Into The Wild Example – Flashcards
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From whom did Krakauer receive an unusual letter in January, 1993, and why did this person contact Krakauer?
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Ronald A. Franz
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What about Franz's past most likely drew him to McCandless?
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he picks up hitch hikers
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What about McCandless's life does Franz say he should change? What advice does McCandless have for Franz?
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Franz thinks McCandless should be more educated and McCandless tells Franz to get out on to the road and do what he loves.
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What does Franz do for a living, and what souvenir is McCandless able to create for himself as a result?
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Leather Worker makes him a belt
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After leaving Franz and heading for San Diego, McCandless sends a postcard to Jan Burres in which he states that he will work for a friend in South Dakota if possible.Who is this friend?
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Wayne Westburg
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According to the second postcard to Jan Burres, what type of adventure does McCandless discover that he wishes he had found earlier?
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Jumping Trains
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Before driving McCandless as close to South Dakota as possible, what supplies does Franz give him?
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Machete, arctic parka, and a collapsible fishing pole
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What special request does Franz make of McCandless before they part ways for the last time? What is Chris's response?
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To have Franz adopt him and Chris told him they would talk when he returns
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In the long letter he sends Franz after they part ways Chris reiterates his advice.How does Franz respond this time?
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He does it
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How did Franz learn of McCandless's death, and what effect did Chris's death have on Franz's faith and sobriety?
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2 hitch hikers, who read about him, Franz renounces God and buys his first whiskey bottle in a long time.
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What do the two excerpts that open the chapter have in common, and what light is shed on Chris's personality as a result?
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About men who are isolated this is just like Chris.
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What is one reason that Krakauer finds Westerberg shorthanded in the fall after Alex has died?
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He snaps at his own workers
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What kind of employee was McCandless during the four weeks he spent in Carthage before heading off to Alaska?
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A hard Worker
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Who is the one person in Carthage that Alex said he could tell things that he couldn't tell the others, and who is the one family member he actually discussed with that person?
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Gail Borah, Carine
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What does Westerberg assume about Alex's strained relationship with his family?
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That whatever reason he had for being pissed off it must have been a good one.
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Westerberg remembers Alex as a very social young man. In particular, he recalls Alex receiving letters from "a girl who had a big crush on him." Who, most likely, sent those letters?
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Tracy
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Though Krakauer describes Chris as being drawn to women, he also describes him as celibate. In Krakauer's opinion, why did Chris remain chaste?
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He urned everything
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Reread the postcards Alex sent to Westerberg and Jan Burres that appear at the end of the chapter. What is similar about the tone of each letter?
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excited happy
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Krakauer feels Ruess is most similar to Chris. Why might this be?
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Because they are very similar, because Ruess did want to live in the wild
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which outdoorsman do YOU feel is most similar to Chris? In what way?
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Ruess
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What do you think of people like Chris McCandless and those listed above? Why?
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smart but stupied
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Gene Rosellini
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Devoted his life to an expirament, Brillant student, Practiced Martial Arts and Yoga
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John Waterman
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Went solo ascent to Mt. Hunter, Rasied in similar suburbs, attracted less attention
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Carl McCunn
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Forgot when he was going to be picked up, also carried small bag, couldn't signal anything.
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Everett Ruess
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Decided he wanted to live alone forever, went on similar trip, attended an art school.
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What is the first possible clue to Chris's identity after his body is found?
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Blue sweatshirt
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Why are Gallien and Westerberg met with resistance when they call to offer the information they have on Alex?
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Because Chris told them he lived in South Dakota
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Which member of Chris's family is the first to find out about his death?
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Sam
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What type of work did Walt McCandless do after receiving his diploma?
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Jet Propulsion Lab
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How did Walt meet and fall in love with Billie?
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meet her as a secratary at hughes
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A guitar was found in Chris's abandoned Datsun. Where did it come from?
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Billie
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What example of Chris's "will not easily deflected from its trajectory" does Krakauer offer from Chris at age two?
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He snuck out of the house and stole his neighbors candy
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How did Chris respond to being placed in a gifted program in the third grade?
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Wasn't happy about it
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What career decision put a tremendous strain, emotionally and financially, on the McCandless family while Chris was growing up?
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walt working for NASA and money
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Which extended relative did Chris have a lot in common with? What do we learn about that family member's eccentric and unusual lifestyle?
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Carine
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Why did Chris once receive an F in high school, and what did his father tell him about the grade after meeting with the teacher?
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Chris did format a lab report correctly, he told him he deserved it
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Why does Carine think Chris quit the American University Symphony?
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Because he didn't like being told what to do
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In this chapter we finally get a physical description of Chris McCandless. What do we learn about him?
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small eyes like Billie, strong well coordinated
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Chris was too strong-willed to take instruction from his father or from coaches, but he did excel at one sport? What sport was it?
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Running and Golf
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What are some examples of Chris's social and political passions and actions?
