Into the Wild Chapter One Vocabulary
Chapter One Vocabulary • Protruded – To stick out • Muskeg – Boggy land • Crackpot – somebody regarded as eccentric or wildly imaginative • Congenial – Agreeable, pleasant, or friendly • Scrounged – To beg or borrow without intending to repay
Chapter One Vocabulary • Summits – Highest points • Trailhead – Start of a trail
Picture of Chris McCandless
Notes/ Summary Chapter One • On April 27, 1992, Chris McCandless began his journey into the Alaskan wilderness. He was picked up hitchhiking by ___________. Chris carried with him a backpack that weighed about __________ pounds, cheap hiking boots, and a _________ caliber rifle. Chris had 20 pounds of __________ in his backpack. That was all the food he brought. The trail he wanted to go to was the __________ ______. The name Chris gave to Gallien was ________. He said it had been _________ since he had spoken to his family. Galien drove him _______ miles off the highway. Galien gave Chris a pair of rubber boots and two sandwiches.
Vocabulary Chapter 2 • Ramparts – A fortified embankment • Escarpments – A steep ridge • Antimony – Brittle metallic chemical element • Amalgam – Mixture • Transected – Cut across something • Permafrost – Permanently frozen land • Oxidized – Rusted
Chapter Two Vocabulary • Undeterred – Not restrained from taking action • Opaque – Images cannot be seen through it. • Contumacious – Resistant to authority • Fording – To cross in shallow water • Implication – Indirect suggestion • Enigmatic – Hard to understand
Chapter Two Notes • The Stampede Trail was blazed in the 1930’s by _______ _______. Three buses were brought out to ___________________. Typically the bus may not have a visitor for six or seven months, but on the day Chris’ remains were found, ___________ separate groups came by. Many people hunt ________ in that area. Chris had left a note taped to the bus ________. His remains were found in a blue _________ _____. There were ____ rolls of film, the SOS note, and a diary, with ______ entries. At the time of the autopsy, Chris’s remains weighed _______ pounds.
Chapter Three Vocab • Mawkish – Sentimental • Nomadic – Wanderer • Contrite – Repentant • Monkish – Reclusive and plain • Odyssey – A series of travels • Unencumbered – Not burdened
Chapter Three Notes Wayne Westerberg lives in ___________, ______ ________. He met Chris when Chris was ________________. What is the difference between leather tramps and rubber tramps? Rubber tramps have ______________, while leather tramps ______________. Some kinds of jobs Chris worked for Wayne included ______________. Wayne was in prison for selling ______________. Chris gave Wayne _________________ as a present. Chris was raised in __________, __________. His dad worked for ____________ in the 1960’s and then started _________ __________ _____. Chris went to school at __________ ______. Chris’s parents offered to buy him a ______ ______ for graduating from college. He refused because he had his own car. Chris unofficially changed his name to Alexander Supertramp.
Chapter Four Vocabulary • Detrital – Debris or rock fragments • Tarpaulin – A cover used to protect or shield things • Egress – Exit • Emasculated – To weaken • Austerity – Severity or plainness • Jetty – A dock or other barrier to protect • Unsavory – Distasteful or immoral
Notes Chapter 4 • In the _______ _____area, Forest Rangers found Chris’s car with a tarpaulin over it. Inside of the car they found a guitar, $4.93, a football, old clothes, a fishing rod and tackle, a new electric razor, a harmonica, jumper cables, 25 lbs. of rice, and the keys to the car. The car ran great and was used later as a DEA car. He had parked the car and was camping when a rainstorm resulted in a _________ ______. The car would not start. Chris left it.
Notes Chapter 4 • Chris hiked around Lake Mead and suffered from ______ ______. ______ _____ gave him a job, but did not pay him. While Chris was picking berries, _____ _____ and _____ picked him up. He stayed with them a week. His parents hired a private investigator to look for him.
Notes Chapter 4 • Chris bought a used __________. He paddled down the ________ _____. In a postcard he sent to Wayne, he said War and Peace is a very _______ and highly _______ book. Chris sneaked into ________. Chris reached the ocean thanks to a tow from Mexican _____ ______ guides. He spent New Years watching the moon rise over ______ _______. He abandoned his canoe on _________. He had not seen another person for ______ days. He lived on ____ of ______ and what he pulled from the sea.
