He whips up emotional tension as McCandless gets ready to say to leave his friends and commit himself to a life in the wild. Here, Krakauer also raises questions of morality and selfishness. At the end of April 1992, Burres and her boyfriend as well as Westerberg and Borah get postcards bidding them goodbye forever and realising that McCandless is gone forever in the wild.Ĭhapters 6 and 7 rely on a similar narrative structure: McCandless displays some warmth or sociability and then retreats. A week later, he writes a letter to them from Montana.
Borah realises hat he is crying as he says goodbye to her. In the morning, McCandless’s friends bid him goodbye. The trio drinks a lot of Jack Daniels, one of McCandless’s favorite whiskeys.
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On his last night with Westerberg and Borah, McCandless plays piano in a bar full of Carthage locals. Krakauer then studies McCandless’s character minutely, concluding that he was attracted to nature because of a desire for human contact which was too strong to be satisfied by other people. Apparently, McCandless had marked up passages of Leo Tolstoy’s ' Kreutzer Sonata', a story about the renunciation of sex. Krakauer also finds out that McCandless never had a girlfriend and may have remained celibate throughout. The narrator describes McCandless’s feelings about his parents who were oppressive, secretive, and irrational. Westerberg’s mother also tells the narrator that she found McCandless very loving even though she had met him once. The narrator also meets Gail Borah, Westerberg’s girlfriend, who reveals McCandless’s affection for his sister Carine and his disagreements with his family. He learns that McCandless wanted to stay there till April to earn money for his trip to Alaska. Two months after McCandless’s dead body was found the narrator visits Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota, to know about his last days at Westerberg’s grain elevator. In grief, Franz drank a bottle of whiskey and broke his hard-won sobriety. He stayed there until he got the news of McCandless’s death from a pair of hitchhikers while in town to receive his mails. Krakauer informs the reader that Franz followed McCandless’s advice and bought a camper, moved to McCandless’s old campsite in the Salton Sea. In the letter, McCandless urges Franz to embark on a traveler’s life, and scolds him for enjoying the world lesser than it has to offer to him.
Here, Krakauer pauses tracking McCandless' journey and informs the reader that Franz received a letter, narrating it in its entirety, from McCandless in early April. Franz, during one of their drives, asks McCandless if he can adopt him as his grandson, but McCandless defers the conversation till his return from Alaska. Franz goes to Colton, picks McCandless, gives him supplies, and helps him depart for Carthage where McCandless says he will work for Wayne Westerberg again. His next letter to Franz comes after his arrest and release for jumping a train to a small California town called Colton. By late February, McCandless informs Burres and Franz that he has jumped trains to Seattle. Later, McCandless writes letters to him saying that work is hard to come by in San Diego. Eventually, Franz takes McCandless to San Diego where he attempts to get work. The old man teaches McCandless leatherwork skill and McCandless makes a monogrammed belt with symbols from his life as a tramp. McCandless lectures Franz about his sedentary lifestyle. Franz tries to persuade McCandless to take up a job but McCandless says that he has a plan. Franz buys McCandless food and shows keen interest in his stories and theories about life and society. Franz lost his wife and child while he was overseas, so he treats McCandless as his own son. McCandless shows Franz the hot springs where he camps in exchange for a ride and soon the two become friends. Franz visits Krakauer and tells him that he and McCandless met while camping at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park near the Salton Sea. Franz, a recovered alcoholic and Vietnam veteran, who seeks a copy of a 1993 magazine article about Christopher McCandless’s death. The narrator and author of Into the Wild gets a letter from Ronald A.
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