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In the beginning, I was pretty shocked because I originally thought the author was going to build up the suspicion, but nope he revealed Chris's death in chapter 2. throughout the story my opinion on Chris didn't change because I really thought he was a real idiot to leave his family, and everything behind, and didn't even get in touch with them, but I totally respect how Chris goal was Alaska and had to go through obstacles but kept ongoing.

GOOD: I'm just amazed how Chris lived on his own for two years, he donated $24,000 to charity, and abanded his car which wasn't bad and was in good condition. Then proceed to burn his money, ditches his identity, and Chris was no more and changes his name to Alex, then his goal is to go to Alaska.

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Ever since I visited Mexico during the summer, I was just amazed at how amazing it looked and the experience was just different, and I'd like to visit other countries and see new things. Here, in California, is a normal lifestyle to me and nothing exciting unless going out. Summer was a couple of months away during the pandemic when we had online classes to quarantine for COVID, tired of being stuck in a house with no interaction and doing adventurous experiences. Mexico is at the top of my list to fly out of state and it was a perfect opportunity to take that step. Getting on an airplane isn't my favorite part but despite that, it's totally worth it just getting to see new things. Like Chris, I felt the need to escape society just to experience a different lifestyle. Going to Mexico was the first step to this future odyssey because we went to Puebla Teopantlan, and it was so different because for the first time we didn't have much WiFi and the service was so slow. So every day we did something new, like visit our relatives, go to my grandpa's farm, go out. we basically had a break on technology at first I was upset but then I really enjoyed it.

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Summary: In August 1992, Chris died in an abandoned bus, and Alaska coroners declared that he died by starvation (1) But the author of "Into the Wild" Jon Krakauer questioned Chris's death for almost 23 years. Krakauer then talks about Chris diary (3) and continues on saying how Chris blames the potato seeds for making him weak (3) then with the help of Ronaldo Hamilton, Krakauer decided to test the seeds for a neurotoxin called beta-ODAP (6), the results showed that the seeds had a lethal concentration of a compound called beta-ODAP that causes gradual weakening and paralysis (7).

analysis: It's crazy how Krakauer almost spent 23 years just to solve the death of Chris. The thing that amazes me is that Krakakuer didn't just stop on written a book about Chris but went to solve the death of Chris, and he didn't stop so Krakauer was just amazed hot a young man left everything behind just to get to live freely in the bush for 2 years.

#seeds #cases #University #Beta-ODAP

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Summary: Jon Krakauer accompanies Billie McCandless, and Walt to visit the bus (p.201) where Chris has met his death, they went not by car but they would go by helicopter (p.200) because it was a last-minute change of plans. It took them fifteen (p.201) minutes to get to the bus unlike Chris which took him four days to walk, and once they arrived at the bus they just stood there staring quietly at the bus then Walt says how he has lots of reasons for disliking (p.202) Alaska, Billie and Walt were in and out of the bus for two hours, and they were understanding (p.203) on why their son Chris stayed in the bus near with nature.

analysis: This is very heartwarming because Billie and Walt finally went to Alaska to go see the bus where Chris stayed, they found many of Chris belongs like his pants and many more, it's just nice that they finally went to see the bus.

#Peace #family #parents #bus #Alaska

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Summary: After his attempt depart the wilderness was stymied by the Teklanika's River, so Chris went back to the bus (p.188) on July 8, so then he just went back on to his routine of hunting and gathering, and he noted down in his journal how it rained for a week straight and killed thirty-five squirrels, spruce grouse, five jays, and woodpeckers but the meat he'd been killing was very lean so he wouldn't consume many calories than he was burning. He then noted "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED" and Chris was saying how happiness when we are around our loved ones. This whole Alaska adventure changed (p.189) Chris it made him lonely, Then he noted down how weak he is and is starving (p.189) in the beginning Chris was in good health but after July 30, his physical condition wasn't so good, then by August 19 he was dead and there has been conjecture about what causes Chirs death. Before heading north he took some potato (p.190) seeds and planed to plant a vegetable garden but by late July he ate the seeds then there's an entry in his journal which reads "EXTREMELY WEAK. FAULT OF POT SEED" then later on Chis wrote down his final message "I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL" and crawled into the sleeping bag his mother has sewn for him and slipped into unconsciousness (p.199), in which he died on August 18.