Notes Chapter 4 • This convinced him he could survive in the Alaskan bush. Chris learned to not get robbed by ________ his money. By February, Chris had lost _____ pounds. On Feb. 24, he returned to Detrital Wash and recovered the items he had buried there. He went to _______ ______ and again buried his equipment. He discovered it did not work good to bury a _________.
Vocabulary Chapter Five • Oxymoronic – Expression with two contradictory words: A wise fool…..Legal murder….. Smart 9 th grader J • Discernible – To be able to see or notice something unclear • Ideologue – Following your beliefs to an extreme • Bourgeois – Capitalist…..those who have the money to control how to make more money.
Vocabulary Chapter 5 • Garrulous – Talks too much • Denuded – Stripped by erosion • Snowbirds – People who travel to warmer places in the winter • Primordial – Basic
Chapter Five Summary • From the time Chris broke his camera until he went to Alaska, he also ______ journaling. He lived in ____________ ______ for two months, the longest he stayed in any one place after leaving Atlanta. He worked at a __________. He ended up __________ in a vacant mobile home. He lived with Jan and Bob at the Slabs, which was an _____ _______ ______. Jan and Bob were vendors at a _______ _________. Chris would not accept money from them for working. Instead, he took several _____ _____ ______ and some ______ ______.
Chapter Six Vocabulary • Anachronistic – Not appropriate to the times. • Indelible – Unforgettable • Prodigious – Sizable • Placard – Small card or metal plaque • Sedentary – Not moving, staying in one place • Schlepp – Move something with difficulty
Chapter Six Vocabulary • Unalloyed – In a pure state; absolute • Bajada – A broad plain at the base of a mountain. • Destitute – Lacking money and the necessities of life. • Hotshot – A very fast freight train
Chapter Six Notes • The Salton Sea is a virtually a landlocked ________. It was formed by an engineering error. It was in Salton City that Chris met _______ ________, an 80 year old man. They became friends. Chris showed him where he was staying, _____ ____ ____ ____ ________. There were nearly 200 people living out of their vehicles there. Ron’s wife and only child had been killed by a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve, 1957. Ron was an accomplished _______ _______. Chris went to _____ ______. After that he rode the rails up to _________. On his way back to California from Seattle, he was caught riding the rails by a ________ or railroad official. Chris planned on going back to Carthage. Ron offered to drive him to _________ _______, _________. Ron liked Chris so much, he asked Chris if he could ________ him. Chris said they would talk when he got back from Alaska. Chris was making an impression on others, but was avoiding developing long lasting relationships. Alex hopes to depart for Alaska no later than ________. He encourages Ron to live life to the fullest and lead a _________ life. Ron did just that. He bought a Duravan and started living out of his van on the _________. Ron learned of Alex’s death from two _____________.
Chapter 7 Vocabulary • Grubstake – Getting money in advance. • Surfeit – An excess amount. • Conjecture – A conclusion or statement made without evidence. • ascetic – Choosing self‐denial as a personal or religious discipline • Ambivalence – Uncertainty due to a mental conflict
Chapter 7 Notes/Summary • Chris had arrived in Carthage during _______, saying he was ready to work. He said he was staying until _____ __. He wanted to be in Fairbanks by the end of April. Wayne tried to get Chris to work a _________, but he was not very good at it. Chris also lacked ________ _____. Chris and Wayne’s girl friend, _________ ______, became fast friends. The only member of Chris’s family he talked much about was his sister, __________. Both Chris and his father were ______ _____ and ________. Chris said he was going to “___________ them as his parents.” Chris did not have many girlfriends growing up. There was a copy of the book _________ found on the bus.
Chapter 7 Notes/Summary • Wayne thought Alaska was supposed to be Chris’s last big _________. Chris would not let Wayne buy him a plane ticket to Alaska. He said that would be __________. Chris met Wayne’s mom. The two of them got along great. They talked at length about different _________. When the workers got together to celebrate Chris’ last day at work, they were surprised when he began playing the ____________. Chris left Carthage on April 15, 1992. He had nearly $1000 tucked in his boot. Chris sent a post card saying he was going to jump the border near the town of ____________.
