The+Outcasts+(Anna,+Bailey)

Chapters 8-10 The Outcasts

Chapter 8 talk about others who have traveled to Alaska, such as Gene Rosselini, John Waterman, and Carl McCunn, all of the outsiders were seeking solitude. In Chapter 9, the author quotes a letter by Everett Reuss who disappeared in the desert of the American Southwest. This was significant because he changed his identity and wandered in the desert until the last evidence was found, of him, along the Colorado River. Chapter 10 talks about The New York Times post about Chris McCandless and many come forward to tell how they knew Chris.
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One of the most important quotes in these chapters is an excerpt in one of the letters Everett Ruess wrote which said, //"I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all the lone trail is the best...I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is"// (Krakauer 91). This quote is important because it shows how similar Ruess and McCandless were and how they didn't wander around the world looking for anyone or anything, but they did it for themselves because they found being on the "lone trail" is the best kind of trail. McCandless didn't care what anyone said about him traveling and nothing stopped him because he was so passionate about it. Another important quote in these chapters in when Krakauer is comparing McCandless to Rosellini and Waterman, other travelers like McCandless. Krakauer states, //"McCandless didn't conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype. Although he was rash, untutored in the ways of the backcountry, and incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasn't incompetent--he wouldn't have lasted 113 days if he were. And he wasn't a nutcase, he wasn't a sociopath, he wasn't an outcast. McCandless was something else--although precisely what is hard to say. A pilgrim, perhaps"// (85). This quote is important because is shows that McCandless was not like the other wanderers who tried to do what he did. None of them thought like McCandless, who wasn't expecting anyone to come save him or help him. He was pure born natural when Krakauer calls him a "pilgrim". If McCandless had of been any different than he had and been like the other stereotypical travelers, he wouldn't of survived as long as he had.
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 * Purpose**: Krakauer chose to include this information in the book because in these chapters he is mentioning other travelers like McCandless, such as Gene Rosenelli, Carl McCunn, and Everett Ruess, who also traveled through the Alaskan trails. He compares McCandless to them to show that he is very different from them. Rosenelli and McCunn were the stereotypical travelers trying to survive the Alaskan forest, but McCandless was different, he was a natural. They all had there different ways in surviving and trying to survive and Krakauer writes about this to show the different viewpoints of people traveling in Alaska.


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What is the importance of having the outsiders?
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