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McCandless simply did something that went against the system. He lived a different life and that's what annoys people. Yes, he was vastly under-prepared by failing to take the essential items, but he was mentally strong and determined. You have to applaud him for lasting nearly 4 months without the proper gear. That's incredible. He did something that scares a lot of people like he shirked the security and comfort we find in a 9-5 daily grind paying bills and living at the mercy of corporations. I do some what admire him. He is portrayed as a lunatic because he went against the grain of what society wants us to do. However, I'm a realist. In order to attempt and uphold this lifestyle, you need experience, the right equipment. However, he had the right attitude! And that's the inspiration for me. But I also feel that he was really selfish, there was people that actually care about him and loved him but he didn't really care at all, and that's what upsets me the most and I feel that most of the people that read the book feel like this too. But he definitely   inspired me to not challenge raw nature without the knowledge and training even though. He DID have knowledge and training. He also thought the seeds were edible because of a book he read with them in it. The book was old, inaccurate too and just not up to date. He had the right idea, but was sadly failed by the knowledge of that time and he also didn't map out the area enough, if he had, he would have known there was a ranger center nearby.

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One of the most things I like to do is travel. I really enjoy when I travel with my family to different destinations, I have planned travel outside the America continent, I don't really travel a lot because it requires a lot of money and for my age if really hard to have that amount of money. I will love to travel to Philippines because it's a beautiful land their beaches look so clear which I really love when the water is clear it look cleaner and safer. Philippines is an island country of Southeast Asia which means it's out of America and that's what makes it interesting to try a different culture, different food, it'll be amazing to go there. And that right there is my Future Odyssey.

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Summary: Years later a scientist decided to go for the search of what caused McCandless starvation, what causes McCandless starvation was some potato seeds(4), what causes potato seeds to be toxic was the ice covering the seeds. Christopher McCandless just ate the seeds in the wrong season other than that he would probably be okay. It took the scientist about 21 years to find out the cause of his death, the results showed that the seeds had a lethal concentration of a compound called beta-ODAP(7) that has caused gradual weakening and paralysis in famine victims relying on a certain pea(7). Plenty of legumes stores this toxin in their seeds to ward (10) off predators. The compound is a similar essential amino acid, arginine, and it tricks the body's cells into thinking it's good for them and then it wreaks havoc, says Krakauer. It screws up your ability to metabolize, so you essentially starve. It short-circuits your metabolism(10).

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Summary: 10 months after Sam told Walt and Billie, Krakauer and they are flying out to the bus by helicopter. Walt was in Fairbanks working on a NASA contract and was edgy about visiting the bus. Billie came two days earlier and was calm about it. She wanted to go overland but at the last minute, they decided to take a helicopter due to the river’s height. After 15 minutes of flight which took Chris 4 days to walk, the helicopter makes it to the bus. The helicopter lands and drops them off and takes off again. Billie says how much the area looks like where she grew up, and that Chris must have loved it there. Walt is grumpy and just says that he has lots of reasons to dislike Alaska, but he admits it’s beautiful there. For thirty minutes they walk around the bus. Billie enters the bus and sits on the mattress. She is looking at his toothbrush, his boots, and she sees a spoon. She recognizes it as one of their spoons from their Annandale house. She finds some of his pants and smells them, she says they still smell like him and says “He must have been very brave and very strong, in the end, not to do himself in.”

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Summary: When McCandless returned to the bus, hunting game was super plentiful. He went back to hunting and gathering, and read several books. It rained for a week straight. He hunted 35 squirrels, 4 geese, five jays, woodpeckers, and two frogs. He also ate tons of plants. Unfortunately, the meat he was eating was lean, and he was burning way more calories than he was eating. In late July, he made a mistake that really hurt him. He had just finished reading Dr. Zhivago, and wrote a bunch of notes. In one section, it reads: "unshared happiness is not happiness” McCandless wrote next to it “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.” Dr. Zhivago was the last book he read. Two days after he finished the book, on July 30, his journal reads: “EXTREMELY WEAK, FAULT OF POT. SEED. MUCH TROUBLE TO STAND UP. STARVING GREAT JEOPARDY.” By August 19, he was dead. Wayne Westerberg remembered McCandless buying potatoe seed to plant a garden. One theory is that he never planted the garden and wound up eating the seeds once he was hungry. However, he would have had to eat pounds of seeds in a short time period to have become sick off of them. The size of his backpack that Gallien saw was no way large enough to carry enough seeds to get poisoned over. What is more likely, however, was that, in the book he got at the university, it talks about the wild potatoe that grows in the area. This potatoe is edible in spring and summer. As the weather warmed, he dug up and ate a lot of this potatoe and by July he was even eating the seeds from the seed pod. The flowers of the potatoe plant look a lot like the flowers of the sweet pea plant. The only difference is the veins in the leaves. The sweet pea plant, according to natives, is toxic. He dead.

