Who was Christopher McCandless? Christopher McCandless is a twenty-four year old adventurer. His childhood would be considered great to others, growing up in Washington DC in a wealthy neighborhood. He hated it. He never liked the idea of always being able to receive what he needed. His parents, Walt and Billie McCandless, tried to buy him a new car when he had one that works perfectly fine. McCandless never gave or received gifts because he thought nothing of it. If you had a bike and it works just fine and someone gave you a new one, would you be upset? What would you do with a new bike if you already have a perfectly good one that you like and have used for a while? Soon after, McCandless graduated from Emory University in Washington DC with honors. Right after graduation, he took all his savings and donated them to charity. Why he did that, maybe he wanted to be kind and help some people out. Or maybe he wanted to start completely over. McCandless knew what he was doing. He was hitchhiking for Alaska with nothing but a .22 caliber rifle and a ten-pound bag of rice and some other necessities. And he was gone.

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McCandless tries to paddle to the gulf coast, but is blocked by swamps. Once he gets to the gulf coast, he starts exploring the area around him in his kayak. He gets caught by immigration at the border of Texas and Mexico and is kept there overnight. The next day he explains to the police his situation and they let him go back to America. Whilst he goes through all these journeys, he writes down everything in a journal. He takes pictures of anything he sees that is worthy of keeping and sticks them in his journal. He buried his camera and stopped taking pictures because it was ruined. Because he stopped taking pictures, he also stopped writing in his journal. It wasn’t until he reached Alaska the next year that he started writing in his journal