Chapter 8 Vocabulary • Opprobrium – Scorn, shame, disgrace • Opined – Stated an opinion; spoke out • Epistle – A long formal letter • Greenhorn – Novice, beginner, lacking experience • Recondite – Something only understood by an expert • Eremitic – A hermit • Equanimity – A calm temperament even under stress
Chapter 8 Vocabulary • Crags – Rocky part of a mountain • Flamboyant – Showy, done to be noticed by others.
Chapter 8 Summary/ Notes • Many people thought Chris was a kook, who could easily have survived if he had been prepared. Many felt he was a ________________.(use a vocab term) There had been an idealist in the village of Tanana in the 1970’s, who intended on spending the rest of his life “___________ _____ ______.” Gene Rosellini was also known as the ________ __ _______ ______. He was a smart man who decided to live the most basic life. He used the most ___________ of tools. His goal was to live life like a ________ _____ man. John __________ was born in Washington D.C. When he was 16, he climbed Mt. McKinley, or ____________. John’s parents had divorced when he was a teen. John moved to Alaska to live with an uncle. John became an expert mountaineer. He then became extremely unbalanced and ended up attempting a solo climb. He was last seen on ________, _______. Carl McCunn was a __________ who moved to Alaska to work on the pipeline. His story is so funny because he hired a man to fly him into a remote lake near the Coleen River, 75 miles NE of Fort Yukon, but _____________________________. He had a chance to be rescued, but only raised one arm to a plane that was circling overhead. This signal meant he was _______________.
Chapter 9 Vocabulary • Defile – A narrow pass between mountains • Potsherds – Broken pieces of pottery • Ephemeral – Short lived and leaving no lasting trace • Bohemian – Somebody who does not live like typical members of society • Brazen – Showing boldness and a complete lack of shame. • Insinuated – To worm your way into something
Chapter 9 Vocabulary • Meterioc – Very fast or brilliant • Atavistic – Uncivilized and instinctive • Incommunicado – Prevented by circumstances from communicating with others • Hogan – Navajo house • Curraghs – A small boat with a wicker frame
Chapter 9 Notes/Summary • Davis Gulch is an ___________. There are 900 year old ________ and _________ on its walls. The area surrounding Davis Gulch has _______ colored sand. Everett Ruess signed his name as __________ on the doorway of an Anasazi granary. Everett began hitchhiking at the age of ______. He would be described as a ___________ tramp. He says in a letter that he will always be a “_______ _______ __ _____ ___________.” Ruess took chances climbing cliffs and twice was almost killed by a ______ _____. He told his family he changed his name ______ times. They were ______ ______, _______ ______, and _________ _____. The only traces of Everett were his two _________. Some investigators believe he was killed by _______ ________. His father thinks he called himself Nemo to honor ________ _______. Some people think he moved onto a _______ ________. One other theory is he __________.
Chapter Nine Summary/Notes • The Irish monks would go to an island named Papos, which was off the coast of __________. The went there to find ______ _______. A few Norwegians showed up and the monks moved to __________.
Chapter 10 Vocabulary • Flora – Plant life found in a specific area. • Fauna – Animal life found in a specific area. • Cryptic – Deliberately mysterious and seeming to have a hidden meaning.
Chapter 10 Summary • Alex’s remains were identified by Jim Gallien. The authorities had a hard time identifying his remains and tracking down his true identity. Wayne heard about Alex’s death listening to _____ ______. The authorities contacted Chris’ step brother, _______.
