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Chris Mccandless In The Movie 'Into The Wild'

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The Movie Into the Wild is based on a true story of Chris McCandless whose body was found in the Alaskan wilderness in September 1992 at the age of twenty-four. McCandless grew up in suburbs of Virginia. After graduating from high school Chris went on a road trip during the summer across the country. While on this trip he finds out that his father had a second family during Chris’s childhood which was kept a secret. When McCandless returned home he went off to college and attended Emory University as a freshman. The anger he felt over this betrayal and his parents didn’t divulge the information grew over time. By the time that Chris was a senior he became anti-social, he lost most of his friends and hardly kept in touch with his parents.

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