Chris McCandless is
___________ and he stands
for _______________.
Chris McCandless is a free
spirit and he stands for
adventure.
Chris McCandless is naive,
and he stands for unrealistic
ideas.
Chris McCandless is a
transcendentalist, he stands
for personal freedom.
Chris Mccandless is human
and he stands for adventure
and thrill
passage(s) page
(2-3 passages at least) number
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In reality nothing is more damaging to 57
adventurous spirit within a man than a secure
future. the very basic core of a mans living spirit is
his passion for adventure.
...my friend Wayne wants me to stay working at 56
the grain elevator through May and then go
combining with him the entire summer, but I have
my soul set entirely on my Alaskan Odyssey.
This is the last communication that you shall 69
recieve from me. I now walk out to live amongst
the wild.
Gallien offered to drive Alex all the way to 6
Anchorage, buy him some decent gear, and then
drive him back to wherever he wanted to go. No
thanks anyway, Alex replied, ill be fine with what
Ive got.
Gallien asked whether he had a hunting license. 6
Hell, no, Alex scoffed. The government has no
business knowing what Im doing.
...Where he intended to walk deep into the bush 4
and live off the land for a few months
Hell no Alex scoffed How I feed myself is none 6
of the governments business. F*** their stupid
rules.
All Hail the Dominant Primordial Beast! And 38
Captain Ahab Too! - Alexander Supertramp
like not a few of those seduced by the wild, 66, 67
McCandless seems to have been driven by a
variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire. His
yearning, in a sence, was too power full to be
quenched by human contact.
He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most
of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on
living out his beliefs
Chris McCandless lives in the
moment. he stands for self
determination and completing
what he sets out to do.
Chris McCandless is
intelligent but reckless and he
stands for self-discovery.
Chris McCandless is an
arrogant nomad and he
stands for the natural world
vs. society
Chris McCandless is unique
and he stands for fullfillment.
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Chris McCandless is
transcendentalist and stands
...you do not need me or anyoene else around to 57-58
bring this new kind of light in your life. it is simply 58
waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you
have to do is reach for it.
dont hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses.
just get out and do it. just get out and do it. you will
be very, very glad you did.
McCandless didnt conform particularly well to the 85
bush-casualty stereotype. Although he was rash,
untutored in the ways of the backcountry and
incautious to the point of foolhardiness, he wasnt
incompetent - he wouldnt have lasted 113 days if
he were
I wanted movement and not a calm course of 15
existence. I wanted excitement and danger, and
the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt a
superabundance of energy which found no outlet
in our quiet life
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me 117
truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and
wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance,
but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away
hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality
was as cold as the ices
Not infrequently durimg their visits, Franz recalls, 52
McCandlesss face would darken with anger and
fulminate about his parents or politicians or the
endemic idiocy of mainstream american life.
Worried about alienating the boy, Franz said little
during such outbursts and let him rant.
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his 32
longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere
geology and clean slant of light.
It is the experiances, the memories, the great 37
triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which
real meaning is found.
Chris marches to a different drummer. 107
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No man ever followed his genius... I have 47
clutched. passage of Henry David Thoreau
for a world with no society.
Chris McCandless is
detached and stands for self
reliance.
Chris McCandless is a
traveler and stands for self
discovery
Chris McCandless is crazy
and he stands against society
Chris McCandless is
independent and stands for
individualism
Chris McCandles is naive and The author describes a man who has given away
stands for reckless a small fortune, forsaken a loving family,
highlighted by McCandless.
Hell no, how I feed myself is none of the 6
governments business.
We like companionship, but we cant stand to be 96
around people for very long. So we go get
ourselves lost.
You are wrong if you think joy emanates only or 57
pricipally from human relationships. God has
placed it all around us. It is everything and
anything we might expirience. We just have to
have the courage to turn against our habitual
lifestyle and engage in unconventional living
Dont settle down and sit in one place. Move 57
around, be nomadic, make each day a new
horizon.
He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most 67
of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on
living out his beliefs
On May 10, itchy feet returned and Alex left his 37
job in Vegas, retrieved his backpack, and hit the
road again...
