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Module Description

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By Jon Krakauer

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.  Krakauer investigates and does his best to reconstruct the story of how McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Praise: "Powerfully illuminating. . . . Almost every section of the book is fascinating in its own right, and together the chapters make a rich picture. . . . An arresting portrait of depravity."
--The New York Times Book Review 

"This year's most audacious work of nonfiction. . . . A white-knuckle mix of true-crime reporting and provocative history."
--New York Post

Anchor Texts

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Online Copy of "Into the Wild" Whole Text
Audiobook Available online

Text Set

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NY Times Review
McCandless Writings
Original Newsbreak

Key Concepts

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Chapter 1 
unsullied 
sonorous 
meandered 

Chapter 2 
trough 
permafrost 
derelict 
anomaly 
environs 
enigmatic 

Chapter 3 
itinerant 
estranged 
nomadic 
unencumbered 
emancipated 

Chapters 4–7 
intermittent 
emasculated 
indolently 
espoused 
Chapters 8–10 
hubris 
requisite humility 
contrived asceticism 
theatrics 
enigmatic 
compulsive 
copious 
circuitous 
labyrinth 
flamboyant 
ephemeral 
overwrought 

Chapters 11–13 
taciturn 
mercurial 
“marches to a different drummer” 
nuance 
inequities 
sanctimonious hypocrite 
obliquely 
extemporaneous 
insurrectionists 
Chapters 14 and 15 
zeal 
demarcates 
penitent 
inebriated 
phantasmagoria 
madrigal 
extricated 
recumbent 
epiphany 
crampon 
volition 

Chapters 16–18 
Rubicon 
perambulation 
claustrophobic 
lacerations 
malevolent 
repertoire 
resilience 
insidiously 
Epilogue 
epilogue 
anomalous 

Close Reading 

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(2) Into the Wild Discussion ?s

Assessments

Resources

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(7) Final Into the Wild Paper Prompts
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