Into The Wild & Chris McCandless: Visionary, Prophet, Madman, Idiot, Luckless Teenage Adventurer? by Emily Wilkinson https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9 Post your favorite quotation about McCandless that supports your ideas about him and the kind of person you believe he was. en-us 2020-08-21 23:02:34 UTC 2020-09-10 05:29:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f98c.png emilysmith231 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713124067 "He was the hardest worker I've ever seen. Didn't matter what it was, he'd do it." (18)]]> 2020-09-01 19:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713124067 saragutierrez23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713348059 "Didn't like to be around too many people though temperamental" pg 42 ]]> 2020-09-01 21:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713348059 "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well—relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it. Pg. 55 sophiabruny23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713368514 2020-09-01 22:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713368514 shannoncavanaugh23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713434863 "Chris was fearless even when he was little," he says after a long pause. "He didn't think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the ledge." pg 109]]> 2020-09-01 23:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713434863 “Chris just didn't like being told what to do."（page 115) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713513486 2020-09-02 00:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713513486 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713913820 " Only one word for the guy: incompetent." (pg. 177)]]> 2020-09-02 04:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713913820 "Only one word for the guy: incompetent." (pg.177) mariemilton23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713917722 2020-09-02 04:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/713917722 gabriellarogers23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715457392 "Chris just didn't like being told what to do." (115)]]> 2020-09-02 16:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715457392 "... He was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny." (pg. 23) avazhang23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715645976 2020-09-02 17:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715645976 addisonnydam23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715649200 2020-09-02 17:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715649200 estellabakke23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715653501 2020-09-02 17:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715653501 cassandrahuston23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715783635 "Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road." (pg. 179)]]> 2020-09-02 18:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715783635 "He wanted to prove to himself that he could make his own, without anybody else’s help." (159) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715802233 2020-09-02 18:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715802233 "He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through the college years." (p.g.120) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715875368 -Kirthana]]> 2020-09-02 18:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/715875368 "He was what you’d call extremely ethical.” (18) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716017268 2020-09-02 19:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716017268 "It was a different story with Alex. He was the hardest worker I've ever seen. Didn't matter what it was, he'd do it hard physical labor, .... jobs where you'd get so damn dirty you couldn't even tell what you looked like at the end of the day." (p.g. 18) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716017460 2020-09-02 19:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716017460 "He was what you’d call extremely ethical.” (18) elliekao23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716020904 2020-09-02 19:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716020904 "Chris was born into the wrong century. He was looking for more adventures and freedom than today's society gives people''(Pg.174). -lucia https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716028383 2020-09-02 19:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716028383 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716246856 "He read a lot. Used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him in trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often." (18)]]> 2020-09-02 20:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716246856 "He read a lot. Used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him in trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often." (18) sophiaheredia23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716252805 2020-09-02 20:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716252805 “Two years he walks the Earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom.”(pg.179) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716273987 2020-09-02 20:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716273987 "Chris was fearless even when he was little." (109) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716300251 2020-09-02 21:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716300251 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716300433 “He was determined. Real gung ho. The word comes to mind is excited. He couldn’t wait to head out there and get started.” Page 6. (Claire Robinson)]]> 2020-09-02 21:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716300433 “He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.” https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716318590 2020-09-02 21:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716318590 clairerobinson23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716367271 2020-09-02 21:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716367271 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716405759 “He could be alone without being lonely” Page (107)]]> 2020-09-02 22:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716405759 “Nor was McCandless endowed with a surfeit of common sense.” Page (62) skyeprice23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716411560 2020-09-02 22:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716411560 “He was very to himself. He wasn’t antisocial-he always had friends, and everybody liked him-but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn’t seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.”(pg.107) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716426508 2020-09-02 22:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716426508 “He was very to himself. He wasn’t antisocial-he always had friends, and everybody liked him-but he could go off and entertain himself for hours. He didn’t seem to need toys or friends. He could be alone without being lonely.”(pg.107) allysonbarragan23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716427080 2020-09-02 22:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716427080 josie perkins https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716442880 "McCandless's personality was puzzling in its complexity. He was intensely private but could be convivial and gregarious in the extreme." (115) ]]> 2020-09-02 22:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716442880 josephineperkins23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716446320 "McCandless's personality was puzzling in its complexity. He was intensely private but could be convivial and gregarious in the extreme." (115)


]]> 2020-09-02 22:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716446320 miamurillo23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716485816 2020-09-02 23:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716485816 Cameron Bender https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716644244 “He was determined. Real gung ho. The word comes to mind is excited. He couldn’t wait to head out there and get started.” (page 6)

]]> 2020-09-03 01:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716644244 Cameron Bender https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716646414 "Chris was fearless even when he was little," he says after a long pause. "He didn't think the odds applied to him. We were always trying to pull him back from the ledge." (page 109)]]> 2020-09-03 01:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716646414 Cameron Bender https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716648314 "He was the hardest worker I've ever seen. Didn't matter what it was, he'd do it." (page 18)]]> 2020-09-03 01:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/716648314 nataliagarcia23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/717008975 "McCandless was thrilled to be on his way north, and he was relieved as well-relieved that he had again evaded the impending threat of human  intimacy, of friendship, and all the messy emotional baggage that comes with it. (pg.55)"

]]> 2020-09-03 04:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/717008975 meghangarrity23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719034316 2020-09-03 18:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719034316 erikacaballero23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719304868 "Chris was good at almost everything he tried, which made him super overconfident. If you attempted to talk him out of something, he wouldn't argue. He'd just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted." (pg. 118-119)]]> 2020-09-03 19:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719304868 Catherine O'Callaghan https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719619590 "He was the hardest worker I’ve ever seen. Didn’t matter what it was, he’d do it: hard physical labor, mucking rotten grain and dead rats out of the bottom of the hole—jobs where you’d get so damn dirty you couldn’t even tell what you looked like at the end of the day. And he never quit in the middle of something. If he started a job, he’d finish it. It was almost like a moral thing for him. He was what you’d call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself. (18) "]]> 2020-09-03 22:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719619590 "It was like he was off in his own universe... When he talked, he was always going on about trees and nature and weird stuff like that. We all thought he was missing a few screws" (40) https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719691828 2020-09-03 23:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/719691828 marieplacido23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/720089769 "Only one word
for the guy: incompetent.” page 177]]> 2020-09-04 03:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/720089769 “I thought he was too nice a kid to be living by that hot springs with those nudists and drunks and dope smokers.” https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/720375837 2020-09-04 07:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/720375837 "And he wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast. McCandless was something else- although precisely what is hard to say." (Page 85) karolynbarsamian23 https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/721453768 2020-09-04 16:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ewilkinson23/sf5sf08nkdqz32y9/wish/721453768