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Did not like being told what to do
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Why does Krakauer describe Chris's feelings toward money as paradoxical?
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he was good at getting money but did not like having it
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How did Chris spend the summer after his high school graduation, and what dark note does Krakauer leave us on at the very end of the chapter?
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sales
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Gaylord Stuckey, who transports Chris across the Yukon Territory to Fairbanks at the risk of losing his job, takes Chris the whole way to Fairbanks for this reason:
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Because he enjoyed Chris's company so much
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Two items vital for Chris' survival in the Alaskan wilderness that he picks up right after leaving Stuckey:
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ten pound bag of rice, plant guide
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Chris writes his "laconic" journal on blank pages located where?
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back of the plant guide
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Describe Chris' experiences hunting game on his last great adventure:
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starts off bad, but he comes more successful, but could not kill big enough animales for meat
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Near the end of May, Chris jubilantly writes in his journal about this great accomplishment:
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He climbed the mountain
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What becomes Chris' "base camp"?
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The Front of the bus
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Why does Chris refer to the killing of the moose as "one of the greatest tragedies of my life?"
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He felt it was a needless killing of the animal
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What is the first of Chris' "two pivotal setbacks" once he decides to leave the Alaskan bush?
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swimming and 3 acer lake
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Chris admitted to several people his lack of ability and fear in what area?
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swimming
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Describe the shape Chris is in when he returns from his first solo adventure after his high school graduation.
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He almost died of dehydration he was extremely thin he lost a lot of weight.
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What is alarming about Chris' appearance when he first meets his college roommate? What interesting point does Walt make about the result of his first semester at Emory?
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He has a machete a rifle, scuffy beard, worn out clothes
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What is hypocritical about the "rigorous moral code" Chris held himself and others to?
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admired wayne, jack, lea, all people that had major morel flaws
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On page 122, Krakauer mentions a "heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends" that Chris met during the last two years of his life, but Krakauer does not include a name. He also says McCandless overlooked this man's faults and considered him a friend. Who could this person be?
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Wayne
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In the spring of 1989, Chris planned a road Guatemala, but never got there. Where did he decide to go instead?
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He went to Alaska instead, attracted there because of land and glaciers
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What is similar between the two pictures Carine McCandless keeps of her brother?
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His expression, which is pensive stubborn, and little defiant
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What decision that they made about Chris's trip do Chris's parents second-guess?
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Not letting chris to come home and get buckly the dog the summer he dispread but he wouldn't do anything to danger the dog.
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Who informed Carine of her brother's death? How did she respond?
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Her husbanded, she went into denial.
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The chapter ends with Billie wondering why her son would take such astounding chances with his life. What are some reasons young people take risks?
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Taking control of your own life. Taking a challenge.
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When did Jon Krakauer first become aware of McCandless and his story?
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When he sees him on the side of the road and talks to him.
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How did McCandless's journey begin? What did he do immediately after graduating from Emory?
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It began right after college. And He got rid of all his money and changed his name, abandoned his car.
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Though Krakauer claims to have tried to minimize his "authorial presence" in telling the story of Chris McCandless, he does offer the disclaimer that he will interrupt the story at some point during the book. With what type of side story will he interrupt the main narrative? Why does he feel justified in doing so?
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Because he is a good author
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What writer captivated McCandless to the point where Chris began to model his life after him while he was in college? What in particular did McCandless admire about this author?
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Leo Tolstoy
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The response of the public to McCandless's story was decidedly mixed. However, reactions to the story usually fell into two categories. What were they?
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Some readers admire the boy for his ideas; others think he was a wacko.
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To whom is the postcard that opens the chapter addressed, and where was it received?
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Wayne Westerberg In Carthage, South Dakota
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The postcard is signed, "Alex," but the details within match those we have learned about Christopher McCandless and his journey. Why might this be?
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Because the person may already know him
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Why is Jim Gallien concerned that Alex's backpack appears to weigh only twenty-five or thirty pounds?
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Because he doesn't think he has enough supplies.
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What is Gallien's opinion of people who come to Alaska to "live off the land"?
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Living there is nothing exciting
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What is wrong with the various supplies Alex has brought with him? What is he missing that Gallien thinks he will need?
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Food and a better gun
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Describe Alex's attitude as Gallien tries to talk him out of his trip into the wilderness
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Annoyed
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What does Alex offer Gallien as they part ways? If Gallien will not accept these items, what does Alex say he will do with them? Why does Alex want to get rid of the items?
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Food and money because he wants to get them on his own.
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What does Gallien give to Alex as they part ways?
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A sandwich and boots
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What is the last thing Alex does before he leaves Gallien? What does this say about Alex's attitude as he heads out into the wild?
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Takes a picture of him
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Gallien considers notifying the authorities about Alex and his plans. Why doesn't he?
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He says I figured he'd be okay and walk out onto the highway because that's what anybody would do but not chris.