Chapter Eleven Vocabulary • Rapt – Completely happy • Arcane – Difficult or impossible to understand • Mercurial – Lively and unpredictable • Rancor – Resentment • Wanderlust – Strong desire for traveling • Panache – A dashing style
Chapter 11 Vocabulary • Relish – Enjoy something tremendously • Oppression – Subjecting a person or people to harsh or cruel form of domination • Vagrant – Homeless or a wanderer • Gregarious – Very friendly and sociable • Incorrigible – Impossible to keep under control
Chapter 11 Summary • The McCandless’ live in ____________ _____, _______. Walt works in the field of ________ _______ _______, or SAR. Walt earned money in college playing ________. The launch of _______ __ started the aerospace industry. Walt had _____ other children before he married Chris’s mom. When Chris was six, his dad was offered a job at _______. The family would go on trips around the country. They bought a _______ to stay in. Chris’s mom, ______, was born in ______ ______, ______. Chris earned one F in school. This was in physics class because he did not follow ________. Chris was good in sports, but was frustrated until he took up ____________. During his senior year in high school, he became obsessed with ________ _________ in South Africa. Chris would frequently hand out food to ___________ people. As an eight year old, he sold __________. Later, he started a business selling _________. When he was a junior, he was hired to get siding jobs and kitchen remodels. He had _____ other students working under him. In a few months, he had put _________ in his bank account.
Chapter Twelve Vocabulary • Dollop – Small amount of something • Turmoil – Confused disturbance • Clemency – An act of mercy • Choler – A bad temper • Pellucid – Transparent • Scrupulously – Very precise
Chapter Twelve Summary/Notes • Chris gave his dad an expensive ____________ for his birthday. When Chris came back from his first solo trip, he had lost ______ pounds. On that trip, he had gotten lost in the _________ _______ and nearly died of dehydration. Chris wrote for the school ____________ while at Emory. After his freshman year, Chris worked as a __________ ________ for his parents. After his sophomore year he worked as a delivery driver for _________. Chris kept track of his income like it was a ________ and the money was the way to keep _________. Chris had found his dad had another _______ with his ex, __________. He had been living a ________ _______. Chris said the secrets that had been kept from him made him feel like his childhood seemed like _________. While he was an assistant editor for The Emory Wheel, Chris wrote many _____________. After his junior year, he said he was going to _____________, but ended up driving to ___________. Chris thought his mom that he was a ____________.
Chapter Twelve Notes • He donated the balance of his savings account to __________. His mom said she woke up one night in July of 1992 because she had a dream he said to her, “________ ________ _____”
Chapter Thirteen Vocabulary • Pensive – Deeply thoughtful • Recalcitrant – Resistant to authority • Gregarious – Friendly • Delineating – To describe or explain something in detail • Anorectic – Having a total loss of appetite
Chapter Thirteen Summary • The name of Chris and Carine’s dog is ________. Chris wanted to take him with on his odyssey, but his parents said no, because he had been _______ __ _ ____. Carine is about _____ ____ taller than her brother was. At the time the book was written, Carine was ____ years old. She owns a business, _______, that repairs cars. Her husband’s name is _____ _____. Chris and Carine were _____ close to each other. _____ told Carine her brother had died. On the way to her parents house, she had Fish stop at a ______ for her. _____ and _____ flew to Alaska to pick up Chris’s remains, which had been ________.
Chapter Fourteen Vocabulary • Melodramatic – Greatly exaggerated • Zeal – Great enthusiasm • Existential – Your moral stance in respect to the rest of the world • Inveigled – Persuade by charming • Diorite – A dark coarse‐grained rock • Demarcates – Sets the official border • Precipitously – Very high and steep geography • Desideratum – Something that is desired • Carapace – An animal shell
Chapter Fourteen Vocabulary • Crampons – Spikes on a climbing boot • Mundane – Ordinary or boring • Comelier – Good looking • Madrigal – a lyric poem • Serac – A ridge in a glacier • Recumbent – Lying, resting, or leaning • Catwalk – A high walkway • Chutzpah – Supreme self confidence
Chapter Fourteen Summary • The author of this book, _____ _______, saw a lot of himself in Chris McCandless. John spent a great deal of his time from _____ until his _____ _____ mountain climbing. In 1977, he decided to climb the _____ ______. It is twice the height of Yosemite’s __ _____. He had been working in ______ for $3.50 and hour as a _______. The car he drove to Alaska was a ____ ______ ____ _____. He also had $____. In Gig Harbor, he _______ ___ ___ and got a ride on a ______ to Alaska. In Petersburg, he met a woman named ____ ______, who let him sleep on her floor. To get to the Devil’s Thumb, he had to get a ride across ____ miles of saltwater and ____ miles up the _____. He got a ride with some ___ ____. John had bought a pair of _____ ____. He tied them together in hopes that if he fell into crevasse, they would suspend him. One time, after he almost fell through a one hundred foot crevasse, he had the ___ _____. When he made it through the glacial area, he pitched his ___ and fell asleep. He had paid a _____ _____ $150 to fly his supplies to the base of the ______ and drop them off. He waited _____ days for the snow to let up enough for the pilot to drop the supplies. He was down to his last pack of ____ _____ and ½ box of ____ ______. On May 11, he awoke to _____ ____ and a temperature of about 20 degrees. He hurriedly began his ______. There was about ___ inches of ice where he began climbing.
