He is the owner of a grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota. He camps with them on the beach for a week or so before continuing North along the coast to Seattle.Ĭhris soon meets Wayne Westerberg who picks him up hitchhiking in September. In August, a pair of “rubber tramps,” Jan Burress and Bob, spot Chris picking berries by the side of the road in Northern California. He burns the rest of his money, then hitchhikes around the Northwest, often living on the streets. In July, Chris abandons his car in the Mojave Desert after a flash flood wets the engine. He renames himself “Alexander Supertramp” and never contacts his family again. In June, Chris drives away in his beloved Datsun. Chris lets them think he is interested in law school, but instead, donates $24,000 of his life savings to a charity that fights poverty and hunger.
He is disgusted by their attempts to control him and by what he sees as their immoral and materialistic lifestyle. His father tries to control Chris, who is fiercely independent, and Chris resents it deeply.Īfter graduating with honors from Emory University, in 1990, Chris tells his sister, Carine, that he intends to cut off all relations with his parents. He feels betrayed by and angry at his parents, Walt and Millie. Tragically, he is found dead at twenty-four inside a bus in the Alaskan wilderness.Īfter graduating from high school, Chris discovers that his father secretly had a second family during his childhood. A gifted athlete and scholar, Chris documents his two-year adventure across the United States in photographs and a journal. Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is the true story of Chris McCandless, a young Emory University graduate from a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
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