1. Chris McCandless is a teenager from a socially prestigious family from the East Coast who abandoned his old life and went to roam the wild country before dying in an old bus in Alaska.
2. Jon Krakauer introduces themes that walk hand-in-hand with the overall feeling of tenacity that is applied to Chris’s overall story. Themes like perseverance, determination, and resilience are all introduced in the authors note.
3. The purpose of the quoted material at the beginning of Chapter 1 is to apply some background information before the story actually begins, to kind of “set the stage” for the events that take place in the book.
4. Alex is a fake identity that Chris made up for himself when writing letters to his sources.
5. Jim is a union electrician who picked up McCandless when he was hitchhiking.
6. Gallien said that McCandless was unprepared, determined, and around 5 foot 7.
7. Gallien tried to advise McCandless not to go unprepared into the wild and offered to give him everything he needed to survive.
8. McCandless politely declined his offer and was given Gallien’s boots.
9. Gallien assumed that McCandless would be okay because of his instincts.
10. That statement is ironic because McCandless did end up going hungry and not walking out to the highway.
Chapter 2
11. Krakauer most likely did this in order to convey the necessary thoughts about the Northland with an author-type spin on it without seeming arrogant or pompous by writing it all himself.
12. The detailed descriptions of these places are probably intended to provide an accurate description of the surrounding land in order to try and instill the same kind of sensation that Chris is feeling into the reader.
13. The cause of Chris’s death was considered to be malnutrition.
Chapter 3
14. Westerberg is the owner of a grain elevator. He and Chris get along very well, and there is a sense of mutual respect between the two of them.
15. A rubber tramp is a homeless man that owns a car and a leather tramp is a homeless man that does not own a car. Both of these terms describe the least-privileged members of the community.
16. The author said this because he wanted to convey that McCandless had found solace in the people in Westerberg’s company.
17. He left Carthage because the cops started looking for him and he needed to resort back to living as a nomad.
18. The reader knows this because McCandless gave Westerberg his edition of War and Peace before he left town.
19. McCandless was born and raised in Annandale, Virginia to his parents Walt and Billie. He had a sister named Carine and graduated from Emory University in 1990.
20. McCandless kept politely declining material gifts that were offered to him, hinting that he was not as materialistic and other members of modern society.
21. He established a new persona for himself, Alexander Supertramp, and this symbolized how he had taken on a new life.
Chapter 4 & 5
Dan,
ReplyDeleteI just looked at your blog and you are missing all questions after chapter 3. Come talk to me in person to see why I can't see the rest of your work.
Sorry Mrs. Zurkowski, I think it was some kind of technical error with "allowing access to the clipboard" or something, but I made a seperate blog post with the rest of the questions.
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