summarizer

in the chapters 1-5 a lot of events have taken place .. in chapter 1 a man traveling from anchorage picks up a young hitch hiker he sees on the highway little did he know that this young man named alex was on a life taking adventure . as alex explains to the man he is one hella of a journey .. his goal was to survive in the bush of alaska on his own with no electronics and limted supplies . the driver jim explains to him how dangerous it is to go out in the bush alone with no supplies needed to survive in any wild let alone alaska's wild. later on in the chapters we find out that jim was right when two hunters find chris McCandless body aka alex laying dead in this abandant fairbanks city ,bus used by local hunters as shelter. then the author changes things up again and starts going back in time and explains McCandless aka alex life before his death back in the lower 48 states.