: After reading Chapter 1 of Into the Wild, consider your first impression of Christopher McCandless. Based solely on the events and details presented in this opening chapter, do you believe McCandless truly understood the risks he was taking when he entered the Alaskan wilderness? Why or why not?
Prompt Response: Based on the first chapter that we read I truly believed that Chris McCandless understood the risk that he was taking.Chris McCandless is a educated man who went to Emory. In the first chapter when the man offered him food he decllined. This shows how he is knowingly rejecting help and that anyone with a education would understand that he is offering because it is so challenging. Also Alex states that he does not care about government rules when it comes to him having no hunter license which shows his desire to live abnormally even if he is at risk with only a small rifle. It shows he was there for the journey and the unpredictable series of events. Summary: During the class period we started reading the book,"Into the Wild" as a class. We read the first chatper as well as talked about some context beforehand. We dicussed the differences between hitch hiking and other forms of hiking. We also talked about what each of us would bring while hiking and whether...