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How does Jack London make the Alaskan wilderness sound in the excerpt from White Fang?
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Ruged
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After Yutan Construction's attempt to upgrade the Stampede Trail failed, what was left behind? What purpose did this object serve during the construction project? What purpose did it serve after the project's demise?
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The three buses, made a road to transport iron ore, it was a back country shelter.
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What do Thompson, Samel, and Swanson discover after they cross the Teklanika River and reach their destination on ATVs?
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An S.O.S
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What type of note is found? What does Samel subsequently find?
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S.O.S
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What is airlifted from the scene of McCandless's death along with his remains?
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Camera with five rows of desposed films, book.
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How much did McCandless weigh at the time of his autopsy? What was the most probable cause of death?
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Starvation.
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According to the final line of Shepard's excerpt, what do people travel to the desert to find? How does this relate, specifically, to McCandless?
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To find reality
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What do the National Park Service rangers in Lake Mead National Recreation Area discover two miles from the roadway? Why did Chris abandon this item?
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The Datsun
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How did Thoreau inspire McCandless in his situation at Lake Mead?
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He tells him to abandon the car
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Why does Chris continually bury his few valuables?
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He wants to shed unnecessary baggage
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Chris keeps two records of his journey. What are they?
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Burning his money and A snapshot journal
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Chris is picked up by two drifters named Jan and Bob. Why is Jan, in particular, so drawn to Chris?
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Because he looks like their son
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How does Chris manage to sneak into Mexico without ID, and what trouble does he run into once he crosses the border?
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Back of someones truck
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How does McCandless feel when he goes to Los Angeles to obtain an ID and a job?
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Wants to go back to the highway
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After circling back to possibly recover his car, in what major city does Chris end up working in an Italian restaurant before getting "itchy feet"? What disappointment does he face when he digs up his belongings before heading back out on the road?
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Las Vegas the camera is ruined
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What does it mean when London and McCandless refer to the "dominant primordial beast"?
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The beast is a will to survive
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While in Bullhead City, McCandless works what might be the most conventional job he takes while on his journey? What is it?
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McDonalds
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His coworkers from Bullhead City remember Chris in considerably different ways. How does Dreeszen recall Chris? How about Zarza? Why does Zarza think he finally quit?
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Dreesz- didn't wear socks Zarza- thinks he was lazy and that he quit cuz she told him he needed to
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After living on the streets for a while, where does Chris end up staying while in Bullhead City, and what does Charlie mean when he says that Chris had "complexes"?
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An a banded mobile home
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Who was Tracy?
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A young girl who like Chris
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Why is Jan so curious about Chris's family? What is the only thing he tells her about his background before she drives him to the post office and says good bye for the last time?
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She is very concerned about him.
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The chapter opens with whom arriving at the Teklanika?
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Explorers
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Because the explorers have a topographical map, they discover something that could have saved Chris' life. What was it they discovered and how could it have helped Chris?
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Gauging station shelter
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What is the large skeleton the explorers discover outside the bus?
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Caribou
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What are some of the items discovered in the bus once the explorers get there?
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Torn Mattres, wool mittens, boots, matches, tooth brush, pot's, dishes
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Who was Sir John Franklin and what did he have in common with Chris McCandless?
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surgeon
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Wayne Westerberg
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Friend Chris comes to know after Wayne picks him up as a hitchhiker. Finds Chris hard Working and Funny.
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Jan & Bob
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Like parents to Chris, Gave him a ride to the slabs
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Ron Franz
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Acted as a father to Chris, Teaches Chris leather work , becomes atheist when learns about Chris's death.
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Tracy
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Girl that like Chris, Big difference between them, Chris didn't seem interested in her, and she sent him lots of letters
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Gail Borah
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Waynes Girlfriend, took care of Chris, told her things he couldn't tell anyone else
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Walt
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Chris's biological Father, Didn't get along well with his dad, couldn't push chris to do more
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Billie
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Chris's mom, She played guitar to put chris to sleep when little
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Carine
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Chris's biological sister, Had a music rivalry both played french horn and Chris quit when she was better than him
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According to the passage from Dr. Zhivago, what three pieces of "spiritual equipment" are necessary for one to live a full life?
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Love of one's neighbor, free personality, life as sacrifice
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If McCandless had a little trouble hunting game when he returned to the bus, why does Krakauer describe him as "balanced on a precarious edge" on page 188?
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Because he had run up a sizable caloric deficit
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A serious flaw all but disproves this theory, with the POT. SEED?
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Greusick of eating, potato seeds, He would have to eat pound after pound of seeds.
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What theory does Krakauer believe killed Chris?
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He ate a certain plant
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How much time passed between the day Chris' parents were informed of his death and the day they arrived to see the bus where he spent his last days?
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10 months
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What is Billie's state of mind as the Helicopter approaches the bus? How about Walt?
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Sad, distracted
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What is the significant about the spoon that Billie finds
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It reminds her of his childhood
