D. Topic: Point of View - Literary Analysis to Universal Question

1. What is Krakauer's attempting to accomplish using multiple points of view when describing McCandless?
2. What is Krakauer's purpose for using other literary sources at the beginning of each chapter?
3. How might biases and points of view render differing accounts of another person or event?

C. Topic: New Identity - Open Ended to Universal Question

1. Why did McCandless create a new identity?
2. Is this desire to begin again, born anew, a common trait in humanity?

B. Topic: Immigration - closed Ended to Opend Ended Question

1.What were the primary factors which lead McCandless to leave Emory and separate from his family?
2. Are his reasons equal to reasons for change within the broader population?

McCandless & Thoreau #5

"Although McCandless was enough of a realist to know that hunting game was an unavoidable component of living off the land, he had always been ambivalent about killing animals. That ambivalence turned to remorse soon after he shot the moose. It was relatively small, weighing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred pounds, but it neverthless amounted to a huge quantity of meat."
                                                                           -Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 166

McCandless & Thoreau #4

"Unlike the most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs."
                                                                               -Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 67

McCandless & Thoreau #3

"On the face of it, bull head city doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstory, an ideologue who expressed nothing but contempt for the bourgeois trappings of mainstream America. McCandless, neverthless, took a strong liking to Bull head. Maybe it was his affinity for the lumpen, who were well represented in the community's trailer parks and campgrounds and laundromats; perhaps he simply fell in love with the stark desert landscape that encircles the town."
                                                                           -Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 39

McCandless & Thoreau #2

"Sometimes I wish I hadn't met you though. Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal."

                                                                             -Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, page 33