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         Chapter 2.

  11. Because it refers to the wild and dark woods, the harsh winds and cold. Ominous death and nothingness

                12. So the reader knows what Chris is getting into and start making inferences

                13.  Starvation was the considered cause of McCandless' death. He only Weighed 67 pounds. Pg. 14

          Chapter 3.

14. Wayne westerberg is a man in his mid thirties that runs a grain mill and

Gave chris a ride on day and chris eventually worked for him in carthage Pg. 16

15. Rubber tramps are adventurers with cars and leather tramps are people without cars, they just walk.Pg. 17
16. The author is saying Chris left his family in D.C and found a new better family with Westerberg and other employees.
17. westerberg got arrested for illegally making a "black box" that allows yuo to get free cable. So he was out of a job Pg. 19
18. " before departing, he gave westerberg a treasured 1942 edition of  Tolstoy's War and Peace on the title page he inscribed, " transferred to Wayne Westerberg from Alexander". Pg. 19
19. Chris's had 1 younger sister and 6 had siblings from his dads first marriage. His parents tried to but him his respect like a new car or law school money no matter how many times Chris refused. Pg. 20-21

20. He becomes akward when he moves into a populated city, and he gets itchy feet staying in the same place too long. Pg. 22
21. He changed his name and started a new life for himself. Pg. 22-23

Chapter 4 and 5

22. Chris  was a one man wolf pack and he wanted to find an answer he has been looking for and he thinks going to the undisturbed desert will help him.
23. Shes a rubber tramp she sees Chris picking berries and lets him stay with her and her boyfriend for a week and they became friends and stay in touch
24. He bought a conoe on impulse and rode it down the Colorado river to the Gulf of California.

25. He speakes in 3rd person and dates the entries.________________

26. " It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found."

27. Chris was living in somewhat of a cheap way but good for knowing what his starting point was. He was a griller at McDonalds and was living in a trailer house with an old guy named Charlie.

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29. " He was smart. He'd figured out how to paddle a canoe down to Mexico, how to hop freight trains, how to score a bed at inner-city missions. He figured all of that out on his own, and I felt sure he'd figure out Alaska, too."

30. " Although Burres was concerned about McCandlees, she assumed he'd come through in one piece. " I thought he'd be fine in the end."

 Chapter 6 and 7

31.  Alex was hitching back to bajada when Ron came to give him a ride to Oh-My-god Hot Springs.

32. It is a pig farm

33. While ron was in the military, he wife and only son were killed by a drunk driver

34. Ron felt the emptiness go away when he met McCandless. Ron asked Chris to be his adopted Grandson.

35. Alex started working with Ron and making leather belts, and they kind of bonded over that.

36. "McCandless was thrileed 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."

37. To move around, don’t stay in one place. God made so many beautiful places everywhere. Explore a little

38. On december 26th when Ron picked up two other boys one told him he read in a paper than Alex had died in the tundra.

39. Waynes machine broke again and hes has been working a lot with little help.

40. The author thought that McCandless and his father were both high strung men and they had some issue  McCandless couldn’t let go off. The author did mention how McCandless and his sister were very close and all the guys stared at her because she is beautiful.
Chapter 8 and 9

41. The story compares to what Chris is doing and gives and gives a little backround. Gene also got rid of all his possessions

42. Because waterman went into the wild because he lost all his work. Chris went into the wild to find another life because he didn’t like his family.  Krakauer adds this story to say that people do things they wouldn’t normally do with a normal life. " Like Rosellini and Waterman, McCandless was a seeker and had an impractical fascination with the harsh side a nature." Pg. 85

43. " Like waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense." Pg. 85

44. Everett Ruess had somewhat of a family that moved a lot before finally settling down in southern California. After high school, he went to college for one semester and then dropped out. He moved out into the wild going to various areas of nature like the Davis Gulch. He wrote several letters to his friends and family describing how beautiful life was when it was lived in nature instead of the average life that most people decide to live. He was very adventurous and there are many theories of how he died.

45. They were similar because they both had the same thought of that there is something more than just everyday life. There is a whole world to be discovered and explored.