Into the Wild Chapters 13-15 – Flashcards
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Who was the first quote by?
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John haines
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Where did Carine McCandless live
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Virginia Beach
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What were the two pictures on her mantle
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One of her and Chris when he was seven and another I'd her and Chris when he was a junior in high school (he had the same look in his eyes)
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Who is Buckley
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He is a 13 years old Shetland sheepdog that Chris is attached to and frequently gets scared of Carine's dog (18 month Rottweiler) named Max
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Who did Chris want to take with him after graduating College
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Buckley but he could not because Buckley had been hit by a car and was still recovering Chris feels that this never would have happened if he had been watching Buckley
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Did up many people think carine and Chris were twins
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Yes
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What is carine character like
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Energetic and self-assured as well as a high achiever and was always quick to state an opinion and just like Chris would always give trouble to walt and billie as an adolescent but she was not an adventurer like Chris
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What did she recently do
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Bought an expensive new home and also owns a auto repair shop called C.A.R. services with her husband Chris fish
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True or false Korean can't go a day without crying about Chris
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True
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What was the day Carine found out about Chris
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Sept. 17, 1992
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What happened when Chris fish got home early?
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He had a weird look on his face Helped clean and wash the dog which he never does Then sat in the couch with his head down Then told Carine that Sam called Walt and billie and informed them that they found Chris dead starved in a bus Carine calmed down after crying hysterically and calming down at 11 o'clock Then her and fish took a four hour trip to walt and billies house in Chesapeake bay but before getting there carjne stopped at a church to receive answers but didn't get any
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What finalized the ID if Chris mccandless
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Dental records
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What was found with Chris's body
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Chris is rifle, a pair of binoculars, the fishing rod Ronald franz had given him, one of the Swiss Army knives at jan burres had given him, the book of plant lore in which his journal was written, a Minolta camera, and 5 rolls of film
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How did Carine act after hearing the news? and what about walt
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She ate a lot but that changed later on when she lost 10 pounds the way that Walt reacted after hearing the news about Chris was that he would gain 8 pound
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What were the 2 authors of the quotes at the beginning of chapter 14
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John menlove Edwards Henry David Thoreau
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Why did some people believe that McCandless was on a suicide adventure
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Because of the note that he gave Westerberg before leaving
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John the author of into the wild believe that the death was unplanned
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True
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What are some similarities between John and Chris
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They both are willful, self absorbed, intomentally reckless, moody, and disappointed their father in the usual ways
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When do the John decide he wanted to climb Devils Thumb
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In 1977 he was 23 years old which is a year younger than when Chris went into the Alaska Bush
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Where was John working when he quit to go to the Devils Thumb
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An untinerant carpenter, freaking condos for $3.50 per hour
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Some of the books that John read were the authors
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Nietzsche, Kersouc, and John Menlove Edwards
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what does Devils Thumb separate
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the Alaska-British Columbia border east of Petersburg, which is a fishing village only accessible by boat or plane
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Did Jon have enough money to do a one-way airline ticket to Alaska
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No, he had a 1960 Poniac Star Chief and $200 in cash
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Where did Jon abandon his car?
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Gig Harbor, Washington
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What was the Ocean Queen? What did Jon have to do to get a ride?
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a stout, no-nonsense workboat from thick planks of Alaska yellow cedar. He had to take over the helm regularly
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What's the inside passage
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the path that the Ocean Queen took
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Who is Kai Sandburn
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a woman in Petersburg, that lets Jon sleepover at her house
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What is on Petersburg?
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the Devil's thumb on the mainland rising from a frozen bald known as Stikine Ice Cap
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what did Jon do after getting in Petersburg?
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got a ride 25 miles over saltwater and then ski 30 miles up the glacier, the Baird. then he got a ride from 3 planters to the Head of Thomas Bay. he walked the rest of the way.
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what did Jon make in Seattle that would help prevent him from falling to his certain death
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he crossed two shower rods and put them behind him to catch him if he were to all backwards
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Was Jon lonely
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Yes, it made him think everything around him more
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where did Jon arrive 3 days after leaving Petersburg
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Stikine Ice Cap
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What was it about Stikine Ice Cap that was terrifying for Jon?
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the glacier spills over the edge of a high plateau, dropping seaweed through a gap between 2 mountains in a phantasmagoria of shattered ice
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What did Jon do in Stikine Ice Cap to prevent falling or dying?
