Into the Wild Acrostic

Katherine Hunsaker

English 8-3

3/8/10

Acrostic

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Interestingly compelling to all kinds of people who want to escape from their confusing, annoying, and overwhelming society or community. It’s hard to put down because of Chris McCandless’s unique way of thinking and acting. The nature of the wilderness attracts you to explore the forest with Alex Supertramp and experience all his emotions and physical activities.

Naturally a tragic story of the boy who thought he could do anything with his well-developed skills but only to find out this was not possible. This is why only his remains were found in an old, abandoned bus in the middle of Alaska. His family he had a grudge against cared about him greatly, but he didn’t care what they thought, he just wanted to escape reality.

Tremendously strange character in the book, but you either develop a strong liking for his charisma or a deep down desire to question his actions and his personality. You get the feeling he had some problems but you want to imitate his actions at the same time. Your mind is split between everything about him, his characteristics, his actions, the way he talks, his appearance, his stories, and his desires.

Often intriguing, but there were times where the author talked about other people’s experiences with his mountains, including his own, that you would rather not hear but rather get on with the story. Overall, the story was well-told and it’s a story you won’t forget. I recommend to everyone to read this story, for it gives you a desire to experience the one of the greater things in life, nature.

Towering feelings of exhilaration, inspiration, and exaltation. This book shares with you the confused but logical thoughts that Chris McCandless once had. When he goes to Alaska to survive in the wilderness, your not left behind, the description and elaboration of the facts in the book makes it feel like your in his shoes.

He, Alex Supertramp, gave money to the starving, but he died later from starvation. This arouses suspicion of suspecting his own death. Because what are the chances he gives all that he has to a charity for starving people and then he dies of starvation himself.
Effective on everyone who read the book. Into the Wild makes you have second thoughts about your life situation. Like if you need to be making the best of your life and taking risks, instead of worrying about getting into a good college. Sadly, society has taken me over because all I can worry about is getting into a good college, being successful, getting a job with a good salary. The book made me realize I need to kick back and enjoy being a kid because I’m only in 8^th grade.

Wilderness is the key of the story, Chris wanted to be alone in his own world. Most people like the idea of going and living off land but hate it once they got out there. Chris was different, he knew the basics of living. He knew the essentials for healthy life.

Initially a very popular book, well liked by the readers, and also documented into a movie. The movie is absolutely fantastic, I cannot decide wich I like better, the movie or the book. But I know they represent the hardships of Chris McCandless and Alex Supertramp. They both have the same message too, that happiness only comes from human relaions, which I believe in strongly.

Life or Death? No one knows which is better. Most people think life but this is only because life is the only thing they’ve experienced. Chris McCandless didn’t know what was better, he just decided to live life to the fullest instead of waiting around to see what death looked like. He hitchhiked all the way to Alaska. He had no money, no food, he was all on his own.

Defiance of society was his motto. “Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ‘Cause “The west is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white north. NO longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Alexander Supertramp

May 1992