Exploratory_Essay

Exploratory Essay When I first started reading “Into the Wild,” I thought to myself, “Why exactly is this boy leaving everything that he knew and loved to go on this journey'” Put himself in complete danger by hitchhiking his way ALONE to Alaska. He gave up all of his possessions and the $25,000 that he had saved up to charity. What was the point' In the end, it shows that the only way that this story could’ve turned out, was him lying dead and decomposing and found by a moose hunter. How else could the story have turned out besides that way' McCandless had nothing. Nothing at all, nothing to support himself in any way whatsoever. In the beginning of this book, there is an author’s note, basically telling everyone the story plot and what will, in the end, happen to this young man on his way to “living off the wild.” It tells his real name, Christopher Johnson McCandless, also, it tells that he had given $25,000 in saving to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Chris McCandless came from what most people would way, himself, mccandless, life, out, chris, through, story, nothing, new, go, found, family, end, young, wilderness, wild, turned, tells, students, start, possessions, own, one, moose, man, invented, hunter, hitchhiking, find, everything, decomposing, dead, danger, college