Characterization

Direct Characterization:
1. He excelled in academics. (1)
2. He was a great athlete. (1)
3. He was not prepared for the journey he was getting ready to go on. (4)
4. His remains weighed sixty-seven pounds. (14)
5. He was smallish with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer. (16)

Indirect Characterization:
1. Alex insists in giving away his watch, comb, and his money to Gallien- Alex doesn't care about his belongings anymore because he knows that he is going into the wild and he will not need in anymore. (6)
2. "Alex was smallish with the hard, stringy, physique of an itinerant laborer." (16)
3. "He had the kind of sensitive good looks that women made a fuss over." (16)
4. "The available evidence indicates that McCandles did not misrepresent the facts; telling the truth was a credo he took seriously. (29)
5. McCandles slowed his pace, and his mood became more contemplative. (35)

Paragraph:
In the book "Into The Wild", by Jon Krakauer, the main character Chris McCandles is very smart but he threw away everything he had in order to escape from his life and go into the wild. When I read this story the author truly expressed the kind of life that Chris wanted to live when the author talked about all that Chris threw away to go into the wild. McCandles is also very brave. It takes a brave person to go into the wild and live by yourself like Chris McCandles did. The author also makes Chris sound like he is almost crazy when he expresses some of the things which Chris did. Some of the things that McCandles does in the story truly make me wonder why he would want to live a life like that when he had everything.