Character Analysis: A Hero's Journey

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Now let's get back to chris and his adventure once chris got to colorado he decide to explore the area he even went by a u.s army government and that is when he got past that is then he found jan burres and her and even though he had no idea who they were but chris had good judgement on them and jan and her father offer to let him stay with them for a couple of days and chris chris took this offer this can all be found on pages 39-43. After he left jan burres he left for alaska. Chris found this bus to at which it had everything he needed for survival, and he knew everything about how to through the book that inspired him to go through this journey. At his base he had to hunt for survival to be feed by nature throughout

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