Chris

[[image:Alex_supertramp1.jpg width="255" height="222"]] Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer [[image:bus.jpg width="238" height="182" align="right"]]
= = =Summary= =Chris Mcandless is a stubborn, adventurous young man from a caring family, decides to hitchhike to Alaska giving away $25,000 to charity abandoned his car and most of his possesions he now set himself into the wild. Traveling through Western USA and Mexico he had made very close friends, Wayne Westerburg, Jan Burres, and Robert Franz. He always wanted want to be on the move toward his goal North to Alaska but he had stayed in Bullhead Arizona with Robert and Carthage, South Dakota with Westerburg and had traveled a little on the western coast with Jan Burres, all together he met and revisited them all in the about two years then followed his goal to Alaska. Once there he had followed what is called the Stampede trail to a abondand bus where he had stayed across from the Teklanika river for about 110 days till his death. 19 days later two moose hunters had found his decomposing body in his sleeping bag.= = = =Theme= =I think that the theme in the book Into the Wild is to live your life to the fullest as Chris had done as every summer had left home and traveled across the country in search for an adventure. In a letter to Franz Mcandless writes "Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon." I know that what Mcandless is trying to say is to move around the world don't stay in one spot which could be anothere theme for this book.= = = =Opinions= =The book was awfully dull but some parts were interesting, and i really wanted to finish the book as quickly as possible remembering all the happened to this courageous, stubborn young man. I like how no matter what Chris never wanted any really nice things and on his trip everyone he had met had offered him something that could have kept him alive and had refused to take them. Lots thought he was very smart and he was but he made a lot of stupid choices. People in Alaska had said "Well someone as stupid as him wouldn't have come close to surviving." everyone he knew had loved and adored, and i always wonderd what would happen if he was still alive. Wouldn't even have been noticed or could he have change the world.= = = =[|Outside]= =  = =[|Death of an Innocent]   = =  = = = = = = = = = = = = =