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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless is the definition of rebellion. His spiritual or emotional awakening, for lack of a better term, has led him to basically quit society. He donates his college fund to OxFam,...
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Into the Wild
There is plenty of evidence in this great account of the life of Chris McCandless that could be used to suggest that he was very foolish. You might want to start off, however, by examining the...
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Into the Wild
According to a letter he wrote to Ron Franz, Chris McCandless believed that true happiness comes from experiencing new things. He says that ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly...
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild is structured into chapters, with each chapter headed by quotes, diary entries, and postcards from Chris McCandless; these help define the themes of each chapter, as well as providing...
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Into the Wild
A number of elements come together to provide Chris's purpose for walking into the wild. Much of his motivation was related to his parents and the resentment he harbored toward both of them. He...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless was an admirer of Henry David Thoreau, and adopted many of the writer's ideals in his own life. He sought simplicity in his own life and tried to live without adhering to material...
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Into the Wild
The bus became the symbol of Chris McCandless's facing his ultimate challenge of living—and ultimately dying—on his own in the wild. Chris went into the Alaskan wilderness in a deliberately...
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Into the Wild
Readers should look to chapter 8 for the answer to this question. This is one of the chapters in which author John Krakauer spends significant amounts of time discussing similarities between...
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Into the Wild
One way to define ethics is to understand it as doing the right thing even when it costs one personally. An ethical person lives out his or her beliefs, walking the walk instead of talking the...
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Into the Wild
This is a very interesting question to consider, as Krakauer in his riveting account of Chris McCandless's life reports the way in which otehrs dismiss him as an example of arrogance, naivety and...
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Into the Wild
Syntax is the arrangement of words that make up a sentence. It is closely related to diction. Diction is the author's word choice, and syntax determines how the author uses those words within a...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless deliberately cut himself off from society in a journey to find himself. In doing so, he made the mistake of never fully revealing his location to others, preventing them from...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless, or as he was also known, Alexander Supertramp, had a rather unique idea of the American Dream. While, at it's core, it was certainly modeled after "life, liberty and the pursuit...
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Into the Wild
In terms of this question, chapter 1 can almost be completely ignored. The entire chapter focuses on McCandless's interaction with Gallien in Alaska. McCandless's sister, his parents, and...
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Into the Wild
It's often been said that there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. And it's fair to say that Chris McCandless crossed that line when he embarked upon his death trip to Alaska. Yes, he...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless was inspired by the writings of Thoreau, Emerson, Tolstoy, and Jack London to live a non-sedentary existence and experience the natural world without the comforts and amenities of...
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Into the Wild
Two quotes follow, the first being from A Journal of the Plague Year: [A] close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the...
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Into the Wild
The quote from Doctor Zhivago that opens Chapter 18 was highlighted by Chris and is relevant on a number of levels. First and most importantly, it spoke to Chris's need to spend time alone to...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless is described as a charismatic individual, who left an indelible impression on everyone he met during his hiatus throughout the western United States and Alaska. As a transient...
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Into the Wild
Chris meets Ron Franz in Chapter Six, when Franz gave him a ride back to a hobo camp. Franz took a liking to Chris, and they spent a lot of time together during the next month. When Chris left,...
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Into the Wild
There are a lot of different literary devices used in Krakauer's book Into the Wild. Chapters 1 and 2 are no exceptions. A common literary device that Krakauer uses throughout the book (and...
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Into the Wild
The biggest difference for me, and the reviewer below, was the fact that the movie was really showing the fact that Sean Penn loves the idea of Chris McCandless. Krakauer certainly did too in the...
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Into the Wild
In using pathos, an author appeals to the emotions of the reader. To be convincing, a written work must use both pathos and logos. Logos is an appeal to logic: it persuades through use of facts,...
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Into the Wild
The details of Chris’ graduation and then the beginning of his fatal adventure are detailed in Chapter 4. The reader is told that he graduated in May 1990 and that his family attended his...
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Into the Wild
Rather broad question, but here goes: Krakauer's interest in the story likely grew out of his own desire to challenge cultural norms, particularly when it came to taking on challenges of the great...
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Into the Wild
I do agree. In Chapter 17, the author goes on to explain that McCandless distrusted things that came easily, demanding "much of himself - more, in the end, than he could deliver"....
