Part Four: The Intervention: Into the Wild: Chapters 54 - 61 Summary

After leaving Dressler Psychiatric Hospital against medical orders, Cory is enrolled in the Roundtop Wilderness Camp for troubled teens. Here, Cory must climb a Wyoming mountain in the middle of winter, following strict orders and regulations, to prove that he has control over his life and emotions. The program will also force him to rehabilitate his alcoholism, as there is no contact with the outside world allowed. The counselors promise that, "we're here to help you fix your lives, but in the end it's going to be you who have to do it" (p. 198). Cory wakes each morning with two feet of snow covering his sleeping bag. He scrapes ice from his boots before he can wear them. He is taught how to build shelter, how to...