Into the Wild: 11/4/14

Prompt: Summary
Pages: 1-102

This book as about a man named Chris McCandless who hitchhikes across he United States, walks into the Alaskan Wilderness, and dies. The author is a non-fiction writer who was tasked with writing a narrative about McCandless for a newspaper. He became so interested in McCandless that he decided to write a book about him. McCandless started in Atlanta, Georgia. He donated all his money left in his collage fund after collage for law school to charity and changed his name to Alexander Supertramp.

He then drove to south California and left his car under a tarp. He removed the license plates and put a note in it saying that anyone who could get it out could have it. He than took everything he might want out of the car and burned all the money he had with him. He hitchhiked to Lake Tahoe and hiked for a week on the Pacific Crest Trail. He was offered a job in northern California but stole a bike and ran away because the man never payed him.

By this point McCandless' family had become very worried. Police started a search for Chris but could not track him. He bought a canoe and paddled from California to Mexico. He was caught by border patrol while crossing back into America and lost his pistol. He buried his backpack and went into Vegas with no money or ID. When he retrieved his backpack he discovered that his camera was ruined. He stopped taking pictures and writing in his journal.