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Missing
"By the beginning of August 1990,Chris's parents had heard nothing from there son since they'd received his grades in the mail' so they decided to drive down to Atlanta for a visit. When they arrived at his apartment, it was empty and a FOR RENT sign was taped to the window." Page 22 Paragraph 2
Explanation: The relationship Chris McCandless had with his parents wasn't very good. -
Letter
"McCandless was thrilled to hear from Jan."I am so glad to find you both alive and sound," he exclaimed in a letter dated December 9,1991." Page 42 Paragraph 5
Explanation: Chris was very happy to get to hear from Jan and die for him to see her. -
Enemies
"Nobody, however, was affected more powerfully by his or her brief contact with the boy than Ronald Franz, who was eighty years old when their paths intersected in January 1992."Page 48 Paragraph 5
Explanation:The sentence shows you that even Chris McCandless had enemies an that everyone is no innocent. -
Lost
¨Westerberg had heard nothing from the friend he knew as Alex McCandless since receiving the postcard from Fairbanks the previous spring."Page 100 Paragraph 2
Explanation: This is the first time Westerberg ever heard from his friend in awhile so Westerberg was happy hearing from Alex once again until Chris McCandless (Alex Super tramp) death. -
Enemies that became friends
On February 19, McCandless called Franz, collect, to wish him a happy eighty-first birthday; McCandless remembered the date because his own birthday had been seven days earlier: he had turned twenty-four on February 12." -
Beginning
"In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Page (Authors note) 1 paragraph 1
Explanation: From ti sentence alone Chris knew there was no walking back. -
Pointless death
"The article about McCandless in Outside generated a large volume of mail, and not a few of the letters heaped opprobrium on McCandless--and n me, as well, the author of the story, for glorifying what some thought was a foolish, pointless death."Page 71 Paragraph 1
Explanation: I find this sentence very important because everybody thought that Chris McCandless was stupid because he came with barley nothing to live of the Alaskan wildlife and that was why it was a pointless death -
Friend
"Gallien briefly considered stopping and telling the authorities about Alex, then thought better of it."I figure he'd be OK," he explains. "I thought he'd probably get hungry pretty quick and just walk out to the highway." Page 7 Paragraph 5
Explanation: Gallien was a friend of Chris who he met while picking him up and Gallien ws worried for is friend he thought about helping out. Gallien thought that once he was hungry he will go to the nearest McDonald's. -
Hunting
"He saw but dd not shoot a grizzly on may 2,shot at but missed some ducks on may 4, and finally killed and ate a spruce grouse on may 5; but he didn't shoot anything else until may 9 when when e bagged a single small squirrel, by which point he'd written "4th day famine" in the journal." Page 164 Paragraph 1
Explanation: This is what Chris killed in his 8 day streak. -
Map
"In 1992, however, there was no more blank spots on the map." Page 174 paragraph 3
Explanation: Chris likes to adventure the world even though the world was already discovered by his point in time. -
Last words
"On August 12,h wrote what would prove to be the final words in his journal:"Beautiful Blueberries."From August 13 through 18, his journal records nothing beyond a tally of the days."Page 199 Paragraph 1
Explanation: These few sentences of Chris's notebook where the last words he wrote down before his death. -
Signs
"Then, after July 3, his physical condition suddenly went to hell.By August 19, he was dead."Page 190 Paragraph 1
Explanation: This shows how bad in condition Chris McCandlles was at the time.
