Into The Wild Summary

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rakauer starts Into the Wild by informing the readers that McCandless is dead, which takes away from the reader feeling intrigued to read on. Krakauer convinces the readers to read on by not including information about McCandless’s death, interests the readers to keep reading. Krakauer includes people McCandless met and what they had done for him also at the beginning. Krakauer includes an interview with Jim Gallien, a man who drove McCandless to the end of the Denali National Park where he would then leave McCandless to start his journey. McCandless had no snowshoes, a compass, an axe, or some bug repellant with him, Gallien wanted to make sure McCandless was well prepared and even offered to buy him decent gear, but McCandless declined and …show more content…
McCandless’s journal entries include statements such as, “MOOSE!” on June 6th when he shot a moose instead of squirrels, and different types of birds which he had been eating since he got to the bus (Krakauer 166). McCandless’s last writing reads, “‘I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all,”’ which he wrote on the back of a poem by Robinson Jeffers, "Wise Men in Their Bad Hours" (Krakauer 199). In the ending Krakauer includes some evidence to what may have killed Chris McCandless.Since Krakauer has two versions of the same book with different findings on what allegedly killed McCandless, no one actually knows what killed him. In Krakauer's 1997 version of Into the Wild, it is said to have been mold on the potato seeds or a toxic amino acid in the potato seeds that weaken McCandless. Krakauer supports this by hypothesizing that “pot seeds” in McCandless’s journal entry on July 30th meant potato seeds, and that because McCandless had eaten so many, it weakened his extremely. Because the world is clueless to McCandless’s health state up until July 30th, it is concluded that he was healthy for most of that time. Krakauer then goes on to include chapters enclosing events that went on months after McCandless’s death. Krakauer includes McCandless’s parents, Walt and Billie McCandless, going to visit bus 142. When Billie and Walt McCandless visit the bus, it takes them a few minutes to say anything. Billie McCandless goes on to explain how beautiful it is, and how it reminds her of where she grew up, and how Chris McCandless must have loved it, Walt McCandless agrees silently. They had intended to visit the bus by going over the land as Chris McCandless had done, but the river that made it impossible for Chris McCandless himself to get out of the wilderness and on his was home, was impassible of his parents time of travel. Walt and
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