Chapter Fourteen Summary • Each time he planted his ice axe, he gained about ___ inches on his climb. He had to go about a ____ mile up. He had climbed nearly ____ feet since stepping off the ice glacier. He got as high as _____ feet when he could go no further. He looked all around for a way to go up, but the only place to go was _____.
Chapter Fifteen Vocabulary • Ripstop – Woven with extra threads to make tearing less likely • Dumbstruck – Temporarily speechless • Brash – Acting in a hasty or impulsive fashion • Autocratic – Ruler with absolute authority • Progeny – Offspring of an organism; children • Hectored – Spoken to in an intimidating way • Rhetorically – Using language that is fine sounding, but insincere
Chapter Fifteen Vocabulary • Epiphany – A sudden realization • Valise – Case or satchel • Metastasized – Spread somewhere else in the body • Bivouac – An all‐in‐one sleeping back/ tent. • Spindrift – Blowing snow • Volition – The ability to make a conscious choice or decision • Patina – A thin layer • Hubris – Excessive pride
Chapter Fifteen Summary • After coming down from the _____ ____, John spent the next ____ days in his tent due to a snowstorm. He had a ____ in the tent that caused part of the inner wall to be vaporized. John was upset with himself because it was his _____ tent. After John graduated from college, he became a ______. This _____ his father. His father ended up suffering from ____ _____ _____. On page 130, he says it took five minutes for the snow to cover his ____ ____. He tried to find his way back to camp during the storm, but realized his tracks had _____ _____. He decided to dig a hole and get back into his ____ ____. He ended up trying to climb the Thumb again, but this time taking a route followed by ____ _____ in 1946. The night before he made this attempt, he had many ______. The climb was fun, this time the slope never got greater than _____ _____. Forty five feet before the summit shoulder, he ran out of ice to bury his axe into. He did make it to the ______, or top of the Thumb. He got a ride on a boat with ____ ______, who asked if he had been ________.
Chapter Fifteen Summary • ______ offered to let him sleep in a _____ ____ ___ in his back yard. When he couldn’t fall asleep, he walked down to _____ ____ and spent the night. When he went back to Boulder, he got his job as a ______ back. He thought if he had died, people would have thought he had a _____ ____.
Chapter Sixteen Vocabulary • Doleful – Sad and mournful • Bigamist – Married to more than one person at the same time • Rubicon – Point of no return • Perambulation – To walk about • Rictus – Strange grin or grimace • Castigated – Severely scold • Butte – Flat topped hill • Axiom – Rule., a generally accepted truth
Chapter Sixteen Summary • Three days after leaving Carthage, Chris crossed the Canadian Border at ______, ______ ______. He took a picture of himself at the center of Dawson Creek, which marks the start of the _______ ______. He got a ride with _____ ____, who was delivering a ______ _____ to Fairbanks. He told Chris he’d bring him as far as _______, which was 500 miles away. Stuckey decided to bring him with all the way to _______. Chris had him drop him at the ______ __ _______. At the University bookstore, Chris bought a book about the ______ plants in the area. He also bought a ________ and four boxes of ______. Chris left on the morning of April 28, and was picked up by ____ _____. The heaviest things in Chris’ backpack were his _____. The Teklanika River was shallow when he crossed it because there had been a _____ but then it became _____ again.
