1. Bell Ringer: Wednesday, March 14th
In complete sentences, answer the follow question…you have your book now, so you can find quotes!
After reading chapter 1, use two adjectives to describe your impressions of Chris McCandless (Alex). Explain and support each adjective with a specific quotation from the chapter.

2. Based on what I’ve read so far in the text, I like Chris McCandless.
Statement:
Based on what I’ve read so far in the text, I like Chris McCandless.

3. Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Epigraph: Jack London -1876-1916
-Writer and “Jack”
of many trades

4. London travelled the Alaskan territory in 1897
Published in 1906 as a companion to Call of the Wild
About a dog/wolf hybrid’s travels and adventures in the territory

5. Why does Krakauer use this epigraph. How does it fit into this chapter
Why does Krakauer use this epigraph? How does it fit into this chapter? What does it reveal about McCandless?

6. -Writer of War and Peace and Anna Karenina
Chapter 3 Epigraph:
Leo Tolstoy
-Writer of War and Peace and Anna Karenina

7. Account of a young woman who marries a much older man
Published in 1859
Account of a young woman who marries a much older man
The woman learns that married life is more complex than she thought - certainly not all “happy”

8. Why does Krakauer use this epigraph. How does it fit into this chapter
Why does Krakauer use this epigraph? How does it fit into this chapter? What does it reveal about McCandless?

9. After graduating college, McCandless begins, “an epic journey that would change everything” (22). He saw his time in college as “an absurd and onerous duty” (22). In heading west he felt freed “from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess” (22). Using examples from the reading explain what he meant by this. What do you think of his motivation for leaving?