Into the Wild

Detailed Summary & Analysis

Author’s Note Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Epilogue

Themes

All Themes The American Wilderness Risk and Self-Reinvention Arrogance, Innocence, and Ignorance Luck, Chance, and Circumstance Materialism and Idealism Isolation v. Intimacy

Quotes

Characters

All Characters Chris McCandless

Symbols

All Symbols Hunger and Starvation Rice Money Postcards, Notes and Letters Boots The Bus The Yellow Datsun Hitchhiking The Stampede Trail The Slabs and Oh-My-God-Hot-Springs Devil’s Thumb The Stikine Ice Cap Alaska The Teklanika River The Moose Chris’ Rifles Chris’ Backpack Chris’s Canoe Chris’s Map Chris’s Books Chris’s Journal Chris’s Camera and Photographs Chris’s Field Guide to Edible Plants Potato Seeds

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Introduction

Plot Summary

Detailed Summary
& Analysis

Author’s Note
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Epilogue

Themes

All Themes
The American Wilderness
Risk and Self-Reinvention
Arrogance, Innocence, and Ignorance
Luck, Chance, and Circumstance
Materialism and Idealism
Isolation v. Intimacy

Quotes

Characters

All Characters
Chris McCandless

Symbols

All Symbols
Hunger and Starvation
Rice
Money
Postcards, Notes and Letters
Boots
The Bus
The Yellow Datsun
Hitchhiking
The Stampede Trail
The Slabs and Oh-My-God-Hot-Springs
Devil’s Thumb
The Stikine Ice Cap
Alaska
The Teklanika River
The Moose
Chris’ Rifles
Chris’ Backpack
Chris’s Canoe
Chris’s Map
Chris’s Books
Chris’s Journal
Chris’s Camera and Photographs
Chris’s Field Guide to Edible Plants
Potato Seeds

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