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Chapter 1
Alex also claims to be 24 to a Gallien who pick up Alex while Alex was hitchhiking. The Gallien is worried because Alex seems unprepared for several months stay in Alaska. Gallien asks Alex questions about his hunting license, since he has a rifle with him but Alex says he dosent care about the governments rules. Gallien insists that Alex takes the lunch his wife packed for him and a spare pair of work boots. Then he drops Alex off at the edge of the park, on the Stampede Trail. -
A Familiar Body
The moose hunters found an abandoned bus with supplies including a rifle, backpack, paperback books, clothing and a dead body in the rear of the bus. -
The Description
A man named Wayne Westerberg describes a young man named Chris McCandless and described him as restless and handsome, with a sensitive face and lean physique. He also mentioned that a women would most likely to be attracted to him. Alex was also engaging and friendly. -
A Rocky Relationship
Chris McCandless had a bad relationship with his parents. McCandless felt like his parents were oppressive, secretive, and irrational. -
Distraught Revelations
There were a number of letters that came there when they released a article about the death of McCandless. People said things, like at best McCandless's trip was best too romantic and at worst dangerously foolhardy, or they described McCandless as an too-familiar type, as a starry-eyed incompetent running from his problems or a nihilist with suicidal tendencies, -
Comparisons
Although planning to embark on a life long backpacking trip, Rosellini suffered from long bouts of depression and and multiple psychiatric breakdowns through out his life which eventually lead to his suicide. -
Ruess
Someone named Ruess was in college for a short time then apprenticed himself to the photographer Edward Weston. He renamed himself "Nemo" or "no one". He sought to remove himself from society. -
Alot A Like
People described McCandless and Ruess as both liking people too much to give them up entirely but disliking them enough never to be able to live in society. The author compares them to the papar. -
Jim Gallien Is Back
Gallien sees a front-page news story about a boys death and because Gallien thinks he knows the identity of the body he calls the Anchorage police. After struggling to differentiate himself from other tipsters and cranks, Gallien convinces the police he encountered the dead hitchhiker on the Stampede Trail. But by informing the police that McCandless was from South Dakota, he unknowingly repeats a lie. The police begin an erroneous search for McCandless’s family in South Dakota. -
Oh Brother
A homicide detective reaches Sam McCandless, Chris McCandless’s half-brother, since the rest of the McCandless family has left Virginia. Sam travels to Alaska and positively identifies a headshot of McCandless. He then heads home to explain to his parents that McCandless is dead. -
Reasons
McCandless spent most of his childhood in an atmosphere of thriftiness and striving as his parents worked together to build a satellite systems consulting company. Fights between Billie and Walt McCandless led to closeness between McCandless and his sister, Carine. The tension was sometimes alleviated by camping trips that may have sparked Christopher’s love of the outdoors. Christopher’s paternal grandfather’s love of camping and climbing may also have contributed. -
Hard Worker
The narrator details McCandless’s extraordinary success working as a manager for a construction firm before college. McCandless purchases the Datsun he will drive to the American West. When McCandless graduates from college, his parents offer to buy him a new car out of the money remaining in his college fund, but he lectures them about the folly of materialism. He donates the money to the charity without telling them.