LibGuides: Tracks vs. Charlie's country: Into the Wild (film)

Into the Wild (film)

Into the Wild (IMDB)
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Into the Wild (text) by Jon Krakauer
For reference purposes.
Quotes from the movie "Into the Wild"
Photo's from "Back into the wild"
Rare photo's from Chris McCandless' adventure.

Study Guides

Teach with Movies: Into the Wild
Written by Mary RedClay February 2012.
Into the Wild (film) Mr Chettle's Classroom
Sparknotes: Into the Wild
Into the Wild Reflection Teaching plan
Write Alaska, no date indicated.

Media

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Articles

In Alaska's wilds, the mystic hiker's bus draws pilgrims to danger and death
Guardian article [January 2014]. The lonely death of Chris McCandless inspired a book and Sean Penn's film Into the Wild. Now, more than 20 years on, hundreds follow in the idealist's trail – but locals wonder if it has all gone too far?
I Now Walk Into the Wild
Chris McCandless walked away from the world, drawn by a lethal flirtation with the power to be free of everything. By Chip Brown, The New Yorker, February 8, 1993
The beatification of Chris McCandless: From thieving poacher into saint
Quite a negative article on the glorification of Chris Mc Candleness by the media. September 2016.
The Chris McCandless Obsession Problem
December 2013.
Every year, scores of Into the Wild fans tackle a dangerous river crossing to visit the last home of Alaska’s most famous adventure casualty. Why are so many people willing to risk injury, and even death, to pay homage to a controversial ascetic who perished so young?

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. Thoreau is best known for his book Walden (1854), a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. [source]

" When I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "

Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London ( 1876 – 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. Best known for his novels "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang".

“He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.” Into the Wild.