Into The Wild Precis
Into the Wild Character Analysis
Christopher McCandless- The subject of Into the Wild. Graduates from Emory University with honors in 1990, and afterwards gives all of his savings to charity, starts going by the name of "Alex," abandons almost all of his possessions, and spends two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. He then hitchhikes to Alaska, where he walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992. He is found dead four months later.
Jim Gallien- A union electrician, hunter, and woodsman who picks up “Alex” four miles outside of Fairbanks and drives him to Denali. He is the last person to see McCandless alive. “Gallien, a union electrician, was on his way to Anchorage, 240 miles beyond Denali on the George Parks Highway; he told Alex he’d drop him off wherever he wanted.” (Krakauer 4)
Walt McCandless- Chris’s father. A successful aerospace engineer and the father of eight children, from two marriages. He is fifty-six at the time of Chris’s death. He is taciturn, passionate and stubborn, much like his son, and also brilliant, with a hot temper. “In 1978, Walt went into business for himself, launching a small but eventually prosperous consulting firm, User Systems, Incorporated.” (Krakauer 20)
Wayne Westerberg- Owner of a grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota, who meets McCandless when he picks him up hitchhiking in 1990. He gives McCandless jobs multiple times, and becomes close to him. “If McCandless
Christopher McCandless- The subject of Into the Wild. Graduates from Emory University with honors in 1990, and afterwards gives all of his savings to charity, starts going by the name of "Alex," abandons almost all of his possessions, and spends two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. He then hitchhikes to Alaska, where he walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992. He is found dead four months later.
Jim Gallien- A union electrician, hunter, and woodsman who picks up “Alex” four miles outside of Fairbanks and drives him to Denali. He is the last person to see McCandless alive. “Gallien, a union electrician, was on his way to Anchorage, 240 miles beyond Denali on the George Parks Highway; he told Alex he’d drop him off wherever he wanted.” (Krakauer 4)
Walt McCandless- Chris’s father. A successful aerospace engineer and the father of eight children, from two marriages. He is fifty-six at the time of Chris’s death. He is taciturn, passionate and stubborn, much like his son, and also brilliant, with a hot temper. “In 1978, Walt went into business for himself, launching a small but eventually prosperous consulting firm, User Systems, Incorporated.” (Krakauer 20)
Wayne Westerberg- Owner of a grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota, who meets McCandless when he picks him up hitchhiking in 1990. He gives McCandless jobs multiple times, and becomes close to him. “If McCandless