In the book "Into the Wild" the author give stories of other men who didn't survive in the wild. I feel that he put these stories into the book to show that Chris wasn't as insane as everyone said. Everyone made Chris out to be this stupid and naive boy who couldn't survive in the wild. He made it almost two years in the wild with very little help from people and civilization. The other stories were about men who died in the wild on their very first trips. Those men were not as mentally prepared as Chris was and I feel that Krakauer put those stories in to show that. Those men were naive and stupid, Chris was not.
When Chris changed his name, he was looking for a new begining. He wanted to leave behind everything of his old life, name included. A name is just a name, if someone doesn't like there name, or it doesn't fit there personality, they can always change it. I have so many family members who don't go by their actual names. There is a Sandra that goes by Sam, a Desiree that goes by Dez, a David that goes by Dave, and so on and so on. Most of these names are changing formal names into less serious because honestly, my family is never serious, so it fits.
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