Direct Characterization
"Five feet seven or eight with a wiry build," (Page 4).
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"He was determined. Real gung ho. The word that comes to mind is excited. He couldn't wait to head out here and get started," (Page 6).He was actually looking forward to roughing it in the Alaskan wilderness
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He claimed to be twenty-four years old and from South Dakota, even though he only looked eighteen or nineteen (Page 2, 3). Either he's young for his age, or a liar.
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He didn't have very good equipment, so he may have been poor, or just ignorant about what good equipment is.
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“And thus considered it his moral responsibility to flout the laws of the state,” (Page 28). He is rebellious, and doesn’t like to listen to others.
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“Telling the truth was a credo he took seriously,” (Page29). He did many things wrong and against the rules, but he told the truth.
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“Although the tone of his journal – written in the third person in a stilted, self-consciousness voice – often shifted towards melodrama,” (Page 29). He likes to act dramatic.
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“He always wore shoes without socks – just plain couldn’t stand to wear socks,” (Page 40). He has some strange habits.
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“But he was a nice kid and a good worker. Real dependable,” (Page 40). Even though he was different, he was still good at heart.
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“Didn’t like to be around too many people, though. Temperamental…He’d get moody, wouldn’t like to be bothered,” (Page 42). He needed to be alone sometimes, like everyone does every once in a while.
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Indirect Characterization
"His gear seemed exceedingly minimal for the harsh conditions of the interior, which in April still lay buried under the winter snowpack," (Page 5). A.K.A. - He doesn't know how wild the wilderness is.
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"How I feed myself is none of the government's business. Fuck their stupid rules," (Page 6). A.K.A. - He doesn't play by the rules
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"I don't what to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters," (Page 7). A.K.A. - He just wants to forget about the real world and go into the wild.
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“He saw the flash flood as an opportunity to shed unnecessary baggage,” (Page 29). He can turn a bad situation to his advantage.
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“Then he resumed a life of constant motion,” (Page 30). He didn’t like to stay in one place for a long time, because he got tired of it.
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“He made a point of staying in touch,” (Page 31). Even though he liked changing scenery, he didn’t always like changing people. He still liked to talk to the memorable people he met.
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“Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal,” (Page 33). He likes a challenge. He didn’t go into the wild for a day or two, just to relax. It’s his lifestyle choice.
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“Completely demoralized and frustrated he lays in his canoe at day’s end and weeps,” (Page 35). He is really an emotional person, and he does have a breaking point.
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“Alex talked a lot when we got together…Serious stuff, like he was baring his soul, kind of,” (Page 63). He had a lot of deep stuff on his mind, which might be one of the reasons he went into the wild to find himself.
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“He wasn’t the kind of guy who would go out and pick up girls just to get laid,” (Page 65). He had more important things to do than to have sex. He was deeper than that.
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