Analysis: In this chapter, it gives us an inside on Chirs death and his final journal blogs. This chapter is very sad because it shows how his confidence dies slowly and he died by starvation which is the most painful way to die, and the part that is so sad is when near the end of the chapter it says how Chris crawled into the sleeping bad his mother has sewn for him. he knew his death was coming so he took a final picture waving good bye smiling which is nice but very sad cause he knew he wasn't going to make out alive.

#intothewild #rip #death #poison #happiness

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Summary: Jon Krakauer and three other companions which were Roman Dial, Dan Solie, Roman, and Andrew Liske they headed to The Stampede Trail with a topographic map (p.173) and found a steel cable where Chris tried to cross the river (p.173) and once they climbed to the top of the tower they could see the bus (p.174) on the other side. Then the four of them are on the western side of the gorge and go on explaining how the journey was to the bus and once they were near the bus they just stared at it for a while and saw hundreds of delicate bones and saw a larger skeleton which was the moose he shot and it was a moose and not a caribou. Then once they headed inside the bus they explored inside the bus and found many of Chris possessions (p.178), his pants, a homemade belt, and brown rubber work boots with the name Gallien written in them, and many other of his possessions. Then the four camp out and set up a fire and talk about Chris and try to understand why they despise him. then, later on, would find out how Chris's journal entries were mostly about food (p.183) and had few abstractions about wilderness, then they finally decided not to sleep inside the bus but camp out outside.

Analysis: In this chapter, Krakauer and his companions followed the same steps as Chris but they had a map and were fully prepared to enter the bush. Chris could've taken a map but then again he probably wanted to make things challenging for himself which I can respect but a map really could've helped him maybe even save his life.

#map #bus #TeklanikaRiver #food

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Summary: In this chapter we learn on April 15, 1992, Chris departed (p.157) Carthage, then he heads to South Dakota that's when his great Alaskan odyssey (p.157) begins. Then just six days out of Carthage he arrived at Liard Rivier Hotsprings in which he stay there to take a bath then once he finished he was into the roads to catch another ride but this time he had a trouble getting because nobody would pick him up, until he met a guy named Gaylord Stuckey who was en route from Indiana to Alaska to deliver a new motor home, and took Alex gave Alex a ride to his destination (p.158) and on the way Stuckey enjoyed the ride with Alex that he even changed his mind and agreed to drive Alex to the entire destination. Once Stucky dropped him off he asked Alex to promise him to send a letter once he gets back from Alaska, Then....

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Summary: After Krakauer makes it back down he chain-smoke for as long as his supply of cigarettes held out, then he would think if he should leave for the cost once the weather broke or should stay put long enough to make another attempt (p.146) so he thought it out and the thought of returning to the boulder in defeat wasn't appealing to him, so he lit up a joint to make himself feel better but made things worse in which he ends up setting his tent on fire which vaporized one of the walls and made it thirty degrees colder inside. He then talks about his father (p.147) how he taught him to climb and got his first rope, ice ax when he was eight years old, then says how he can relate to Chris about his father wanting their son to have a shining (p.147) career, but he disappointed his father and they both had a bad relationship but once Krakauer discovered his rage was gone he went back to father but it wasn't good and his father wanted to take his own life (p.149) after that he was placed in a psychiatric hospital. Then on the Stikine ice pack, he decided to climb the devil's thumb again and he made it to the top (p.153) of the devil's thumb and takes a picture. once he was done he rides back to town and goes to a bar.

analysis: This chapter was very interesting because Krakauer was able to climb the Devils thumb, and waited for the perfect weather to be able to climb it. I felt like he should've brought a partner with him to have company but its fascinating being able to live to tell the story about it.

#devilthumb #fathers #climb #onwego

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Summary: In this chapter, Jon Krakauer talks about his experience climbing (p.134) the devil's thumbs in 1977, at the age of 23 which was a year younger than Chris, so he went into his car (p.136) and departed for Alaska, then once he arrived beneath the Stikine ice cap since it was his first time leaving colorado he was afraid (p.139) then on May 6 he set up camp (p.140) on the ice cap just northeast of the thumb and the next four days it snowed and spent most of his time recumbent in the tent and was just having second thoughts about this whole climbing. He would wait for the good weather to be able to climb and then he saw the signal to be able to climb to the thumb, so on May 11, he began skiing toward the base of the thumb, after three or four hours after leaving camp he was having big trouble climbing the devil's thumb so he had no choice but to go back down (p.144) and wait for another time.

analysis: Now this is a very scary experience, and it's amazing how this guy is alive to tell the story because needing to wait for days into cold just to climb a mountain, sounds very challenging.

