Chapter 16

1.      How did McCandless get a ride with Gaylord Stuckey?

Stuckey didn’t know where is   Fairbank, so McCandless helped Stuckey to go Fairbank.

2.      What did Stuckey think of Chris?  What did they talk about?

Stuckey was thought Chris was a dandy kid and  he told Stuckey about his anger with his parents, his love for his sister and his dreams of living off the land in Alaska.

3.      What two requests did Stuckey ask of Chris, and what did Stuckey regret later?

The two requests were Chris call his parents and send a letter to Stuckey. . Stuckey regret Chris went into the wild.

4.      What was ironic about McCandless’s route out of Fairbanks, when he passed the Geophysical Institute?

There were had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless’s design.

5.      How does the author know about what McCandless did once he went into the wild?

In the book, it tells about McCandless found a bus and hunted an animal in the wild.

6.      Krakauer states that when McCandless crossed the Teklanika, “he was crossing his Rubicon.”  What made his crossing of the river such a fateful decision?

It made McCandless to live in the wild.

7.      Describe the problems McCandless encountered after shooting the moose.

After McCandless shot the moose, it becomes infested with vermin and therefore inedible. His feeling was deeply guilty.

8.      The author says that a sense of well-being had returned to McCandless in July, after the moose incident, but he then experienced “the first of two pivotal setbacks.”  What was it? River