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Summary: A year and a week after McCandless decided to return to the bus, Krakauer is standing at the Teklanika River.  Unlike McCandless, Krakauer has a map which shows there’s a USGS gauging station a half mile south. At the stampede trail, you can’t see the station. Krakauer is with three others and they make their way through the forest to the station. There are two towers on each side, and a cable connecting. On the cable, there is a basket that surveyors would sit in and pull themselves across the river. Unfortunately, the basket is on the other side, kept hidden so that people wouldn’t cross and hunt on the other side of the river. Little did McCandless know that a half mile downstream there was a basket that could have taken him to safety. McCandless wanted to wander uncharted territory, but even in Alaska, there are no more unknowns. So McCandless’ version of that was to not have a proper map. Krakauer wants to get to the bus so that he can better understand why, even though it was better to go back to the bus, did McCandless stay there so long into August when the waters would have lowered.
Krakauer gets across the wire using climbing gear, then gets the basket and ferries the other three across. They then make their way back to the Stampede trail. The trail is very overgrown because no one ever travels it on that side of the river, the there are beaver ponds everywhere. There are also bear tracks and on each side of the trail 15 foot alders. Krakauer says that he’s been to Alaska twenty times for every reason, but this time he’s glad he isn’t alone.

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Summary: When he made it back down the mountain, he stayed in his tent for three days because of the weather. He was deciding on whether or not to stay and try the mountain again, or just head back to the coast. His incident scared him though, and he didn’t want to try the face again. After chain smoking to kill the boredom, he decided to open what he brought for a victory when he submitted. It was a can of marijuana. He started smoking it in the tent, which in turn made him hungry. He started making oatmeal, lit the stove to melt the snow and then smelt something burning. He turned around to see that the match he used for the stove caught his tent on fire. He put the fire out, but now his tent had a hole. To make things worse, he burned his hand when trying to put out the flames. The tent wasn’t his, he borrowed it from his father. Krakauer’s father had quite a temper and lots of expectations for his son. He wanted him to be a doctor or at least a lawyer. He also taught Krakauer how to climb. When Krakauer was a teen, he started to rebel. Instead of being a doctor, he became a carpenter. Their relationship fell apart when Krakauer learned some family secrets and he wasn’t able to forgive his father for some time.

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In McCandless’ last postcard to Westerberg, he wrote “if this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild.” Because of this, many people think that he was suicidal and never attended to come out. Krakauer thinks that his death was unplanned, based on how McCandless was with others before his adventure and from Krakauer’s own personal experience. Krakauer admits to growing up moody and having father issues. Krakauer spent most of his youth climbing various mountains in Alaska and Canada. In 1977, he decided to climb a peak known as the Devil’s Thumb. He was 23 and no one had ever climbed it’s north wall. He was a carpenter, and one day told his boss he was quitting and that same day he left for Alaska. The Devils’ Thumb is outside a village called Petersburg on the Alaska Canada border. You can only get there by boat or plane. He couldn’t afford a plane, so he abandoned his car and hitched a ride on a salmon boat. One night as he was steering the boat, he saw a mule deer in the middle of the Fitz High Sound, just swimming in the middle of the night. When he got to Petersburg, he didn’t know what to do so he stayed at the library, and a woman started talking to him and let him stay the night.