#devilthumb #climbing #mountain #weather

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summary: In this chapter, we get an inside on Chris sister Carine on how she reacted to her brother (p.128) death. In the beginning, cathine goes on talking about two framed photographs (p.127) of Chris as a junior in high school and the other of Chris when he was seven, she would say how his expression is identical (p.128). Then we learn that Chris wanted to take his dog, Buckley, on his adventure, but his parents said no because he got badly injured, but now that Chris is gone his parents cant but started wondering (p.128) what would happen if Chris took Buckley with him, would everything be different (p.128). On the evening of September 17, 1992 carine was showering her rottweiler but when Chris Fish came early he was acting funny and wasn't himself and explained to her about Chris death, and she got emotional and started to scream in pain about his brother death.

analysis: I feel triable sorry for Carine I can't imagine just minding my own business then getting news of a family member who has passed. Its heartwarming how cathine the sister went to get the remains of Chris instead, which shows us how close they were.

#family #sibling #rip #dog

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Summary: Chris gifts his father an expensive telescope and got emotional (p.118) and told him how grateful he is for all the things his dad has done for him, then he went on a summer trip while on his trip, he calls home infrequently before falling out of touch entirely so he returns gaunt and bearded just before he is to begin college (p.119) at Emory in Atlanta. once he graduated they thought he was going to be happy but he wasn't so happy he was just normal, but we learn why he began to be anti-social, and his relations with his parents have deteriorated (p.124)  since his graduation from high school. Turns out Chris discovers that his father's  (p.121) previous marriage, in which his first wife Marcia gave birth to another son 2 years after Chris was born, wounded Chris terribly (p.124).

analysis: This chapter just pains me, imagine finding out your father has been living another life with another family and having other kids which are not right. What's sadder is before all of this he gifted his father a telescope and got emotional, told his father how grateful he is for everything he has done for him.

#divorce? #lies #college #highschool #relations

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Summary: in this chapter, we learn more about Walt McCandless, in the beginning of the chapter we learn that he is 56 years old and how he reacted to his son death and he would say how can his son cause his parents so much pain (p.104) and goes on how he really liked his son and the hardest part is not having his son around anymore. Then we learn that Walt McCandless has worked for NASA (p.104) in which he helped in the seasat mission, they also referred to him as brilliant (p.105). Walt grew up in Greeley Colorado he also won an academic scholarship (p.105) to colorado State University, everything was going fine he helped out on the surveyor 1 mission, but he and his wife Marcia separated, and later on, he started dating a secretary at Hughes named Wilhelmina johnson. she soon gave birth on February 12, 1968, and Walt bought Billie a Gianini guitar (p.106).

analysis: In this chapter, we get an inside about Walt McCandles and it's sad that even though he and his son didn't have that good father and son relationship he still really cared about his son, and it was really hard when he said "The hardest part, is simply not having him around anymore. I spent a lot of time with Chris perhaps more than with any of my other kids, I really liked his company even though he frustrated us so often"

#NASA #father #childern

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Summary: In this chapter, we are introduced about a young hiker's death, the story was published (p.99), and once Gallien saw the headline about a dead body being found on Stampede Trail (p.99) he thought of Alex. Gallien called the state troopers and was told how he might know who might be the dead body, then they brought the pictures (p.99) out to his job site and the guy in the pictures was Alex. Then Westerberg was told to turn on his radio by bob and learn about Alex death he also calls state troopers and give them his social security number and his name (p.101). later on sam Chris half brother (p.104) learns that the person's body was Chris, at first he didn't question if it was Chris he just felt bad but once he heard the information about the pictures he was determined that it was Chris.

Analysis: In this chapter, we get an inside of how the people Chris gets to know throughout the adventure discover his death, this chapter is a bit sad because the people Chris has known throughout the journey didn't know Chris was heading to his own death.