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he would walk back and forth (from one dead end to another) to hopefully find a way out
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how long did Jon plan to stay in Stikine Ice Cap?
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3 weeks and a month
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Why did Jon pay someone $150 in Petersburg before he left?
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He didn't want to carry everything, such as his 4-week food supply, heavy winter camping gear, and climbing hardware, so he was having someone fly it up to him
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base camp was on Stikine Ice Cap, what happened on May 6th
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he set up base camp
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what happened on May 10th
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the helicopter was there with his food
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what happened on May 11th
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the helicopter brought down the food
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why doesn't Jon or Chris notice any of the sore knuckles or injuries?
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The idea and dream of being on the summit is much stronger than the pain that they feel
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Why was Jon forced to retreat back to base camp?
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The mountain was getting steeper, and when he got to one point (no matter how hard he tried) he couldn't get his axe to stay, therefore he couldn't climb the mountain. He even started to break out, but calmed down and decided to go back to base camp.
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Who were the author of the quotes on chapter 15
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John Muir and Donald barthelme
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Why didn't jon leave the tent very much
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Because of the heavy snow and high winds
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what was Jon saving for the top of the summit
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a cigar
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Did Jon debate going back up the mountain? If so why?
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Yes, he did because he had gone through so much the first time explained in the last chapter,
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what made him decide to go back up the mountain?
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He didn't want to have to deal with the sympathetic looks he would be getting from everyone, because he didn't it make it to the summit.
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what did Jon decide to do on the third day of the storm
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smoke the cigar he was saving and eat some oatmeal
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what happened when he ate the oatmeal?
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He threw the match, in his tent, on top of a garbage bag making it make a tiny fire that Jon put out within seconds. It also made a little hole in his tent
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who's tent is it?
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His father's (Lewis Krakauer)
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how was jon's father?
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violate, never admitted being wrong, weekend mountaineer, (taught Jon how to climb), kind, and generous man, he was also very competitive
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what did Lewis have planned for Jon
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his him to go into a career of medicine, law, or something of that nature
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what was of meaning of success and happiness according to Jon's father
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to be in Havard Medical School
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where did Jon live before college
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Corvallis, Oregan
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what was Jon's job?
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carpenter and climbing bum
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what did Lewis have (disease)
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polio (30 yrs. ago), and the symptoms were flaring up really bad and was one of the first to have post-polio
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did Lewis medicate himself?
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yes, to the point to where he gave himself way too much medicine and almost killed himself later on
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what was a result of all the medicines
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he was becoming irrational and unlike himself. This made people no longer be friends with him, and Jon's mother had to move out
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What happened after Jon's father, Lewis, attempted suicide?
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he was put into a psychiatric hospital near Portland, where he had a look of terror, and would soil with him, and his eyes would get wild
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did Jon decide to try and climb the mountain again?
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yes, three days after retreating the first time, he went back up and got 120 feet above the bergschrund, but then had to turn around again because of a snow squall that forced him to turn around, but instead of going to the base camp, he spent the night on the steep flank of the mountain
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was there a storm here or no?
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yes
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what caused Jon to turn around where he spent the night
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He kept getting buried in the snow, because of the major storm. He got tired of it and left. But on his way down, he could hardly see infront of him, he was stepping around blindly hoping to stumble upon his tent
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Did Jon try for a third time?
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yes, and followed the route that Fred Beckey had followed in 1946 in going to the summit of Devil's Thumb and on this route found an unclimbed route and decided to take it
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what did he do on May 15th?
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He decided to go up the mountain because it was not stormy anymore
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did he ever make it to the summit?
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YES, he even took pictures to prove it
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what happened one week later
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he was camped in the rain beside the sea, where he saw a man driving a boat named Jim Freeman to look for bears and Jon asked if he could give him a ride to the town. He said yes.
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Where did Jon sleep that night?
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Jim let Jon spend the night in a junked step van parked in his backyard
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where did Jon go when he couldn't sleep
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Kito's Kave (They believed that he had been at Devil's Thumb)
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what happened less than a month after being on the summit
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He was back in Boulder, mailing up aiding on the Spruce Street Townhouses, the same condos he'd been framing when he for Alaska
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when did Jon go to the summit, what year?
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1977
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What did many people think about Chris McCandless? What did Jon think about Chris?
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That he went on a suicidal mission, but Jon thinks that it wasn't even a thought of losing his life when he planned the trip, but the idea of getting closer to your dream makes you forget about any other consequences.
