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This chapter is about Chris's relationship with his family and all the drama it brings along.

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Krakauer flashes  back to McCandless’s life growing up as well as his family, and  gives the reader insight within his relationship with his father.

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An insight into the investigation of Chris’s body. The interest of Chris’s death with the public allows Sam, Chris’s half-brother, to inform his family.

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Introduces a new character ronald franz and shows how easily he can acquire new friends.

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There is a reflection of Chris’s family history and explains the effect it had on him. People find out about chris’s death and people respond in more than one way.

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Chapter 11 is about Chris’s relationship with his family, how it was like living with his Father.

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Jon’s Journey to the mountain and shows his experience and compares it to Chris’s adventure.

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The last days of Chris McCandless’s expedition, as he strayed away from society to be living into the wild (M6A17). McCandless met many individuals who helped him get across towards Alaska.

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After flash flood, Chris hides his car, buries his license plate, and burns his money.

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This chapter is focused on Chris’s life growing up and the relationship with his parents before he left home.

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Krakauer goes to meet Westerberg to discuss his relations with Chris and his feeling toward his family.

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In addition to Chapter 8, Krakauer continues to describe other similar explorers, mostly with Everett Ruess, by comparing and contrasting them to McCandless, further convincing the reader that McCandless’s actions and thoughts can be justified.

Activity 23

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Due to the rocky relationship Chris McCandless had with his father, it caused him to have pent up anger and make impulsive decisions to take road trips; however, he was not uneducated nor did he lack common sense (M6A23).

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This chapter involved Chris working at Mcdonalds and it starts to show independent Chris can be.

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He has moved on to the small town of Bullhead City, Arizona where he works in a McDonald’s and meets Charlie, a colorful old man who takes him and gives him a home in his camping trailer.

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Chapters 1-7 are about Chris’ journey to Alaska and about how he dies(M6A17). We learn about the friends he made along the way.

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Westerberg hires McCandless to work at the grain elevator and gives him a cheap place to stay. Believed Alex was one of the hardest workers.

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This chapter is about Chris living in BullHead  City and an insight on his time working at McDonalds.

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This chapter gives information and backstory on Carthage and Westerberg to show the beginning of Chris’s journey.

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Krakauer and McCandless started to compare their experience and life stories.

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Jim drives down the road and picks up a hitchhiker, who is Chris McCandless, and drops him off at Stampede Trail.

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Krakauer flashes forward to McCandless’s death, and reconnects the pieces regarding how his body was identified (M6A23).

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Krakauer continues with his experience with the Devils Thumb.

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Chris is compared to the other hikers.

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Focuses on Chris’s relationship with his sister and details the event of how she acted when she discovered her brother was dead.

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Chapter 8, Krakauer writes about how others felt about McCandless, and he also writes about people with similar experiences.

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We meet Franz and learn about his relationship with Chris and the impact he had on Franz life

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Carine learns of Chris and his death from her boyfriend Chris Fish.

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McCandless reaches Wayne's grain elevator to work to make enough money for his trip to Alaska (M6A13).

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In chapter one we meet Chris McCandless and he attempts to get a ride to his destination

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This chapter is about Chris living in BullHead  City and an insight on his time working at McDonalds.

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This chapter is focused on Chris’s life growing up and the relationship with his parents before he left home.

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About how Chris’s body was found and where it was found.

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Chris goes to Carthage to meet Westerbergs family and Chris explains his last encounter with his family.

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Explains the investigation of identifying Chris’s body, which goes into the public, and his half brother Sam finds out about it and he provides the information to Chris’s family.

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Krakauer makes the decision stating McCandless death was an accident and the rest of the chapter explains Krakauer experience on the Devil Thumbs in Alaska.

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Continues his journey west and show us his distaste for society.

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Chris’s detailed life in Bullhead City, living life like an actual American after graduation by getting a job at McDonalds and living with Bob and Jan the Slabs.

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Into the Wild is a book about a man named Chris McCandless that goes on a journey into the wilderness of many different states and tries to survive on little to nothing.(M6A17) Chris journey is described in events that occured in his life that led to him traveling across the country.(M6A12)

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Krakauer picks up the reception of his 1993 Outdoor magazine article about McCandless’s death that he began in Chapter Six.

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Chris is compared to Everett Ruess.

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Krakauer refers to the article in Outside Magazine about Chris’s death and many people had opinions on it.

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Carine, Chris’s younger sister is notified about her brothers death.

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This chapter shows the relationship that Chris built with Franz and the significance that he never expected. (M6A13)

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National Park Service ranger finds McCandless's yellow Datsun.

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Mccandless corpse is discovered by hitchhikers.

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Wayne Westerberg picks up hitchhiker and provides him a job and background information about chris life.

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Connect the pieces of how Chris’ body was identified and to explain the effect Chris had on people.(M6A23)

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This chapter opens up to davis gulch has petroglyphs left behind by the Anasazi people, as well as a carving left in 1993 by a man named Everett Ruess, whos disappeared like McCandless.

