... occurred in McCandless's life, but he also uses them to characterize McCandless and to add to his complexity. Early in the book, Krakauer includes a letter from McCandless to a man referred to as Ronald Franz, and in that letter, McCandless tells Franz to, "adopt a helter-skelter style of life," and that the, "very basic core of a man's living spirit is ... ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate