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Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)

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Naked Panda said: " summary. Artie Bolejack

12/8/2011

Into the Wild

Into the wild is the true story of the mysterious life and death of Christopher Johnson, a talented young man from a good family who inexplicably turned his back on everything he seemed to have good fo summary. Artie Bolejack

12/8/2011

Into the Wild

Into the wild is the true story of the mysterious life and death of Christopher Johnson, a talented young man from a good family who inexplicably turned his back on everything he seemed to have good for him. He graduated from Emory University in 1990, lost no time in giving away to charity the most amount of money in his bank account, and then abandoned his past life and the personal identity all knew him by to basically disappear from the lives of family and friends. He anticipated that his parents would want to stop him, so he arranged to have his mail held for at least a month before it was returned to them, thereby giving himself enough time to leave for unknown parts undiscovered by parental intervention. Although he had been outwardly obedient and cordial toward his parents, McCandless seemed to have been inexplicably angry with them for a long time. He immediately set out on a meandering adventure, a vagabond odyssey, as if he had been living a secret internal life all along, one that suddenly prompted him to throw over the affluent middle-class lifestyle he had conformed with previously to seek a purer place to think and feel in. While his family searched for him in vain, he traveled across the United States, living off his wits and the charity of people he met along the way.As he drifted across the country, McCandless kept a wide variety of records of his wanderings and adventures in a series of journal entries written in the third person about his adopted alter ego, "Alexander Supertramp." He also periodically corresponded with some of the many strangers who befriended and helped him in his travels, and who sometimes sheltered him in their houses. He spent two years living a free-spirited and rootless existence, undeterred by frequent, even thrilling, brushes with the law and with disaster, including a bout with heatstroke in the Mojave Desert and a near drowning in the Gulf of California.
Into the wild is a book that is about a man that came from a rich family and was sick and tired of bein rich and gave a great portion of his money (over 85%) to charity, about 2 years later after giving away so much money the man dies from drowning. ...more "

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