In Into the Wild, Chris’s relationship with his father was characterized by violence, abuse, and resentment. Aspects of this relationship likely influenced Chris’s behavior in Into the Wild: for example, Chris’s embarrassment of his parents’ luxuries and materialism influenced him to reject money.

Chris rejected his parents materialistic lifestyle because he thought his father used money to try to control Chris. He didn’t want to be controlled, so he rejected what was being used as leverage. He even went so far as to burn his cash when he set out on the road.

Hover for more information. Chris was disgusted with his parents’ materialism and moral hypocrisy. He felt that his father used money to manipulate people, and he himself felt manipulated to achieve and excel in high school and college. While he was close to his sister, Carine, he was a harsh critic of his parents.

During his trip, he had discovered that his father had maintained a relationship with his first wife and his other children, heading two households. He had a son with his first wife after McCandless was born, before Walt and Billie moved to the East Coast.

Chris McCandless donated his money to OXFAM America, which is a hunger relief organization. The ultimate irony in this fact is that, two years later, he himself died of starvation.

Carthage, SD

He told Westerberg he planned on staying until April 15, just long enough to put together a grubstake. He needed to buy a pile of new gear, he explained, because he was going to Alaska.

Friends described him as distant and cold. Chris was angry with his parents because of a secret he had learned from family in California—when Walt left Marcia for Billie, their romance did not end. In fact, Walt even had another child with Marcia after Chris was born.

In a tiny South Dakota town called Carthage, Wayne Westerberg describes Chris McCandless to Jon Krakauer, who the reader knows has come to interview him about McCandless. McCandless arrived a few weeks later, and Westerberg gave him a place to stay and a job on one of his grain elevators.

Westerberg never asked Alex why he changed his name. There was no work at the grain elevator for McCandless because Westerberg was in jail, so he left town and resumed a nomadic existence. 15.

How had Chris already been separating himself from his family? Chris refused to accept a new car and payment for law school from his parents. Chris confided to Gail Borah that he was close to one member of his family.

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Gallien was concerned because Alex had told him the only food in his backpack was a ten pound bag of rice. After Alex’s dead body was found, where was the corpse Taken to for an autopsy? 22 caliber and Gallien said that would only get a bear mad it wouldn’t be enough to kill it.

Chris McCandless wanted to know what it was like to live off the land in the wilderness, choosing to go with only ten pounds of rice, a rifle and a book on wild plants. He found out what it was like to live in the wilderness… lonely and hard.

Who is Wayne Westerberg and how do Wayne and Chris get along? Wayne Westberg is a Dakotan that becomes Chris’s best friend along his journey. Local color is introduced when a writer uses regional or colorful terms to present an image of a distinct area or culture.