Chapter Sixteen Summary • The day he found the bus he called it _____ ___ ____ in his journal. He had a _____ time killing any food. He soon had sunlight for ____ hours per day. He ended up losing one of his _____. His original goal was to walk to the ______ ____. This would have required a walk of about _____ miles. The wilderness where he stayed was surrounded by ___ ____ ______ on the east, to the south an ________, and by _____ _____ within a six mile radius of the bus. But, he did see ____ people in the four months he was there. On June 9, he shot a ______. He tried to _____ it, but the meat was spoiled and had _______ all over it. He wished he’d ______ shot it. On ____ ___, he set out to hike back to civilization, but the river was _____ _____. Ironically, if he had walked a _____ ______, he could probably have crossed the river and ______ ____. He decided to wait for the river to _______.
Chapter Seventeen Vocabulary • Plumb – A weight attached to a line to find the true depth of water • Salvation – Means of saving someone from harm • Idiosyncratic – A weird way of thinking about something • Traverse – Go back and forth across something • Miasma – Harmful smelling muck • Massif – Mountains • Scabbard – Sheath for a sword
Chapter Seventeen Vocabulary • Manifesto – Declaration of principles • Tableau – A visually dramatic scene • Hauteur – Overconfidence, arrogance, conceit • Sobriquet – Nickname
Chapter Seventeen Summary • Jon went to visit the ____. He had a map that showed great detail. ___ ____ equaled ___ ____. He had ____ companions with him. They crossed the river on a ____ ____. They had to cross ____ ____ that were at times ____ deep. Jon has been to Alaska ___ times. All around the bus were ____ from small game Chris had lived on. At first people thought he had killed an____, not a _____. Pictures proved he did kill a _____. It smelled like dead birds in the bus because there were _____ _____ in a plastic bag. Chris had carved a message in a _____ skull. There were two pairs of ____ on a log. Jon and his friends ate _____ steaks for dinner. Many people thought the lack of equipment Chris brought into the wild showed not just _____, but also _______. People compared him to _____ ____, who led a failed expedition.
Chapter Seventeen Summary • The men from that expedition survived on _____, scraped from rocks, ____ ___ ____, animal _____, boot _____, and ______ ____. When he got back to England, people nicknamed him the ____ ___ ___ ____ ____. He led two more expeditions, before he and the ____ men in his crew disappeared. A major mistake was he had never learned how the _____ and _____ survived. McCandless wanted to live entirely ____ ___ ____. He survived for ____ weeks on ten pounds of ____ and what he got from the earth. ____ ____ was the founder of the Sierra Club. Muir and Thoreau went exploring to see nature; Chris went to explore his _____ self, or his soul. He didn’t write much about the ____. He mostly wrote about what he ____. Some people feel he had a ____ _____ complex. Jon’s friend, ____ ____, teaches at ______ _____University . He has done many backcountry feats. He thinks Chris was much like him and could very easily have survived, with a bit of _____.
Chapter Eighteen Vocabulary • Stymied – To hinder the progress of something • Fecund – Fertile or highly imaginative • Munificence – Very generous or ample • Sabbatical – Leave from work or daily routine • Conflagration – A large destructive fire • Beatific – Of heavenly happiness
Chapter Eighteen Summary • Chris was probably not ____ that he couldn’t cross the river. He probably felt if he waited until _____ the river would not be as fast and he could leave. He had ____ of food. In his journal, he blames the _____ ____ for his failing health. He started feeling ill on ___ ___ and by ___ ___, he was dead. Some people believe he may have mistaken the seeds from the _____ ____ __ with seeds from the ____ ___. The scientific name for the wild sweet pea is __ ______. ___ _____ gave it this name. Jon believes he may have eaten ______ seeds from the wild potato. The poison from this causes the body to not be able to use food as a _____ _____. Sadly, there was a ____ _____ cabin six miles away that was stocked with food and medicine. There were two other cabins nearby that had been _______, possibly by Chris. Chris could possibly have started a large _____ _____to attract attention in an effort to save himself, but his sister said he would never have done that. The final words in his journal were ______ _____. On the back of this sheet, write his final farewell. He probably died ____ days after he entered the wilderness; _____ days before his body was found.