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer felt a connection with Chris as soon as he wrote the initial article on Chris's death for Outside Magazine. The story both troubled him and nagged at his curiosity until he felt...
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Into the Wild
It is worth thinking about how carefully Krakauer structures this book and in particular how the narrative shifts between two sections of the life of Chris McCandless. It starts, for example, with...
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Into the Wild
At the time at which Christopher McCandless interacted with Jim Gallien, McCandless was still "hiding" from his family; he did not want to be found, especially by his parents, who he had managed to...
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Into the Wild
McCandless chronicled his meanderings after graduation in a journal snapshot album. He traveled first to Lake Mead, where he ignored warnings posted against off-road driving and camped on the dry...
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Into the Wild
Chris graduated from High School in 1986. After giving his father the gift of a fine telescope and expressing his thankfulness for all he had done for him, he left on the first of a series of...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless tried to avoid creating emotional attachments to people, believing that it would hinder him in the pursuit of his personal goals. Therefore, although many of the people he met on...
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Into the Wild
Jim Gallien is the man that meets Alex when he is ready to embark on the final leg of his long journey to find whatever it is he thinks he would find "in the wild." As Alex walks along the road in...
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Into the Wild
Franz gave Chris McCandless a machete, a collapsible fishing pole, an arctic parka, and some other unnamed gear. The fishing pole is never mentioned again, so there is no way to know what happened...
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Into the Wild
Walt McCandless shared a number of qualities with his son Chris. Perhaps the most striking of these is a deep underlying intensity. The author says of Walt, "the set of his jaw betrays an...
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Into the Wild
When writing an argument in favor of McCandless, be prepared to meet a crossfire of opinions regarding the topic. Therefore, to argue that McCandless is a "hero", you should have both the evidence...
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Into the Wild
The way that I interpret this question is that it is asking if any company logos appear in the book. I can provide two specific times when Krakauer comments on a specific logo within Into the...
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Into the Wild
I think this question can most succinctly be answered by refering to Chapter Six, which details the relationship that Chris McCandless formed with Ron Franz. What is notable about this relationship...
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Into the Wild
In his essay "Self Reliance," Emerson tells his readers to trust themselves and to look into their own hearts and souls to find their unique destinies. For Emerson, self-reliance was the opposite...
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Into the Wild
Though the father's description is only briefly detailed, you can make a lot of conclusions by just focusing on Chris. What we get as far as the father is a man who is very driven, business savvy,...
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Into the Wild
Chris is described as being a self-taught student of Tolstoy, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism; his ideals focused on self-growth and harmony with nature, not on materialism. Chris grew up in an...
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Into the Wild
First, his past identity and life troubled him. He had an estranged relationship with his father, and could see little point in living his life according to the formula others had given him. By...
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Into the Wild
One of the strongest themes of this story is that idea that individual freedom cannot exist outside of one's involvement in society. In other words, one cannot remove oneself from the society of...
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Into the Wild
Jim Gallien, a union electrician, picks up a hitchhiker about four miles out of Fairbanks on Tuesday, April 28, 1992. The hitchhiker introduces himself only as "Alex", and asks for a...
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Into the Wild
Chris McCandless's younger sister Carine "looks enough like him that people frequently asked if they were twins". She is "energetic and self-assured", and, like Chris,...
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Into the Wild
After retreating back to base camp, Krakauer considered making another try up the mountain; although he really "didn't want to go up on the Thumb again at all...the thought of returning...in...
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Into the Wild
Whether or not Chris McCandless was completely ignorant and very lucky most of the time is up to each reader to decide. There are going to be readers that find McCandless inspiring, brave, and...
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Into the Wild
Chapter 12 opens with Chris graduating from high school and embarking on a cross country trip alone. It is later learned that he got lost in the Mojave desert and almost died, but Chris reacts...
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Into the Wild
This is going to be a very open question, and I am not sure there is any "one" answer. What I suggest you do is try and answer this question based on your own experience. When you read the book,...
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Into the Wild
Ron Franz was an old man who became fast friends with Chris; after leaving, Chris wrote a long letter to Franz and encouraged him to live more freely. Franz had lost his wife and son to a drunk...
