Alaska Highway

In the story, Into the Wild by Jon Krakaur, Christopher McCandless ventures out into the wilderness of Alaska unprepared which causes many to question whether Chris was crazy and/or incompetent. Many examples are seen throughout the story, but all is dependant on the perspective that it is seen by the reader. Throughout Chris’s adventures and life he displays all the attributes that make up his very unique personality. One major example of Chris’s personality is seen the quote” he was very to

form Jim Gallien, an Alaskan native. Even from the beginning, the appeal to rhetoric shows itself through the appositive as Krakauer describes “Jim Gallien, a union electrician” was going to Anchorage “240 miles beyond Denali on the George Parks Highway” (Krakauer 4). The description of Gallien by use of

Throughout the novel, Christopher McCandless’s character changed over time. Up to McCandless’s death, he wanted to live with the wild and to be away from civilization as far as possible. He changes his mind when he writes “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED” (189). His purpose of living in the wild is to live with freedom and do whatever he wishes to do. However, he realizes he was a “refuge in nature” (189) and intended to abandon his solitary life and rejoin the human community. It is assumed that

Throughout the novel, Christopher McCandless’s character changed over time. Up to McCandless’s death, he wanted to live with the wild and to be away from civilization as far as possible. He changes his mind when he writes “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED” (189). His purpose of living in the wild is to live with freedom and do whatever he wishes to do. However, he realizes he was a “refuge in nature” (189) and intended to abandon his solitary life and rejoin the human community. It is assumed that

Alaska. The word conjures images of majestic mountains, deep-blue glaciers, adventure, and quite possibly the most extreme and rugged place on Earth. My family spent one of the greatest weeks of our lives there this past summer. Homer is the last stop along the Alaskan highway system, five hours southwest of Anchorage. It isn’t much, just a couple hundred houses nestled high up on the hillside, and a sandy spit, jutting five miles into the sea. Across the bay from Homer lies Kachemak Bay State Park

Stampede Trail Chris would’ve been able to survive his adventure by either starting a big fire to alert firefighters or go some distance from the river to a cable which spanned the river to the other side where Chris could have been on the road to the highway. This could have been possible if Chris had some prior knowledge to what he was getting into and a good map, especially because Chris was in a moderately good health when he made his plan to head back to civilization. Alas it didn’t happen as Chris

some fifty miles of road was eventually built, but no bridges were ever erected over the many rivers it transected, and the route was shortly rendered impassable by thawing permafrost and seasonal floods. Yutan hauled two of the buses back to the highway. The third bus was left about halfway out the trail to serve as a backcountry shelter for hunters and trappers” (Krakauer 10). The bus is located in a place where man tried to put roads and infrastructure, but nature quickly destroyed it. This

Kate Cancio Rodgers English III 8/26/15 The Ugly Truth Being able to maintain standards and keep promises can be challenging. Many people deceive themselves by making oaths they cannot keep. In the novel, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Chris contradicts his moral goal, to be anti-materialistic, first by discarding his possessions, and then hypocritically living in a trailer, which he pretends is living in the “wild”. McCandless’ actions regarding money are inconsistent. First he burns all his

some fifty miles of road was eventually built, but no bridges were ever erected over the many rivers it transected, and the route was shortly rendered impassable by thawing permafrost and seasonal floods. Yutan hauled two of the buses back to the highway. The third bus was left about halfway out the trail to serve as a backcountry shelter for hunters and trappers.” (Krakauer 10) This quote tells us a lot about Chris’ personality. The bus is located in a place where man tried to put roads and infrastructure

For someone to have plans to survive in the harsh wilderness of the Alaskan frontier many have said that McCandless was completely un prepared as recalled in the first chapter of the book by Jim Gallien who picked up McCandless outside of Fairbanks Alaska and drove him to the stampede trail, the beginning of Chris’s journey into the wild. “He wasn’t carrying anywhere near as much food and gear as you’d be expecting a guy to be carrying for that kind of trip.” (Krakauer 4) Through the research that