The+Beginning+and+the+End+(Trey,+Hollan)

Each group is responsible for completing a wiki page that explores what’s going on in its assigned section.

On your page, you must include:
 * Title of your section
 * 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)


 * The Beginning and the End**


 * Summary**

These two chapters consist of the beginning of Chris McCandless's journey into the Alaskan wilderness. He is picked up four miles out of Fairbanks by a man named Jim Gaillen where he asks him to drop off at the edge of Denali National Park as he intends to live off the land for a few months. Gaillen tries to scare him off of the idea by telling of stories of people who have never returned or the bears that roam the forest, but Chris is unwavered from the idea and proceeds into the wilderness. Over 120 days later, his body is found in the husk of an abandoned bus by two explorers.


 * Quotes**

"Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing."(4)

This quote sets the tone and helps describe how harsh Alaska really is as well as setting a framework for what Chris is getting into. This quote also makes Chris seem somewhat insignificant because his plan to live among the wilderness has already been tried many times, in fact it is a place where people exclusively come to do what Chris plans to do.

"S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS __NO JOKE__. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU. CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?"(12)

This quote plays off the tone established in the previous one as it shows us the fate of Chris McCandless. These two quotes together also us Chris's entrance into the Alaskan wild as well as his exit from it and then proceeds to tell us more about the man known as Chris McCandless. It also establishes a hook for the reader to want to figure out how a man of such confidence and sure of himself ended up starving to death in a bus alone in the middle of the Alaskan Wilderness.


 * Image**




 * Purpose Of The Section**

The purpose of this section is to give the reader an introduction to Chris McCandless, what he wanted to do and his fate and to then explain why he did these things, who he was and how he ended up dead in a bus within the Alaskan wild. It also describes the setting and gives the reader a good idea of how harsh Alaska is.


 * Lingering Questions**

Why did the authorities have no idea who this corpse in the bus was when he signed his own cry for help?

Why was Chris McCandless so ill prepared?