Then the next day Westerburg offered to drive him down ten miles down the road, when they got there it was raining badly. After he scarfed down his food he passed out at the table.
He talked about how McCandless didn’t eat so Westerburg’s friend’s wife offered him dinner. How he met the kid and he described what he looked like. They found Wayne Westerburg(McCandless friend) he was telling some things about him. No one knew who he was where he was from and why he was there? Come to find out and Chris McCandless is dead and people see his remains for evidence. Then when they got to their destination, they find a couple who looks spooked out and then they look inside the bus and there are some things in a sleeping bag. They had to be very cautious because of the road conditions. Three men went up there to check things out. In this chapter we learn the background story on the Stampede Trail. He was hoping that he would do things that normal people would do. They finally got to be where Alex needed to go. Alex was really giving but stubborn to get the things he needed to survive. Jim and Alex get to know each other a bit better during this trip. Jim Gallien offers him a ride to his destination. Alex is going on a hiking adventure and he is going without being fully equipped. Behavior that seemed utterly bizarre, at the start of Into the Wild, is becoming easier to conceive of with every successive chapter.In this chapter we met Jim Gallien and Alex.
Not only Rosselini, Waterman, McCunn, and Reuss (as well as the Irish monks described) have shared McCandless's impulses, but the author himself. Because of his candor, readers are able to take this into account when the author views McCandless's activities with some sympathy.Īnd as a result of reading this chapter and the one that follows, the reader moves closer to McCandless and his perspective. In fact, it would be more ethically suspect if Krakauer did not divulge that he had his own "into the wild" experience as a young man. Note, however, that Krakauer's integrity as a journalist is not compromised, since he is entirely up-front about the experiences he shares in common with his subject, McCandless. In this chapter he abandons that perspective. Up to this point in Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer has maintained journalistic objectivity, or at least the appearance of objectivity. Awkwardly, stiff with fear, I started working my way back down. "My eyesight blurred, I began to hyperventilate, my calves started to shake. "The sour taste of panic rose in my throat," he recalls. Krakauer continues to climb up the glacier. But the pilot engaged to deliver the supplies misreads the altitude, almost entirely missing Krakauer's encampment. Krakauer has arranged ahead of time for supplies to be air-dropped to him so that he can continue his climb. After almost falling into a glacial crevasse, Krakauer sets up camp on a plateau.
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On his third day, however, high winds, stinging sheets of snow, and reduced visibility cause a series of dangerous mishaps. During his first two days of climbing, along a glacier at the base of the rock formation, Krakauer makes genuine progress. Having reached Alaska on a fishing boat, Krakauer meets a woman who puts him up for the night before he sets out to scale the Devils Thumb. At 23, for reasons not dissimilar to those that drove McCandless to head into the wilderness, Krakauer decided to climb a rock formation called the Devils Thumb, on Alaska's Stikine Ice Cap. The majority of this chapter is devoted to Krakauer's reminiscences about his own youthful obsession with mountain climbing. His conclusion is based on the evidence provided by McCandless's journals - as well as the author's personal experience. Based on his own experiences in Alaska when he was a stubborn, headstrong young man, author Jon Krakauer arrives at the conclusion that McCandless's death wasn't suicide or even the result of an unconscious death wish, but rather an accident.
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