#The New York Times #dead body #alaska #pictures

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Summary: When Chris died in Alaska the new media (p.70) concluded that he was mentally disturbed, and many negative (p.71) letters were sent by Alaskans saying how dumb Alex is. There are also many cases of other people (p.84) going to Alaska (p.72) hoping to solve their life problems (p.72) and some would

Analysis: In this chapter, we learn that Chris isn't the only one going to Alaska for a new life, but some of these guys were not that committed to staying there unlike Chris. In my opinion, I think it's dumb to go somewhere with little supplies to hope to start a new life.
#Alaska #media #problems #SOS

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Summary: In this chapter, we go back to Carthage (p. 62), Chris tends to have avoidance (p. 61) when he feels pressured. Since Chris needed some money he headed back to his friend Wayne to work with him. We also learn about Chris's opinion about sex (p. 66) he sees it as a distraction from continuing his adventurer from Alaska.

Analysis: We learn more about Chris and he was, but I am surprised that Chris has never dated anyone and died a virgin which was shocking to me because in the book they say he was good-looking and everything but I guess he saw love as a distraction.
#charthage #virgin #back to back #work

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Summary: In this chapter we meet with man named Franz, he would write a letter (p.47) talking about Alex, Franz was eighty (p.48) years old when he met Alex. we also learn that Franz wife and only child were killed (p.50) by a drunk driver in an automobile accident (p.50). then once he met Alex he felt a strong bond with the young man and even offered to adopt (p.56) Alex.

Analysis: This chapter is pretty sad because we meet a man name Franz who lost his family, when he met Alex he felt bad for a young man being out in the streets so he helped Alex, but he later on learns that Alex wants to head to Alaska and Franz was happy to help him, but once he was going to drop him he offered to adopt Alex but Alex told him they would talk about it later. this is sad because Franz just wants a family and offered Alex to adopt him but Alex had other plans.

#adoption #letter #accident

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Summary: when Chris carmera (p. 38) was ruin he stopped stopped taking photographs then headed to Bullhead (p. 39) City is a community in the Oxymoronic. we learned that chris worked at McDonalds (p. 40) but when he started working he was homeless (p. 41) and would smell but we also learned  when Chris faces a something he wouldn't like he would just walk out (p. 41).

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Analysis: In this chapter we learn more about Chris character, and when he faces a problem while working and facing a problem in general he would just walk out.

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Summary: This chapter starts off with a description of the desert (p. 25). Then National Park Service rangers (p. 26) discover Chris abandoned (p. 26) car. there was a note left on it saying that it's abandoned and whoever can get it out can have it, and the car was a yellow Datsun (p.26) the Rangers decided to use the car to investigate people.

Analysis: Chris decided to abandon his car in the middle of the desert, he also decided to burn his social security number and his money. I understand him burning his social number and his money to start a new life but why abandon his car when it can be very useful to get somewhere.
#desert #rangers #car #soical security number

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Summary: in Carthage (p.15) We meet Wayne Westerberg, a man who knew Chris McCandless as Alex (p.18). He would go on saying what drink Alex would drink and would say how Alex had amazing stories (p.16). We also learn that Alex graduated (p.20) from Emory University, and how Chris was before going on an adventure for a new life (p.23).

Analysis: In this chapter, we learn how Alex was and how he feels about his life and the decisions he made but then towards the end, we learn about Chris, how he grew up wealthy and had everything.
#education #newlife #carthage

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In Alaska (pg. 10) three moose hunters have discovered an abandoned bus (pg. 10). Inside the bus they found a note (pg. 12) of Chris, saying that he is alone near death. then the men would enter the abandoned bus and find Chris dead (pg. 13) body. They determined that he's been dead for two weeks (pg. 13) and outscored his body.

Analysis: In this chapter, we learn that Chris died in Alaska, and three moose hunters found his dead body inside an abandoned bus. To be honest I feel like Chris is dumb for deciding to stay in Alaska but this is just the second chapter so maybe there's a reason why he decided to stay at Alaska.
#death #RIP #abandoned bus #discovered

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summary: Into the Wild is based on a true story of a young man named Alex. Now Alex starts heading out to the road (p.7) for an adventure (p.3) which would take miles (p.3) but first he gets his gear (p.5) already and got some boots (p. 7). Then he meets a guy named Gallien.

analysis: This is very interesting because Chris changes his name to Alex. We also learn that Alex wants to go to Alaska for some kind of new life.
#Alaska #adventure #supplies

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One way I connected to nature was when I went to Mexico during the summer. I took this picture during my trip at Puebla in Mexico, and me and my uncle went to the a near by river and was just walking around. It was amazing because it I wouldn't see that much green like the wilderness I'm so use to seeing buildings, stores, cars but when we were at the river it felt relaxing.