Over the years many people have contacted this website about information for their assignments or projects on the story Into The Wild. Because of the creative and inspiring papers submitted, we decided to create a section of the site for these people.

If you are interested in writing a piece on Chris McCandless or the story and would like it posted on this website, please contact us at mail(at)christophermccandless.info. Please submit the paper in a Word document with your name at the top and a picture if you like.

You can include a contact email address should visitors wish to contact you. Also, include your country of residence so we can see how far this story has reached.

To date, we have a number of papers submitted by visitors to the site and users of the forum. Below you will see a picture and a link to their papers.

All of us have a little bit of Chris in us. Who does not have a dream? Who does not want to go and pursue that dream? There are those that can and those that cannot. But, this is a place where you can voice these feelings and ambitions.

ps – all submitted essays are located under the menu for “Student Papers“.

• Into The Wild – Abby Slaubaugh
  Abby Slaubaugh3A Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild, believes that Chris McCandless is a fascinating and admirable young man along with… Read more: Into The Wild – Abby Slaubaugh
• Into The Wild – Adrienne Lindsey
  Response to Into the Wild – the Film Having heard bits and pieces of Christopher’s story years ago, I have only seen… Read more: Into The Wild – Adrienne Lindsey
• Into The Wild – Alex Ramos
  Ramos IAlex Ramos17 February 2016Admirable but Mistaken, Alexander Supertramp’s Virtue of IgnoranceIn this concise little essay an attempt to show Chris McCandless’… Read more: Into The Wild – Alex Ramos
• Into The Wild – Ali Ingah
  Where was I when I heard about Chris McCandles ? I was a freshman attending St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. At… Read more: Into The Wild – Ali Ingah
• Into The Wild – Allison Casey
  Throughout my school career, I always thought of summer reading as a way for teachers to torture their students. I never gained… Read more: Into The Wild – Allison Casey
• Into The Wild – Allyson Jarvis
  The life of Alexander SupertrampAllyson JarvisBethel Park High School AbstractThis paper follows Into the Wild’s main character, Chris McCandless along his path… Read more: Into The Wild – Allyson Jarvis
• Into The Wild – Angela Goethe
  Angela GoetheAP English Language and Composition/SPHS/USAImitates Life Imitates Art3/1/17Aristotle is known for proclaiming that art imitates life. Even long after his death,… Read more: Into The Wild – Angela Goethe
• Into The Wild – Anna Farrell
  Anna FarrellMr. LucasEnglish 11December 22, 2015 The Fulfilled Life of Chris McCandless Through the words of author Jon Krakauer comes a true… Read more: Into The Wild – Anna Farrell
• Into The Wild – Ashley Bouck
  Ashley Bouck3A3/1/2017Chris McCandless: Breaking Boundaries Chris McCandless was a lot of things, but he was not ignorant. At times he could have… Read more: Into The Wild – Ashley Bouck
• Into The Wild – Bridget Ringer
  Bridget Ringerringerbridget@gmail.comMarch 29, 2010 The Story behind Extremists In April 1992 a 24-year-old man walked into the Alaskan wilderness alone. His name… Read more: Into The Wild – Bridget Ringer
• Into The Wild – Caleb Springer
  Chris’s story seems liquefied. It drips and slips through my fingers, challenging me to constantly change the way I contain its substance,… Read more: Into The Wild – Caleb Springer
• Into The Wild – Camille Childress
  The book into the wild changed how I saw things. Now, I don’t think of so much want as of need. Chris… Read more: Into The Wild – Camille Childress
• Into The Wild – Caryn Mays
  Caryn MaysChris McCandless Young people want adventure. They want to get out of the sight of their parents and live their own… Read more: Into The Wild – Caryn Mays
• Into The Wild – Chandler Broadbent
  As adolescents are minds are so malleable and impressionable that we often believe everything we are told to be the truth. Twenty-four-year-old… Read more: Into The Wild – Chandler Broadbent
• Into The Wild – Cheyenne Santos
  Cheyenne SantosAP LanguageThe Unknown Nobleman:Some readers admire Chris McCandless (Alex) for his courageousness and noble ideas, while others fulminated that he is… Read more: Into The Wild – Cheyenne Santos
• Into The Wild – Chris Ingram
  ‘Remove The Bus’ by Chris IngramLots of you know the story of “Into The Wild”, Christopher McCandless/Alexander Supertramp and the Magic Bus… Read more: Into The Wild – Chris Ingram
• Into The Wild – Claudia Lamantea
  Into the Wild The true story of a dreamer Christopher Johnson Mccandless, also known as Alexander Supertramp, was an American traveller dead… Read more: Into The Wild – Claudia Lamantea
