My Escape Into the Wild

                I think that I would like to try going into the wild for a period of time. It would be nice to escape from civilization to be by yourself for a little. Even thought that Chris and the others mentioned in the book may have suffered a bit, I think their adventures were well worth it. My reasoning for this is because what they did was their dream and all they were doing was making it a reality. They took the saying “follow your dream” to a whole new level and I personally respect them for it. I would like to try a wilderness retreat because I think I would be able to survive for a little while and if it turned out that I was unable, then I would just go back to civilization unlike Chris did. If I were going into the wild I would most likely choose a place that was warmer then Alaska. It would be easier to survive in that type of environment where there would be more animals and plants to eat and you wouldn't have to worry about freezing to death. One thing that I would be escaping from would be the crowded civilization. It would be nice to get away from everybody. After a while I would miss human companionship. It might get boring after a while without human interaction.  Another thing I would be escaping and would not miss is all the crime caused by people. Although I would love to go into the wild and just be by myself, I would eventually have to go back to civilization. I would miss other people too much. 

Into The Wild Introduction

Adventuring Into The Wild

Andrew 

English Project 

Into the wild is a non-fiction book about a young man who hitchhiked to Alaska. Annandale Virginia is where the main character, Chris McCandless, grew up. In April 1992 he hitchhiked to the Stampede Trail in Alaska. He was a very intelligent young man and graduated from Emory University with high grades. After graduating Chris donated $25,000 dollars to charity and began to travel in his car. On September 6, 1992, his body was found inside an old bus that was in Alaska. John Krakauer began to trace the steps that Chris took that eventually lead to his death. Chris got rid of his legal name and called himself “Alexander Supertramp”. He spent some time in Carthage, South Dakota, where he work in a grain elevator owned by a man with the name Wayne Westernberg. Krakauer suggest that Chris was influenced by the words of Henry David Thoreau and his favorite writer, Jack London. Once he got to Alaska he survived about 119 days in the wilderness.