Throughout the book Krakauer regularly refers to different mediums of his investigation, predominantly McCandless's journal entries and interviews with people McCandless encountered on his journeys, in order to give shape to the tramp's long trek. ... Early in the book, Krakauer includes a letter from McCandless to a man referred to as Ronald Franz, and in that letter, McCandless tells Franz to, "adopt a helter-skelter style of life," and that the, "very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure." Later in the book, Krakauer includes an...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

They go on an adventure to end a movie that is being made about characters in a comic book that were modeled after their real-life characters in the movie. ... The next movie is "Doctor Zhivago", which is a romantic movie. It is a movie about the Russian Revolution and involves love affairs between a character Lara and her mother's lover and then she marries a young man who abandons her and then she meets Doctor Zhivago who is married but is driven to the love affair by the war that they are involved in. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School