• Into The Wild – Colter Jones Robinson
  Noble Journey or Mindless DeathI approached a patch of pine trees as the meadow came to a dead end. Just about fifty… Read more: Into The Wild – Colter Jones Robinson
• Into The Wild – Cynthia Aguilera
  Into the Wild EssayCynthia Aguilera Into the Wild is about Chris McCandless and how he was a man of polarity. He is… Read more: Into The Wild – Cynthia Aguilera
• Into The Wild – Dale Moitz
  Chris McCandless lived life the way he wanted, and embraced it. There’s a lot of life lessons that could be learned from… Read more: Into The Wild – Dale Moitz
• Into The Wild – Dan Olivares
  Feeling invincible isn’t uncommon for any 24 year-old, but in the case of Chris McCandless, he convinced himself that he knew he… Read more: Into The Wild – Dan Olivares
• Into The Wild – Dave Korn
  As I strap my pack together beneath the unfurling gray Alaskan sky, sheets of wind billow across the marbled taiga into which… Read more: Into The Wild – Dave Korn
• Into The Wild – David Allen
  “A Glimpse of Nature Dreaming”:The Very Short Life of Alexander SupertrampInto the WildCommunity and Social Change – Prescott CollegeDavid C. Allen –… Read more: Into The Wild – David Allen
• Into The Wild – Diavonni Edington
  Into The Wild Essay If you ask a person what they think is the meaning of life you may get millions of… Read more: Into The Wild – Diavonni Edington
• Into The Wild – Erik Halfacre
  A long time ago, when I first became aware of the fact that someone had died alone in a bus only twenty… Read more: Into The Wild – Erik Halfacre
• Into The Wild – Felix Stern
  Ruhr-Universität BochumEnglisches Seminar Making Wilderness Reality:How Christopher McCandless Managed to Go Into the Wild Paper for the Class “Cultures of Ecology and… Read more: Into The Wild – Felix Stern
• Into The Wild – Jacob Isard
  Jacob Isard3-1-173AChristopher McCandless is a 23-year-old man with a very odd set of goals and morals that made him a unique individual… Read more: Into The Wild – Jacob Isard
• Into The Wild – Jennifer Little
  Courageous? Arrogance? Why Not Both? John Krakauer is the author of Into the Wild which is about the story of Chris McCandless… Read more: Into The Wild – Jennifer Little
• Into The Wild – Jessi Ekmark
  Jessi EkmarkMr. ShattoEnglish 410 October 2013Alexander Supertramp “Billie refused to look at the faxed photo until the dental ID had been completed… Read more: Into The Wild – Jessi Ekmark
• Into The Wild – Jessica McFadden
  McCandless and the Metamyth:The Wild Collisions of an Isolation Myth Inverted Jon Krakauer’s interest in the life story of Chris McCandless might… Read more: Into The Wild – Jessica McFadden
• Into The Wild – Jessica Robbins
  Jessica RobbinsProfessor Russell PotterEnglish 261: Northern Exposures3, May 2012 Not All Who Wander Are Lost: My Thoughts on Christopher McCandless You can… Read more: Into The Wild – Jessica Robbins
• Into The Wild – Jordana Gentile
  Out of the Normal Sitting at a desk, going to work from nine to five can get boring. Doing the same thing… Read more: Into The Wild – Jordana Gentile
• Into The Wild – Katelyn Gilmore
  Evidence of modern western civilizations’ pressure to abide to social expectations is increasing rapidly, notably with advancements in technology. Messages are now… Read more: Into The Wild – Katelyn Gilmore
• Into The Wild – Katie Brown
  Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is a story about a man named Chris McCandless who goes on a life threatening… Read more: Into The Wild – Katie Brown
• Into The Wild – Kelly Frazer-Modica
  Kelly Frazer-ModicaWriting and Recreation Cluster/Ashby/Week 8Into the Wild Chris McCandless was a determined young man. From an early age, he wanted to… Read more: Into The Wild – Kelly Frazer-Modica
• Into The Wild – Kelsey Massoglia
  Kelsey Massoglia5/6/2016Writing 3020 The Journey to Find True Happiness “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do… Read more: Into The Wild – Kelsey Massoglia
• Into The Wild – Kevin Wiklund
  Kevin Wiklund3/25/2012One of the first books I can remember feeling a strong connection to as a young man, was Jon Krakauer’s Into… Read more: Into The Wild – Kevin Wiklund
• Into The Wild – Kierre Henderson
  There has been some controversy concerning whether Chris McCandless was a hero who had a dream and wanted to chase it or… Read more: Into The Wild – Kierre Henderson
• Into The Wild – Kimberly Patton
  2017-01-21Escapism/Into the Wild book review by Kimberly PattonKimpatton730@gmail.com/@kimpatton730Blog: http://aprojectthatneedstweaking.blogspot.com/ My afternoon jog started out promising but fizzled after fifteen minutes. I took… Read more: Into The Wild – Kimberly Patton
• Into The Wild – Kylee Mclaughlin
