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    Was the media attention he received undeserving or unnecessary when the turned up of McCandless in Alaska the media report said “many people concluded that the boy must have been mentally disturbed” (70). Basically what they are saying that McCandless was mentally ill because the people within that area knew the dangers of going out there unprepared like he was and no one would dare to go. However‚ no one understands the decision or knowing his reason for wanting to go out to Alaska like that. All

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    characters Chris McCandless‚ Gene Rosellini and Everett Ruess are all characters with similarities and differences. Each character has a different family background and personality. Every character also had a different experience in the wilderness and way they documented it. Lastly‚ McCandless‚ Rosellini‚ and Ruess all had different ways they died. No individual had the same family background and early experiences in their lives. Each individual also had their own personalities. Chris McCandless was a young

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    reason why McCandless’ story haunted him. He was haunted by McCandless’ story because of the boy’s starvation and by vague‚ unsettling parallels between events in McCandless’ life and those in his own. He specifically says‚ “I was hunted by the particulars of the boy’s starvation and by vague‚ unsettling parallels between events in his life and those in my own.” (Krakauer). The novel specifically mentions that the boy’s starvation and vague‚ unsettling parallels between events in McCandless’ life and

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    path Chris McCandless took leading to his death. Chris McCandless was a person who disappeared from the world. Based on information from different people he met‚ Chris traveled around for a mere 2 ½ years (Krakauer author’s note). He never stayed in one area for long‚ he traveled all around North America‚ but he did‚ however‚ stay put in Alaska‚ where he found shelter in Bus 142 (Krakauer 13). He stayed here for four months‚ where he later died. It is argued over whether Chris McCandless is a true

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    viewpoint that he is the only one who decides on his doings‚ not the government. Emerson also has a writing called Self-Reliance that discusses his conviction regarding the government. Krakauer narrates that McCandless does not follow the law‚ but follows the writing of Thoreau. “McCandless could endeavor to explain that he answered to statues of a higher order—that as a latter-essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state

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    Krakauer and Everett Ruess by W.L. Rusho describes strong interesting colorful experience of two different person’s journey they went on. From the book Into the Wild the author stated the journey of Christopher McCandless. Into the Wild book does not starts with the birth of Christopher McCandless nor with the beginning of the journey that the book will indicate‚ but with an essential point late in Christopher McCandless’s journey through the American West and his final meeting with other person before

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    that both Michael Oher and Christopher McCandless met on their journeys made dramatic changes on both Michael and Christopher. The main unexpected journey that Michael O’her had was that he had encountered success despite of his background. The main unexpected journey that Christopher McCandless had was starvation. In Sean Peen’s 2007 film Into the Wild he elaborated the unexpected encounter that Christopher McCandless had. The dream that Christopher McCandless had was to live without money because

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    uses text and design features to make it appeal to the reader. The maps help the readers in tracing the young man’s odyssey. The photo on the first page instantly catches the reader’s attention and imagination. While the emotional story about the McCandless parent’s visit to the site on the book’s epilogue gives a satisfying ending to the readers. The maps are useful. The two page map that is also the first map shown in the book has the illustration of the route that Chris took to get from Atlanta

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    about Chris McCandless by first publishing an article on the boy’s death in Outside Magazine in January of 1993. But this is not where he wanted to stop. Krakauer was fascinated by McCandless’s life and experiences‚ mostly because he could relate to him on a personal level. Krakauer began to further investigate the “convoluted path that led to his death‚” wrapping it all together into the novel about the boy‚ Into The Wild. This book was written to describe the life of Chris McCandless and illustrate

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    the end of Chapter 2‚ Krakauer says of McCandless‚ Driving west out of Atlanta‚ 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‚ he even adopted a new name. No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Supertramp‚ master of his own destiny. (23) These are some pretty strong assertions about what McCandless was trying to do. Do you believe them at

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