Prompt: After reading Chapter 1 of Into the Wild, consider your first impression of Christopher McCandless. Based solely on the events and details presented in this opening chapter, do you believe McCandless truly understood the risks he was taking when he entered the Alaskan wilderness? Why or why not?

 Prompt: After reading Chapter 1 of Into the Wild, consider your first impression of Christopher McCandless. Based solely on the events and details presented in this opening chapter, do you believe McCandless truly understood the risks he was taking when he entered the Alaskan wilderness? Why or why not?


No, I don't think that he was fully aware of the risk that he was taking when he entered the Alaskan wilderness, because even right as he was about to leave the man's truck, he was still asking basic questions that someone truly trying to live in the wilderness should have known before they went into the forest.


Today in Class we discussed what you would need if you were to go on a through-hike, and then we read the first chapter of into the Wild.


Today, while reading, I understood what McCandless did to get into the wild, just the beginning.

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