WILD Foundation

Into the Wild describes the story of Christopher McCandless. He hitchhiked in 1992 to Alaska where he was found dead four months later in a deserted bus in the Alaskan wilderness. Author Jon Krakauer uses accounts from people who interacted with Chris and personal research to account the story of Alex Supertramp, another name proclaimed by Chris. The book starts with the description of Chris’s last day in society before starting his journey in the Alaskan wild. It shifts to the events that led…

seeing these events allows you to grow and learn more about yourself. How planning a trip to see these ritual events brings a new point of view into your life just how traveling thourghout nature did for Christopher Mccandleuss in the movie “Into The Wild”. But even though the author Francine Prose came to know and understand the things around her just like Christopher did in the film they both faced different sets of dangers. Francine Prose in one of her travels became sick after drinking tea…

It’s not what most people assume. People believe McCandless’ death was stupid, reckless, and it disrespected the land he wanted to live off due to him traveling with very little resources, disappearing from his family, and eventually leading to his fatal death. Christopher McCandless went on adventure to find a purpose of life. His father expected so much from McCandless that he wanted him to go to college and so he did. McCandless was pressured to do what his family wanted and not what he…

Was the pain Chris McCandless brought to his loved ones justified? “Nothing was more important to Chris than truth. He believed strongly that absolute truth should be part of everything you do in this life.” (Carine McCandless) To those who knew Christopher McCandless, he was a charming young man with a bright future ahead of him. He was brimming with self-confidence and had a profound respect for nature. During the May of 1990, after graduating from Emory University as a top athlete with high…

Trends contribute to the credibility of a book. For my book, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, I picked three trends that I thought demonstrated this. My trends for this book were character trends for Christopher Johnson McCandless, “Alex”. Relentless determination, breaking free and curiosity/wonder led to Chris’s adventure throughout the book. I also pick the trend of reporting or journalism that Jon Krakauer uses to tell Chris’s story. The first trend, relentless determination, is shown by…

On September 6, 1992, a young man’s body was found just outside the northern boundary of Denali National Park. That young man’s body was Christopher McCandless, a 24-year-old Emory University Graduate. Chris McCandless had previously left Georgia to go on a 114-day journey cross country before finally starving to death in Denali National Park. His journey leads many to question if McCandless’s journey was a death wish or if he was an intelligent young man seeking for adventure. Shaun Callarman…

The film adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is based upon Christopher McCandless and his attempt to abandon all his possessions, give his $24,000 in savings to charity and hitchhike to Alaska to live within the wilderness. Christopher abandons all family and during his lengthy journey to Alaska meets different people that help shape him in a unique way. Christopher ultimately wants to live off the land, only having what he needs. Although he states he does not want or need anything to be…

As I am someone that has no interest in mountain climbing, Kevin Macdonald’s interpretation of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s intrepid journey, ‘Touching the Void’, is a powerful film that is sure to turn heads and has definitely made me reconsider spending time mountain climbing. This docudrama follows a tragic incident that results in one man’s fight for survival after Joe and Simon’s descent up the unclimbed Peruvian Andes and ends with the audience questioning what they would do. To achieve…

Welcome to Leith In the video “Welcome to Leith,” Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker displayed Craig Cobb a white supremacist trying to take over Leith, a small town in North Dakota, where its residents no longer felt tranquility. They provide live videos from different kind of supremacist around the world and multicultural people who have been living in Leith, both describing each side of their story. In conclusion, these residents feel the need to take actions into their own hands…

John Krakauer portrays a story about a young boy who goes on a trip to find out his true purpose.Using testimony of others and characterization,Krakauer,conveys Chris’s journey to finding ultimate freedom.The society in which he was in didn’t provide him enough happiness which lead to him leaving.Chris abandons everyone and everything that cared about him to do what truly made him happy.The author uses these 2 techniques to portray a message about finding what one can truly do leads to happiness…