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McCandless works at a McDonald’s in Bullhead city and lives with Bob and Jan at the Slabs.

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Outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Jim Gallien picks up Alex McCandless. Gallien is afraid McCandless is unprepared for Alaska's Denali National Park. Gallien drops of McCandless at the edge of the park, on Stampede trail

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The story begins to go more in depth about Chris's life growing up, the road trips during freshman year, college, and the anger he had towards his parents.

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Mccandles dead corpse is discovered by hitchhikers.

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Chris’s family background, then by the people he meets on his journey, then the death of chris.These two chapters add background information on Jon Krakauer and shows us what really interested him about Chris and his story and how both have many similarities (M6A23)

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Gallien picking Cris up outside of Fairbanks Alaska and speaking with him about his journey then dropping off Chris on the edge of Stampede trail to never be seen again

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Reflects when Chris got a job at McDonalds and started a savings account under his own name then quit.

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Krakauer explains his difficult relationship with his own father, comparing it to Chris’ and his fathers.

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A young college graduate decides to leave society and live out in the wild. As he makes his journey he gets to meet a lot of different people and even makes important connections with some (M6A17).

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A bus on the Stampede Trail is found with an SOS note from what is later revealed as Chris McCandless; Chris's body and belonging is found on bus.

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These few chapters show the relationships Chris had with his family more. As well as the other people that tried the same adventure as Chris.

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This chapter dives into McCandless’s relationship with his family and completely explains Chris's life.

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McCandless meets up with Westerberg and he ends up staying with him for a few days.

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This chapter introduces us to Jim Gallien  and how he was the last person to see chris before he went into the wild.

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Part ones main purpose was describing hunters finding Chris’s body. That's not the main purpose of the story the main purpose was Chris’s journey, experiences, and what he had to go through.

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In this chapter Krakauer suggests that this letter could have been written 60 years later by Christopher McCandless. Like McCandless, Reuss also changed his name, at first requesting that his family call him Lan Rameau, and then changing his identity once again, to Evert Rulan.

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Part two goes into detail about Chris’s childhood; Krakauer uses his own experiences to relate himself to Chris. The effect his death had on his parents, and Carine is described(M6A23).

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The exploration of McCandless's character and how it was formed during his youth; Krakauer tells the reader that McCandless took road trips during the summer.

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This chapter unearths additional motivation for McCandless’s irrational Alaska trek to come and his ability to do so.

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Carine McCandless has been notified about Chris’s death and travels to find out what happened.

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An article is sent out on the website “Outside Magazine” that Chris was mentally ill and why he would go out into the wilderness alone with nothing, when at the same time the chapter is talking about other people.

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In this chapter, Krakauer meets with Westerberg and his family in Carthage to talk about Chris and his last few moments with the family.

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Carine McCandless has been notified about Chris’s death.

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This chapter went over Chris’s job at McDonalds and it also was about how he was viewed as stubborn.

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This chapter is mostly about Krakauer and his experience at Devils Thumb.

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Chris makes a leather belt with Franz in which he carves symbols of his journey.

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Chapter one was all about the beginning of Mcandless’ journey into the wild and how he was dropped off at Denali. (M6A17)

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The story about chris and his death had spread, people began to share their opinions.

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The purpose of chapter one was to inform us of Kakauers concerns for Alex.

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Chapters fifteen talks about the authors attempted ascent of the Devils Thumb as a young man and relates himself to Chris, and develops a motif between fathers and sons.

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This is the chapter where Chris meets Westerberg for the first time, and gives a little backstory on Westerberg (M6A12).

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This chapter is about the investigation steps to identifying Chris's body and how Westerburg helped by delivering his social, and Sam’s older brother identified him as well. (M6A23)

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Chapter two shows where Chris dies at the end of his journey in Alaska.

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The narrator meets with Wayne Westerberg to discuss McCandless’s last period of work at the grain elevator, and his feelings towards his family.

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McCandless’s adventures continue west and his car is found by park rangers.

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Chris gets a job at Mcdonalds in bullhead city settling for 2 years working and living outside the city in the desert.

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A couple smells Alex’s body and three moose hunters look inside the abandoned bus to find chris’s body and a note attached to the bus.

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Chapter 11 highlights Chris’s upbringing and damaged family life, trying to connect more of his story (M6A23).

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Part one describes Chris’s journey and events that occured in his life that led to his expedition in Alaska (M6A12). It describes much of Chris’s journey across America as well as the people he encountered (M6A13).

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This chapter traces Chris's movement around the West as he made new friends and his distaste for society.

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Chris first meets Westerberg and he offers Chris a job at his grain elevator, then Krakauer describes the letters written to Chris's parents and Carine and the presents he bought for his mother for Mother’s Day.

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This section of chapters mainly focuses on Chris's psychic and the aftermath of his death. This can be seen when Jon compares Chris to different anecdotes and stories as he tries to piece together McCandless's story from a less romanticized perspective; and also how his death affected those who were close to him.