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Carine has two pictures of McCandless, one where he is 7 and another when he is in junior high. In both pictures, he has the same expression. Buckley is still alive at 13 Chris wanted to take him on his trip after college, but Buckley was recently hit by a car and was recovering. Carine says that, if Buckley was with him, it might have been different. Though Chris was reckless with his own life, he would never put Buckley in danger. Carine is like 5’8”, about the same as Chris, and they look so much alike that people think they were twins. She has the same energy as Chris. She owns an auto repair service with her husband and is doing really well financially. She likes to be around people. Chris would make fun of her for working so much. 10 months after Chris was discovered, Carine still can’t get through a day without crying. She says that the hardest part is the 20-minute drive to work. In September 1992, her husband Chris Fish came home early from their business. He came home, went inside, and then started helping her wash the dog, which was really weird. When they came inside, Fish sat on the couch in the dark with his head down. Carine thought he just had a rough day and the guys at work were being tough, but when he looked up his eyes were red. Sam called him earlier that day. He then told Carine that her brother had been found dead.

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Summary: When McCandless graduated high school in 1986, he gave Walt a telescope for his birthday. That night he told his dad how even though they had problems, he really respected him and knew how much he gave to the family. He left Virginia and went all the way to the Pacific. He didn’t return until two days before school started in Atlanta, and he lost 30 pounds. He had gotten stuck in the Mojave and almost became dehydrated. When he came back, he also picked up a 30-.06 rifle and a machete, which he took to college. He did great in college and became a writer at the school paper.  After some time, he started becoming distant from his parents. When he traveled to California, he found out that when Walt divorced his first wife Marcia for Billie, he wound up keeping two separate families for a while, even having a son with his ex-wife. It’s only when they found out that he and Billie moved to the east coast. McCandless saw this as his childhood is a lie.

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Summary: When Chris was 6, Walt got a job at NASA and they moved to Virginia. 4 years later he quit and started his own company with Billie. It was a rocky start and money was tight. Walt and Billie would work all hours of the day and when they fought they’d always bring up divorce.
The family also went on lots of cross-country trips. One time they went to Iron Mountain in Michigan, where Billie’s family was from. Her dad, Loren, didn’t really fit in. He was a truck driver, woodsman, and poet. He would raise wild animals as his own. Also, because he was never really successful, he would have to support his family by hunting, but he would cry over every deer he shot. Chris and Loren became very close. Walt took Chris on his first backpacking trip at 8 and did that climb every year thereafter. A little later, Walt took all of his boys from both marriages to climb Longs Peak. At 13,000 feet, Walt couldn’t make the top, but Chris kept wanting to go on at 12. Chris was also really good academically. He usually scored A’s. One time he had an F, both Chris and Carine were also musical. Chris played piano, guitar, and French Horn, but quit once his sister got the first chair in horn. He was very protective of Carine and would always hold her hand in the street. When he was 12, they bought Carine a dog named Buckley, but soon after Chris and Buckley were always together and Chris would take him on runs. With sports, he had a lot of talent but didn’t focus on the finer things. He wound up becoming a major cross country runner and even captain of the high school team. He would make up grueling training sessions for the cross country members. He would make them run to unknown areas then find a familiar road and race back to school.

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Summary: On September 10, three days before the New York Times printed an article about the unknown hiker found in Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News published an article and Jim Gallien called in saying he thinks he gave that kid a ride. The authorities at first didn’t believe him, but he mentioned several pieces of gear that McCandless had that the newspaper didn’t mention. Also, Gallien’s name was in a journal entry. The troopers brought some of the developed film  to Gallien’s work and Gallien recognized him.
The officers focused their efforts in identifying the body to South Dakota after Gallien told them that’s where he said he was from. On September, Wayne Westerberg was driving his crew home to Carthage. Over the radio someone called Westerberg and told him to turn on the radio. That the person they’re talking about sounded like Alex. Westerberg called Alaska, and again the troopers didn’t believe him. He told them McCandless worked for him and he has his social security number.

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Summary: Ruess was born in Oakland, California in 1914. His father worked in the prison system and his mother published a journal. The family moved all over the country and finally stayed in southern California when he was 14. During high school at Hollywood High, he took a trip through Yosemite and Big Sur and found his way to the photographer Edward Watson, who he stayed with for about two months in his studio learning different things. He went back to Hollywood High and graduated high school, only to leave again and travel through Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. He tried UCLA but dropped out, stayed some time with his parents in San Fransisco
He would go days without food and travelled through much of the American southwest.

