Into+the+Alaskan+Wild+(Leah,+Caitlin)


 * Title of your section (listed below)
 * 4 sentence summary
 * 2 most important quotes / why they’re important to overall book
 * Image that represents key ideas / events from the chapter(s) à NOT a photograph from the book—an image that you think captures the ideas of this section.
 * Purpose of the section (think about why Krakauer is choosing to include this information in the book—how does it add to the story?)
 * Lingering questions (any questions that you’re still wondering / want to discuss that are related to this section)

= Into the Alaskan Wild = -Chris McCandless decides he wants to return to cilvilization, realizing that happiness is best when shared and develops a appriciation of society, but due to the high level of the rivers, and his ill equiptedness he returned to the bus were he shortly after perished. A year after McCandless death, Joh Krakauer and a team set out into the alaskan wilderness to concure what the last seconds of McCandless life were like. Krakauer and his team endured some of the hardships that McCandless incountered and approximated the therory that McCandless probibly died of a mold born illness that grows on the potato seeds he was eating. Although McCandless made some mistakes along his journey his death was an unavoidable uncertancy.

-" It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs,... McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme.” This quote validates that McCandless behavior isnt unusal, that its only the fact that he died that has created such an uproar, that he did not do this out of stupidity. He explored himself, and acted apon the extreme in a logical fasion, testing his limits and making a statement agianst society. "one of hislast acts was to take a picture of himself, standing near the bus the high Alaska sky, one hand holding his final note toward the camera lens, the other raised in a brave, beatific farewell. His face horribly emaciated, almost skeletal.... He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to god" This is important because it shows that McCandless died peacfully and happily. He accomplished what he wanted to and was not ashamed of him self for not surviving the Alaskan wild. Its the final sentance of the book, and wraps up the final moments of McCandless's life and emphasizes how he was at peace when he died.

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- I believe that the purpose of this section was to wrap up the book. Fill us in on the final details of Chris McCandless life and death. Its Krakauer's view on what he saw and thought when he and his team visited the sight of were McCandless died. It gives detials on how McCandless death could have been avoided with a map and better understandance of the land. It also gives Krakauer's input onto why McCandless went into the wild the way he did, in concequence the reader gets a more powerful and introvert view on McCandless. Krakauer also goes on to explain McCandless death and this is the main buildup to the book- how he acculy died, which happened to be due to mold found on the wild potato seeds McCandless had eaten. This was one of the main buildups thoughout the book and when answered it proved McCandless wasnt careless and id death was by sheer luck and was unavoidable.

-In the New York Times annotation it indicates that McCandless was injured but Krakauer never mentioned anything about him being injured, was he or was he not injured before he died of starvation?