Characters
Christopher McCandles
Alexs' Journey
Chris McCandles Quotes
The End
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This guy was found dead in a broken down abandoned bus in Alaska in 1992
Who is Alex (Chris) McCandles?
100
This is the name that Chris gives himself once he leaves college.
Who is Alexander Supertramp?
100
Alex starts his journey by doing this.
What is 'donating all of his money for law school to a charity'?
100
Alex said this about himself in his journal. It was his way of talking about his journal.
What is “Two years he walks the earth, no phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. " -Into the Wild 163
100
Chris says this when he finally comes upon the bus in Alaska.
What is "Magic Bus"?
200
This guy picked up Alex in Salton City and became very close to him. They even had plans to go backpacking together and he even wanted to adopt Alex.
Who is Ronald Franz?
200
Chris said this when he talked about his relationship with his parents and how he is going to view them once he leaves.
What is "I’m going to divorce them as my parents once and for all and never speak to either of those idiots again as long as I live.”
200
This is where Alex gets lost on a canoe trip for some time. He looks for give outs to the ocean but can never find any until some local natives assist him.
What is Mexico?
200
Alex wrote this on a piece of paper he left on the door of the bus in Alaska.
What is "S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. August ?" -Into the wild, 12
200
Chris survived this many days in Alaska.
What is 114 days (four months)?
300
This guy employed Alex for about two months. Alex said that he gave him the closest thing he's ever had to a home.
Who is Wayne Westerberg?
300
Alexs' mother later told the author that Alex believed a person could only carry this.
What is "only what they could carry on their back"?
300
Alex becomes very close to this person and helps her out during her flea market. He keeps in close contact with her until he leaves for Alaska.
Who is Jan Burres?
300
Alex said this to Wayne regarding his mail once he left for Alaska.
What is “Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild.” Into the Wild, 69
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Alex wrote this in his journal in his few last days about his death.
What is "Literally trapped in the wild" ?
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Alex often wrote to this person and this is the only person in his family that he had contact with after he left home.
Who is Carine McCandless (Alexs' sister)
400
Alex said that this was his reason for leaving and living on the road.
What is 'to encounter new experiences for happiness, because there is no other joy than having an endlessly changing horizon"?
400
Alex ventured here for his last visit with Wayne before he set out to Alaska. He worked in Waynes grain elevator in order to make enough money to buy the supplies he needed for Alaska.
What is Carthage, South Dakota?
400
Alex said this in terms of his career and how he was going to gain money.
What is ""How I feed myself is none of the government's business. Frick their stupid rules " -Into the Wild, 6
400
Alex died of this.
What is starvation?
500
This person was the last to see Alex alive. He dropped him off at the Stampede trail and told Alex to reconsider his decision to go into the Alaskan Wilderness.
Who is Jim Gallien?
500
These were the last words written in Alexs' journal.
What is "Beautiful Berries"?
500
Alex traveled along this trail in Alaska. He passed over it with ease in mid-April because the river was still frozen. He then found an abandoned bus which he used for a shelter.
What is The Stampede Trail?
500
Alex always had a particular way he viewed how a person should live their life, he said that this was the very basic core of a mans spirit.
What is 'His passion for adventure'?
500
Ten months after McCandles death his father brought this into the bus he passed in.
What is a survival and first aid kit?
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