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Into the Wild is the true story of Chris McCandless, a young Emory graduate who is found dead in the Alaskan wilderness in September 1992, when he is twenty-four. McCandless grows up in wealthy Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., and is a very gifted athlete and scholar, who from an early age shows deep intensity, passion, and a strict moral compass. After graduating from high school McCandless spends the summer alone on a road trip across the country, during which he discovers that his father secretly had a second family during Chris’s childhood. McCandless returns home and starts as a freshman at Emory, but his anger over this betrayal and his parents’ keeping it from him grows worse over time.

By the time that McCandless is a senior at…

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Posted By ace m #230281 at Feb 13, 2012 12:24 PM

what dose the woodsman foreshadow about hunting in the wild, and meat?

foreshadow??

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Posted By nicole m #229193 at Feb 07, 2012 6:40 PM

what does krakauer think about the relationship between franz and mccandless?

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Posted By sydney m #228157 at Feb 02, 2012 1:37 AM

What is the flow of the story like?

Is it like your with Chris/Alex. Or is it just facts about him as if you were watching a documentary?

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