“The dessert is… spiritually cleansing, stripped of comfort.” (Pg 25.)

Krakauer uses imaginary to show how McCandless saw the wild as a place for personal growth and freedom.

-“McCandless had been infatuated with London since childhood. Landon’s fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless passions. Mesmerized by London’s turgid portrayal of life in Alaska and the Yukon, McCandless read and reread “The Call of the Wild…” pg.44

- This allusions show how McCandless got influenced in this odyssey and influenced the way he saw the world. It shows how London motivated and inspired what McCandless had in mind when he thought and dreamed of this odyssey.

2, “and gave his employer his real social security number. It was an uncharacteristic break from his cover that might easily have alerted his parents to his whereabouts”(pg 40)

3, this is a fact on how he could have been found by his parents because he used his real social security number instead of a fake even thought he “changed his name”

2. On (page 40) Chris would comply with the rules, but son as his shift was over, bang! — the first thing he’d do is peel those socks off. I mean very first thing. Kind of like a

   statement, to let us know we didn’t own him.

3. diction, he uses the words first thing to emphasize that he would waste time making him self feel back free wearing no socks

2.”he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris mccandless he was now Alexander supertramp, master of his own destiny.” Page 23.

3. He done this because he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. To symbolize the complete severance from his previous life, so he adopted a new name.

Analysis:
This imagery helps readers visualize the rough, unconventional setting McCandless chooses, emphasizing his desire to live simply and apart from mainstream society.