Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

Sebastian Stockmarr

This interested me how an academic person is obsessed with this concept. Despite all the things he learned, getting a 4.0 GPA he feels it's not enough and begins a totally  different approach to life. 

Fikra Fadilla

"He became convinced that humans had devolved into progressively inferior beings," McKinney explains, "and it was his goal to return to a natural state. He was forever experimenting with different eras-- Roman times, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age. By the end his lifestyle had elements of the Neolithic."

His hair was long, and he had a beard. Chris almost always had short hair and was clean-shaven. And the face in the picture was extremely gaunt. But I knew right away. There was no doubt. It was Chris. I went home, picked up Michele, my wife, and drove out to Maryland to tell Dad and Billie. I didn't know what I was going to say. How do you tell someone that their child is dead?

Walt studies a sailboat scudding beneath the window of his waterfront townhouse. "How is it," he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, "that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?"

Annabelle Gauthier

But then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

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