How i feed myself is none of the governments 6
business. Fuck their stupid rules.
My days were more exciting when i was penniless 33
and had to forage around for my next meal
S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED,
NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT 12
OF HERE... THANK YOU, CHRIS
MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?
His yearning was too powerful to be quenched by 66
human contact
On weekends, when his high school pals were 113
attending keggers and trying to sneak into
Georgetown bars, McCandless would wander the
seedier quarters of Washington chatting with
prostitutes and homeless people, buying them
meals, earnestly suggesting ways they might
improve their lives.
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adventure.
Chris McCandless is
inconsiderate and stands for
selfishness
Chris McCandless is a
nomad and stands for self-
reliance.
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Chris McCandless is arrogant
and he stands for ingorance.
abandoned his car, watch and map and burned
the last of his money before traipising off into the
wilderness west of Healy.
Entering the wildernesspurposefullyly ill-prepared,
and surving a near-death experience does not
make you a better human, it makes you damn
lucky.
Ive run into several McCandles types...idealistic,
energetic, young guys who overestimated
themselves, underestimated the country, and
ended up in trouble.
How is it, he wonders aloud as he gazes 104
blankely across the Chesapeake Bay, that a kid
with so much compasion could cause his parents
so much pain?
Walt bought Billie a Gianini guitar; on which she 106
strummed lullabies to soothe the fussy newborne.
Twenty-two years later; rangers from the national
park service would find that same guitar on the
backseat of a yellow Datsun abandoned near the
shore of Lake Mead.
Five weeks earlier, hed loaded all his belongings 22
into his little car and headed west without an
itinerary. The trip was to be an odyssey in the
fullest sense of the word
I dont think he ever hung out with any of the 48
employees after work or anything. When he talked,
he was always going on about trees and nature
and weird stuff like that.
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His pack was heavy. He had approximately one
thousand dollars tucked in his boot.
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Over the past 15 years, Ive run into several 71
McCandless types out in the country. Same story:
idealistic, energentic young guys who
overestimate themselves,underestimate the
country, and ended up in trouble. McCandless
was hardly unique; theres quite a few of these
guys hanging around the state, so much alike that
theyre almost a collective cliche. The only

Chris McCandless is crazy
and he stands for adventure
and survival
Chris McCandless is a free
spirit and stands for
transcendentalism
Chris McCandless is
independent and stands for
individuality
Chris McCandless is a
nomad and stands for
complete freedom.
Chris McCandless is ignorant
difference is that McCandless ended up dead, with
the story of his dumbassedness splashed across
the media.
His ignorance which could have been cured by a 72
USGS quadrant and a Boy Scout manual, is what
killed him
His rifle was only .22 caliber, a bore too small to 5
rely on if he expected to kill large animals like
moose and caribou,..
He had no axe, no bug dope, no snowshoes, no
compass. The only navigational aid in his 5
possession was a tattered state road map hed
scrounged at a gas station.
Gallien asked whether he had a hunting license. 6
Hell, no, Alex scoffed. How I feed myself is none
of the goverments business. F*** their stupid
rules.
The very basic core of a mans living spirit is his
passion for adventure. the joy of life comes from 57
our encounters with new new experiences, and
hence there is no greater joy than to have an
endlessly changing horizon for each day to have a
new and different sun.
McCandlesss personality was puzzling in its 115
complexity. He was intensely private but could be
convivial and gregarious in the extreme. And his
overdeveloped social conscience, he was no tight-
lipped, perpetually grim do-gooder who frowned on
fun. To the contrary, he enjoyed tipping a glass
now and then and was an incorrigible ham.
Ive decided that Im going to live like this for
some time to come. The freedom and simple 92
beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
He intended to invent an utterly new life for 23
himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in
unfiltered experience (23)
thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout
the laws of the state (28)
he arranged all his paper currency in a pile on the
sand - a pathetic little stack of ones and fives and
twenties- and put a match to it (29)
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its 87
and stands for self reliance beauty and th vagrant life I lead, more keenly all
the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and
star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and
difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any
paved highway and the deep peace of the wild to
the discontent bred by cities.