  Nothing matters, you need to learn to live your life, alone and independent. Christopher McCandless lived on his own will, nothing will… Read more: Into The Wild – Kylee Mclaughlin
• Into The Wild – Lance Wood
  Into the WildBy: Lance WoodImagine, opening your eyes to discover the vas, unseen wilderness. Waking up in a place without any yes’s… Read more: Into The Wild – Lance Wood
• Into The Wild – Laura Doocy
  Life is a silly, important, hard concept to grasp .That is what this book taught me. Christopher Mccandless was a free sprit… Read more: Into The Wild – Laura Doocy
• Into The Wild – Leanne Longobardi
  Chris McCandless: Virtuous Philosophy of One’s LifeThe most common theme that is reiterated time and time again within Into the Wild is… Read more: Into The Wild – Leanne Longobardi
• Into The Wild – Lua Tomarelli-Lu
  Into The Wild Essay “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond… Read more: Into The Wild – Lua Tomarelli-Lu
• Into The Wild – Maya Bernadett
  Wilderness or Home: Finding a Sense of Belonging “Into the Wild” is the title of a book first written in 1996 by… Read more: Into The Wild – Maya Bernadett
• Into The Wild – Mike Miller
  Into the Wild In my language arts class, I read the book “Into the Wild.” The book is about a young man… Read more: Into The Wild – Mike Miller
• Into The Wild – Nathan Yocum
  Into the Wild I believe Chris McCandless was foolhardy in his decision to go into the wild in Alaska,and that he was… Read more: Into The Wild – Nathan Yocum
• Into The Wild – Olesya Nedorezova
  Olesya NedorezovaChris McCandless essay3/5/17Who is Chris McCandless? Chris McCandless had many different opinions about them, but all of them branch off of… Read more: Into The Wild – Olesya Nedorezova
• Into The Wild – Pepe
  Let me properly introduce myself: My name is Jose Luis Rangel , I go by the nickname of ” pepe “. Another… Read more: Into The Wild – Pepe
• Into The Wild – Pete Mason
  Remembering Christopher McCandless 20 Years LaterBy Pete MasonJon Krakauer’s nonfiction opus Into the Wild begins on the cover “In April 1992 a… Read more: Into The Wild – Pete Mason
• Into The Wild – Rachel Lin
  Rachel LinMcNevinEnglish 3 Period 111 December 2013The Transcendent Follower Transcendentalism is the philosophical and literary movement that highlights themes of nature and… Read more: Into The Wild – Rachel Lin
• Into The Wild – Radhika Arora
  Radhika AroraJuly 24, 2012 Rhetorical Appeals in Into the Wild What one says, thinks, or hears bears no significance if it is… Read more: Into The Wild – Radhika Arora
• Into The Wild – Rebecca LaMarche
  Matters of Independence:A Study of Self-Reliance in Into the Wild Rebecca LaMarche, May 2010 In Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, the… Read more: Into The Wild – Rebecca LaMarche
• Into The Wild – Rob Jones
  Rob JonesProfessor Amanda MooreEnglish 1B25 November, 2012 The Adventures of Alexander SupertrampBased on the 1996 non-fiction book by Jon Krakaver, the movie… Read more: Into The Wild – Rob Jones
• Into The Wild – Ruari Stewart
  Ruari StewartTranscendentalism Final ProjectEnglish 3 Transcendentalism is known as the philosophical movement as a protest to the general state of culture and… Read more: Into The Wild – Ruari Stewart
• Into The Wild – Ryan Ferace
  We have all had that thought. A thought… an almost calling, to understand what we are truly supposed to do with this… Read more: Into The Wild – Ryan Ferace
• Into The Wild – Salma Mousstamire
  Here is a paper from Salma Mousstamire who is French. We used google translate to have an english version for the site.… Read more: Into The Wild – Salma Mousstamire
• Into The Wild – Samuel Johnson
  Samuel Johnson3/1/17 Self-Peace, Solitude, and Serenity To man, some things are simply unthinkable. The outer reaches of the solar system, though now… Read more: Into The Wild – Samuel Johnson
• Into The Wild – Sara Johnson
  Infinite Possibilities A want for independence is something known to all teenagers. You no longer feel the need of assistance on your… Read more: Into The Wild – Sara Johnson
• Into The Wild – Simone
  Into The Wild Themes Identity: Into The Wild is all about identity. One of the mains reasons that Chris leaves his family… Read more: Into The Wild – Simone
• Into The Wild – Vicente Bryne
  Into the Wild By, John Krakauer, discusses a story of Chris McCandless, a man in his early 20’s whom ventures on a… Read more: Into The Wild – Vicente Bryne
• Into The Wild – Wendee Walker
  Chris/Alex or is it Alex/Chris You ascended, transcended, upended conventionsAbandoning all that was expectedLeaving the world in perplexed aweBoots, backpack, bags of… Read more: Into The Wild – Wendee Walker
• Into The Wild Film – Caleb Springer
  Since the release of the 2014 film Wild telling the story of Cheryl Strayed’s journey across the Pacific Crest Trail the previous… Read more: Into The Wild Film – Caleb Springer