English II - Into the Wild

Jim Gallien

The man who picks up Alex at the beginning at the of the book

Where was Chris’s body found & by who?

An abandoned bus by a group of hunters & hikers

What did Chris die from?

Starvation

Wayne Westerberg

A convicted felon who employed Chris & then became his close friend

Jon Krakauer

Author of Into the Wild

Christopher J. McCandless

Young adult born into a middle-class family who left his home to indulge himself into the Alaskan wilderness

What did Chris mostly do once he disappeared?

Hiking, wandering alone in national parks, & random farm work

Jan Burres & her boyfriend Bob

Who Chris lived with after leaving Arizona & went to Slabs, California, after leaving he sent them lots of postcards

Ronald A. Franz

A recovering alcoholic & veteran who looked after Chris, Chris urged him to live a more free-spirited life

Everett Ruess

A young man born into a middle-class family & left his home to explore the desert, most comparable to Chris

Alexander Supertramp

The name Chris gives himself after his disappearance

How did Krakauer write about Chris’s life?

Interviews with people Chris encountered & the journal-snapshot album of his journeys

Gail Borah

Chris’s on-again, off-again girlfriend

Gene Rosellini, John Mallon Waterman, & Carl McCunn

The people Krakauer compares Chris to

Tuesday, April 28, 1992

Chris set off into the Alaskan wilderness

Gordon Samel

Hiker who found Chris dead in his sleeping bag

Denali National Park

Where Chris’s body was found inside of a bus

Carthage, South Dakota

What Chris calls his home & where he sent his mail back to

Annandale, Virginia

Where Chris was raised

Davis Gulch

The route marked as Everett’s last location before his disappearance

Nemo

What Everett carved on canyon walls & in mud, means “nobody” in Latin

Sam McCandless

Chris’s half brother who was called to identify Chris’s body

Carine McCandless Fish

Chris’s younger sister who grew up very close to him, owns a small business with her husband

Billie McCandless

Chris’s mother who Walt had a child with while he was still married

Walter “Walt” McCandless

Chris’s father who was an intelligent engineer who had an affair

Marcia

Walt McCandless’s first wife with whom he had 6 children with & cheated on

Ken Sleight

Spent time investigating Everett Ruess & concluded he drowned

Eric Hathaway

A close friend of Chris’s on the track team

Kris Maxie

A female teammate of Chris’s on the track team, his closest friend in high school

Kai Sandburn

A woman who Krakauer stayed with before climbing the Devil’s Thumb

Gaylord Stuckey

A motor-home delivery man who gave Alex a ride to Fairbanks

John Franklin

A British naval officer who led an expedition into Alaska of many & overall grew responsible for 140 deaths, known as the man who ate his shoes, notable because of his lack to ever learn survival skills

Roman Dial

A doctorate who has been to Alaska many times & went with Krakauer to visit the bus Chris died on

Will Foresberg

Owned cabins near where Chris was staying & believed Chris wrecked them

What was a possible reason for Chris’s death?

Poisoned by potato seeds

August 18th, 1992

Chris’s assumed death date

112

How many days was Chris in the wild for?

Loren Johnson

Billie’s father who is similar to Chris

Emory

The university Chris attended after high school

Fairbanks bus 142

The bus Chris’s body was found on