Into the Wild_7

Chris McCandless isn't the only young and crazy man out there; many others have set out on the same adventures. For the most part these where men who didn't fit into society. They didn't just dream, they lived the dream. McCandless aka Alex was a man of intelligence, everybody loved him. One man had a dream to set out on his adventures with a good looking female friend. Even then he didn't succeed, however Alex had no interest in women, for the most part. Of all the men who set out on the adventures and lost their lives, McCandless was the most successful, surviving his 113 days.

The young hikers changed their names. One man called himself NEMO; this is thought to be a character from one of his favorite books. They took on other names as part of a new identity. They thought of themselves as kind of warriors. The men were out there to survive in the wilderness, nothing else. The males didn't want to be recognized by others, traveling without others.

Krakauer interrupted this story to view other points of view. This tells us that McCandless isn't just a crazy American, it allows the readers to view others in their tracks of life. The other men were careless with their adventures, surviving in pain. One man fed off of the pain and adrenalin of his forest adventures. McCandless did not want to harm nature. Another man ate a diseased caribou.