandless does seem to undergo some changes, though, beyond the physical losing weight. Although these are fairly small examples, they hint at McCandless becoming a more dynamic character, capable of learning, growing and changing.
The Question and Answer section for Into the Wild is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. How did he died. On the note he wrote pp. I think that at this point in his life, Chris was realizing who he really is: he now reaizes his alter ego was not really him.
Both parents are very well educated and hold big jobs. He leaves the university campus and pitches his tent on frozen ground not far from the road that will take him to the Stampede Trail. Tramping through the bush, McCandless soon discovers the abandoned bus along the Sushana River and celebrates the discovery by writing in his journal "Magic Bus Day. After about a month, though, McCandless is routinely shooting and eating squirrels, porcupines, and spruce grouses.
He devours local lingonberries and rose hips and climbs a nearby butte. On June 9, , McCandless kills a moose, and he is so proud of this feat that he takes a photo of the carcass. He spends days trying to cure its meat so he can consume every part of the moose. But he preserves the meat incorrectly, with the result that it becomes infested with vermin and therefore inedible.
McCandless must leave the moose carcass for the wolves, which leaves him feeling deeply guilty. McCandless lists the preparations necessary for leaving the bus, bringing his "final and greatest adventure" to a close. He has made some fatal errors, however. Halfway back to the road, he discovers a three-acre lake in his way.
When he first crossed the same area in April, the series of beaver ponds leading up to the Teklanika River had been frozen over and were easy enough to traverse; now, in July, these same beaver ponds have melted. Moreover, the river itself, knee-deep at winter's end, has become a raging torrent — and McCandless is a weak swimmer.
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