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.