Chris McCandless character chart

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Chapter and page #	Description/quote from novel	What impression you get about Chris with this character trait or description?
Chapter 1, page 4	“Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build, he claimed to be 24 years old and said he was from South Dakota.  He explained that he wanted a ride as far as the edge of Denali National Park, where he intended to walk deep into the bush and ‘live off the land for a few month.’”	Chris is not physically fit for walking into such a dangerous environment.  He seems a little crazy.
Chapter 2, p. 14, p. 12	“Virtually no fat remained on the body… At the time of the autopsy, McCandless’s remains weighed sixty seven pounds.” “S.O.S I need your help I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here I am all alone, this is no joke, in the name of God, plese remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.	He died of starvation and starvation only. He was very desperate and was on the verge of death so he was asking for help.
Chapter 3, p. 16, p. 16	“He was small with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer. There was something strange about the youngster’s eyes. Dark and emotive… and conveyed vulnerability…” “Wayne Westerberg… remembering the odd young man he knew as Alex.”	He has been traveling for a while and has been in need of food too. He was probably very cold and anxious to get some real food and water and rest for a little while before continuing on his journey. He was probably just returning from one of his adventures and he was probably a little weird because of his lack of communication with people.
Chapter 4, p.37, p. 27	“Malnutrition and the road have taken their toll on his body. Over 25 pounds lost. But his spirit is soaring.” “McCandless steered the Datsun off the pavement where it crossed a broad sandy was. He drove two miles down the riverbed to the south shore of the lake.”	He has been traveling for a while but he was persistent and never gave up and so he still had a lot of hope and life in him because of his personality. He probably drove so far because down the riverbed so it would be hard to find it and continue to track him on his journey.
Chapter 5, p.41, p. 38	“When he first started working, he was homeless, and he’d show up for work smelling bad.” “When his camera was ruined and McCandless stopped taking photographs, he also stopped keeping a journal, a practice he didn’t resume until he went to Alaska the next year.”	He does so much travelling around that he doesn’t care about the way that he smells. He found it unnecessary to keep a journal until he was all alone by himself in Alaska.
Chapter 6, p. 50, p. 48	“He was polite, friendly, and well groomed.” “McCandless made an indelible impression on a number of people during the course of his hegri.”	He took good care of himself throughout his trip and he also kept his kind and out-going personality too. He was a really nice kid and he left a good impression on all of the people he met through his journey.
Chapter 7, p.62, p. 62	“And in walks Alex with a big old backpack slung over his shoulder.” “During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle…”	He had been traveling for a while and he probably was in need for some money to get more supplies so he was looking for a job at Westberg’s business. He was used to all of the dirty things that he had to do on his journey around the country.
Chapter 10, p. 99, p. 98	“When Alex died, McCandless was wearing a blue sweat shirt printed with the logo of a Santa Barbara towing company.” “Last Sunday a young hiker, stranded by an injury, was found dead at a remote camp in the Alaskan interior.”	He probably wore out all of his other clothes and that is what he was left with to wear before he died. He probably just died and did not have his body identified so no one knew who he was.
Chapter 11, p. 107, p. 104	“He wasn’t antisocial – he always had friends, and everybody liked him – but he could go off and entertain himself for hours.” “Chris as a rapt eight year old in a yellow rain slicker on his first backpacking trip…”	He was really easy to get along with and he make do with what he had and still had fun even though he loved his friends. It was his first time going on a vacation that he needed to pack a backpack for.
Chapter 12, p. 118, p.119	“He got really emotional. He was almost crying, fighting back the tears, telling dad that even though they’d had their differences over the years, he was grateful for all the things Dad had done for him.” “During his course of his travels, Chris had acquired a machete and a .30-06 rifle…”	He was a very emotional guy and he loved his parents very much. He felt a bad because he never expressed how much he loved his dad so he just let it all out. He was very unprepared for his trip to Alaska and he needed to gather the supplies on his way there because he packed so poorly.
Chapter 13, p. 127, p. 128	“Chris as a seven year old in a pint size suit and crooked tie, standing beside Carine who is wearing a frilly dress and a new Easter hat.” “Standing five feet eight inches tall, Carine McCandless is the same height as her brother was, maybe an inch taller, and looks enough like him that people frequently asked if they were twins.”	He is very little and is most likely celebrating Easter. Chris was a short guy and he and Carine were a lot alike. This could also explain why they were able to get along so well because of their indifferences.
Chapter 16, p. 158, p. 159	“He was surprised, therefore, to find someone already in the steaming water, a young man who introduced himself as Alex.” “McCandless was candid with Stuckey about his intent to spend the summer alone in the bush, living off the land.”	He was trying to stay out of the cold and try to stay warm. He felt comfortable talking to the guy and the guy respected his plans.
Chapter 17, p. 174, p. 177	“McCandless mistakenly thought that it was impossible to reach the other side of the river.” “It’s an appealing setting, open and filled with light. It’s easy to see why McCandless decided to make this his base camp.”	He didn’t come prepared with a map so he was too lazy and tired to walk down the river to try to find a crossing that he would have found. This was the home in which McCandless had while he was in the wild.
Chapter 18, p. 188, p. 191	“After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, anced on a precarious edge.” “Extremely week. Fault of pot seed…”	He was struggling to find food in order to survive. He was so anxious to get food that he mistakenly ate the pot seed which than killed him.