Hi everybody!! I know I haven't posted in a long time, but this book took me a long time to read. This was my free choice book for my summer reading homework. For the record, this is a true story.
Jon Krakauer tells the true story of a boy named Christopher Johnson McCandless, otherwise known as Alexander Supertramp. After Chris graduated from Emory, he gave $25,000 of his savings to a charity called OXFAM, abandoned his car, and literally set fire to all the money in his pocket. He went by the name Alex, and thus created a new life for himself.
Chris had always wanted to go to Alaska, ever since he was little, and live off the wild. Many people knew of his dream, and they tried to talk Chris out of going, but his mind was made. He was going to Alaska. Chris was always a smart kid, and people thought that he could have pulled this off. About four months after leaving, a decomposed body was found in the Alaskan wilderness. Sure enough, the body was Christopher McCandless's. Why would Chris have gone out into the wild like this? He must have known something would have happened to him. Did he have any issues with his family/friends? And how did he die? Read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer to find out.
