Section 3
Chapter 16,18,Epiloge
"The boy could hardly contain his excitement. He was in, at long last, about to be alone in the vast Alaska wilds." (Krakauer 162)
After months of preparation Chris is finally about to enter the Alaskan wilderness.
"A year earlier he'd subsisted for more than a month beside the gulf of California on five pounds of rice and a bounty of fish caught with a cheap rod and reel, an experience that made him confident he could harvest enough food to survive an extended stay in the Alaska wilderness, too." (Krakauer 162)
due to his experience in the California gulf he is confident that he can survive in the Alaskan wilderness as well.
"He probably surmised that if he bided his time until August, the Teklanika would subside long enough to be crossed." (Krakauer 188)
He believed that all he had to do was live off the land long enough for him to cross the Teklanika river.
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
"It can be interprated to mean that he was ready, perhapes, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilisation, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community." (Krakauer 189)
perhaps the trip to Alaska would have been his last and he would of returned to civilization and become a member of society.
"Into the Wild" Magic Bus
"an unnaturally bright object comes into view near the confluence of two smaller streams: Fairbanks bus 142. It has taken us fifteen minutes to cover the distance it took Chris four days to walk." (Krakauer 201)
They have just arrived at the Bus were chris had met his end.