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As winter got worse, and his supplies disappeared, McCandless still thought somebody would come but no one ever did. He was too far into the wild. As the winter came, he developed frost bite in his hands, feet, and nose. He wrote over a hundred pages in his diary. He also realized he was too weak to walk to the nearest fort. In late November, he took is .30-.30 and shot himself in the head after writing a goodbye in his diary. Troopers found his body two months later frozen.

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Summary: In Carthage, Krakauer interviewed Westerberg days after McCandless’s body was discovered. McCandless appeared one day in March saying he was ready for work. He was going to be in Fairbanks by the end of April, but he’d be back for the fall harvest. For those four weeks he was back he did every job thrown at him. However, when Westerberg tried to give McCandless a try at the combine he wasn’t good with machines.

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Summary: McCandless camped under a hanging tarp outside of the main town near Salton City. One day in January, he was hitchhiking back to his spot, when Ron Franz picked him up. McCandless told him he was camped outside of this place called Oh My God Hot Springs. Franz told him that he lived there six years and never heard of it. The encampment of Oh My God Hot Springs was about 200 people who were all sorts of fringe. Some even walked around completely naked.

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Summary: After McCandless left Vegas with his camera broken he also stopped keeping his journal until he went to Alaska. From a letter he sent to Jan, he spent two months on the Oregon coast. By October, he was in Bull head City in Arizona. He ended up falling in love with the desert town and spent two whole months, more than any other place since he left Atlanta. He had a job at the McDonald’s and commuted to work on a bicycle. When he applied for the job, he used his real name, Chris McCandless, and his real social security number.

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Summary: During Chapter 4 Christopher McCandless arrives in an area of Lake mead Detrital Wash where his car got caught in a flash flood so he had to abandon the car and right there he decided to bury the rifle he had with him and also burned all the money and any documents he had with him.

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Summary: During chapter 3 Christopher McCandles decided to change his life completely, he wanted to excitement, danger, and the chance to sacrifice himself for his own love he wanted to find who he really was so he decided to go in a trip to Carthage, South Dakota which it was a small town with about 274 population he took his car and drove miles and miles trough dessert until he got there. He decided to take this trip right after he graduated his last year of his career right after that no body heard from him anymore not even his own family.

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Summary: On April 15, 1992, McCandless started his journey to Alaska from Carthage. He was able to hitchhike to Laird River Hot springs, but at that point it was hard to get a ride. He met a man named Gaylord Stuckey. Stuckey was delivering an RV to Fairbanks, right where McCandless was going. Stuckey however wasn’t allowed to give hitchhikers a ride. After talking to McCandless, he decided to take him halfway, then wound up taking him all the way to Fairbanks. It was a three day drive. They wound up talking a lot. Stuckey found out that McCandless had issues with his family, that his dad was a bigot, and that McCandless was planning on staying out in the wild for the summer. They got to Fairbanks on April 25. Stuckey bought McCandless a bag of rice. McCandless wanted to get books on the local plants, but Stuckey told him he’s still too early, the snow was still a foot or two on the ground. Stuckey dropped McCandless off at the university at 5:30 PM. When he left, Stuckey told him, “Alex, I’ve driven you a thousand miles. I’ve fed you and I’ve fed for three straight days. The least you can do is write me a letter when you get back from Alaska.” McCandless promised he would.

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During chapter two in the book, it tells us how McCandless died and where his body was found the scientist said that he dies from starvation and that is one of the worst ways to die because it is very painful and slow. His body was located in a bus that was in the middle of nowhere where he used that bus to stay there he also made an S.O.S sign for someone to see it and help him out while he was slowly dying. He was found by some troopers that were on a helicopter they saw the S.O.S sign and decided to go check it out and that's where they found Christopher McCandless's body without an identification.

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Summary: Into the Wild is based on a true story of a young man from a well-to-do family his name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. During this chapter, we got to know all the gear McCandless had when he started his way to Alaska, he had a .22 caliber on him which he could use to hunt and this would allow him to survive more in the wild and to defend himself of anything. The guy who took the picture warned McCandles about going by himself to the wild and he also thought that McCandles was joking about what he was saying and he also thought that whenever McCandles would get hungry he needs to go back to the highway to get some food but McCandles took it seriously and he started camping in a bush.

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During the summer I went to Guerrero to visit some of its beaches in which one of them I almost drowned and it was really scary. I didn't knew how to swim but I was trying to not to die so I ended up swimming I don't know how but I survive.