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Author’s Note
• What does the author’s note tell us? – Timeline and Punchline – Tidbits of the journey/experience – Mistakes will plague the experiment – AsceGcism—deny worldly pleasures for spiritual elevaGon – Themes of fathers/sons and young men/challenges – InterpretaGons of Chris McCandless
Strategies
• Strategies – Start with the end – Open chapters with notes/quotes/excerpts – Nonlinear—jumps in Gme and space—pieces of puzzle—put together fragments like detecGve or psychologist – Language—terse, uGlitarian, concrete imagery, stats/facts/maps/photos, travelogue
Chapter 1
• Into the wild (April 28, 1992) • What does first notecard establish? 3 • Jim Gallien – Thoughts on Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) 4 – Problems with journey into the wild 5 – Foreshadow—references to water
Chapter 2 • Out of the wild • Reset of Naturalism (Jack London) and Transcendentalism (Henry David Thoreau)
• What does Alaska conjure/connote? • Origin of the Fairbanks Bus 142 10 – Stampede Trail between Teklanika River (East) and Sushana River (West)
—Pocket of Denali NaGonal Park, Outside of Healy
Chapter 2
• The discovery (Sept 6, 1992) – Irony – 6 people / 3 parGes – Facts of the end • Blue sleeping bag • 67 pounds • SOS note
Chapter 3
• What does the West conjure/connote? • Carthage 15,18 • Cabaret 16 • Wayne Westerberg 16,19 • RevelaGons of Chris / Alex – Tramps 17 – Physical 16 – EmoGonal 18 – Familial 19
• Car—Roadtrip/Odyssey—July/Aug 1990 22
Chapter 4
• Southwest journey – July 1990 – February 1991
• What are the associaGons of desert? 25 • Fate of yellow Datsun 26 – Guitar – Brush with water and next move – Ironic side story of car 27
Chapter 4
• Reference to Thoreau – What does he mean by “statutes of a higher order” and “moral responsibility?” 28
• Tone of journals 29 – How affects your take on Chris?
• Jan Burres and Bob 30 (we will see again) – Look for pagern in people Chris meets
• Canoeing the Colorado 32 – Trouble gehng out / Almost drowns
• How do you define meaning in life? 37
Chapter 5
• “The dominant primordial beast” vs “the bourgeois trappings of mainstream America”
• Bullhead City 39 – Job at McDonald’s and House at Charlie’s
• Niland 43 (December 1991) – The Slabs – Jan and Bob again – Tracy 44
• Irony of Jack London 44
Chapter 6
• Thoreau quote – what’s it mean? 47 • Salton Sea and Oh-‐My-‐God Hotsprings 48, 50 • Ronald Franz leger 47 (January 1992) – Backstory 50 – Belt 51
• Chris – 24 years old (Feb 12) 53 – Riding the rails (Missions and Bulls) 53 – Avoids deep emoGonal inGmacy 55
Chapter 6
• Leger to Ron 56 – Advocates “radical change” 57 • Staying vs. moving? • Role of relaGonships?
– Portrait of Ron 59 – Ron’s view of god – fair? 60