Into the Wild | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Christopher Johnson McCandless - A young man who tries to please an overbearing father until he discovers skeletons in his father's closet.

Wayne Westerberg - This man does not judge the main individual in this book, making that individual wish his father was more like this man.

Samuel Walter McCandless, Jr. - This self-made individual has a career at NASA and later with Hughes Aircraft . For the first 17 years of this person's present marriage, this individual lived a double life, secretly still married to their first spouse.

Billie McCandless - This...
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