Into the Wild Chapter 5 Flashcards

When his camera was ruined and McCandless stopped taking photographs, he also stopped keeping a journal.

Bullhead City is a haphazard sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls stretching for eight or nine miles along the banks of the Colorado, directly across the river from the high-rise hotels and casinos of Laughlin, Nevada.

Bullhead City doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstoy.

<p>McCandless was flipping Quarter Pounders at a McDonald's on the main drag.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>McCandless commuted to work on a bicycle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He presented himself as Chris McCandless, not as Alex, and gave his employers his real Social Security number.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His colleagues at the golden arches don't recall much about Chris McCandless, except for that he hated socks and took them off immediately after his shift.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chris is described as a slow-paced cook who never sped up, even during lunch hour.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Zarza told him that he needed to take a bath more often, which started the clash.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>McCandless had tried to disguise the fact that he was a drifter living out of a backpack: he told his fellow employees that he lived across the river in Laughlin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>During his first several weeks in Bullhead, McCandless camped out in the desert at the edge of town; then he started squatting in a vacant mobile home.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charlie said that McCandless liked to read books by that Alaska guy, Jack London.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chris met up with Jan Burres and her boyfriend, Bob.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Slabs are an old navy air base that had been abandoned and razed, leaving a grid of empty concrete foundations scattered far and wide across the desert. Some five thousand snowbirds and drifters and sundry vagabonds venture there.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>McCandless volunteered to oversee her large inventory of used paperback books.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He'd try to convince every snowbird who walked by that they should read Call of the Wild by Jack London.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alex took it over and entertained everybody all day playing it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Burres also got McCandless to accept some long underwear and other warm clothing she thought he'd need in Alaska.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I found most of it in the van. He'd pulled it out of his pack when we weren't looking and hid it up under the seat.</p> Signup and view all the answers