Items
The survival item Krakauer has, but McCandless threw away.
What is a map?
The amount of people with Krakauer.
What is the number three?
What is the Teklanika river?
The trait of McCandless the Alaskans believed he was.
What is incompetent/naive?
The bag that created the foul smell within the bus.
What is the bag of bird feathers and wings?
The profession/type of people that broke the lock and illegally used the gauging station before Krakauer.
Who are hunters?
The structure Krakauer and his party used to cross the river.
What is the gauging station?
McCandless hunts small game, forages berries, and creates his own makeshift utilities.
What is being self-reliant?
The animal remains Krakauer walked past and that were made and documented by McCandless.
What are moose bones?
The name that was carved into the bear skull.
Who is Alexander Supertramp?
The name of the trail.
What is the Stampede Trail?
The idea presented by the opening quote.
What is the return to nature?
The two things that have someone else's name on it.
What are rubber boots and a machete?
The person who wrote "rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?"
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
The geographical landmark where Krakauer says "our feet churn the muck on the bottom into a foul-smelling miasma of decomposing slime."
What is a pond?
The juxtaposition of McCandless' happiness in finding the beauty of nature and his demise being compared to Krakauer's experience getting to the bus.
What is the twosidedness/nature of the wilderness?
The item McCandless created and used after he had started starving.
What is a makeshift belt?
The names of the Alaskan hunters accompanying Krakauer.
Who are Gorden Samuel and Ken Thompson?
The three places Krakauer compares the environment of the bus and the surroundings to.
What are the Brooks Range, Alexander Archipelago, and Denali mastiff?
Theme shown by McCandless for throwing away his map and embracing nature just to be trapped by nature and unable to find his escape.
What is irony?