Blogging Prompts for "Into the Wild" Project
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Blogging for Christopher McCandless For each chapter, respond to two or more prompts. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 Blog Options: Respond to an epigraph. Write about Chris’ first impression of Jim Gallien. Using the first two chapters, describe how Chris would respond to arriving at the bus and noticing “a real bad smell from inside”? (Krakauer 12) Respond to the notion that “[Chris] sometimes tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of time I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things.” (Krakauer 18) Chapters 4 and 5 Blog Options: Respond to an epigraph. Decide why Chris abandoned his car, burned his money, and got rid of his other possessions. Why did Chris change his pace and settle in Bullhead City, Arizona in order to maintain a full-time job at McDonalds? Chapters 6 and 7 Blog Options: Respond to an epigraph.
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Blogging for Christopher McCandlessFor each chapter, respond to two or more prompts.
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 Blog Options:
Respond to an epigraph.
Write about Chris’ first impression of Jim Gallien.
Using the first two chapters, describe how Chris would respond to arriving at
the bus and noticing “a real bad smell from inside”? (Krakauer 12)
Respond to the notion that “[Chris] sometimes tried too hard to make sense
of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A
couple of time I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that
kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things.” (Krakauer 18)
Chapters 4 and 5 Blog Options:
Respond to an epigraph.
Decide why Chris abandoned his car, burned his money, and got rid of his
other possessions.
Why did Chris change his pace and settle in Bullhead City, Arizona in order to
maintain a full-time job at McDonalds?
Chapters 6 and 7 Blog Options:
Respond to an epigraph.
What was Chris’ first impression of Ronald A. Franz?
Describe what Chris’ camp looked like in “Oh-My-God-Hot-Springs”?
Why did Chris limit the information he gave to Westerberg about his family?
Chapters 8, 9, and 10 Blog Options:
Respond to an epigraph.
How would Chris respond to a negative letter about his journey?
If Chris McCandless and Everett Ruess met, how would their views be similar
to one another?
