Christopher McCandless

naturelover24 wrote:... older women sure!, but not younger..

Why?

tove wrote:sure sure, women like fancy clothes and champagne, facebook and Katy Perry

Some of them...
(who's Katy Perry? )

One reason there are more male members of this forum is because as males we identify with Chris at the personal level, we see ourselves in him, we intuitively understand his inner frustration with the world. More women I think feel a maternal instinct to want to rescue him and set him back on track...

naturelover24 wrote:.. wheres all the women??!?

Here's one.

But sorry, I prefer travelling and hiking on my own.

An article about the poisonous plant-theory:

http://foragersharvest.com/into-the-wild-and-other-poisonous-plant-fables/

it really became his own special madness. An obsession so powerful that it destroyed him. Well, that's not exactly what I meant. I don't mean to judge the guy and would not use words like madness or obsession. What destroyed him or his life was partly just some bad luck. I mean it COULD have gone w...

There are many perspectives that can be taken on this topic. They will vary widely depending on each persons unique background and point of view. We have learned that two differing perspectives can both be correct. Chris did not come from anything like the environment he died in. He was essentially...

Quote from Krakauer's book: As soon as classes ended in the spring of 1989, Chris took his Datsun on another prolonged, extemporaneous road trip. "We only got two cards from him the whole summer," says Walt. "The first one said, 'Headed for Guatemala.' When I read that I thought, 'Oh,...

Hi hotelgirl. You can find the answers to some of your questions in the book by Jon Krakauer. For the rest, we will hopefully get a bit more information when the new book "Back to the wild" will appear. McCandless did not stay 112 days at the bus. It's just the number of days he spent alon...

hotelgirl wrote:i wonder if theres any accuracy in that quote or if it was made up for the film?

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I guess the latter is the case.