Billie was the primary victim, Carine writes, but she was also a victimizer, belittling and betraying both kids at crucial junctures. A vivid example occurred a week after Carine graduated from high school in , when she came home from a date just before a household curfew. Walt, she writes, was waiting for her at the door, intoxicated, and he jerked her violently into the house.
A deep, fierce roar escaped him as he threw me onto the couch and trapped me under his weight. The book also explores in great detail another McCandless family drama: the fact that Chris and Carine were illegitimate. In the early s, when Walt was working at Hughes Aircraft in southern California, he was married to a woman named Marcia, with whom he eventually had six children.
Billie worked at Hughes as a secretary, and she and Walt began having an affair. Chris was born to Billie in , only three months after Marcia had given birth to a fifth child, a boy named Shannon. Walt and Billie finally married a few years after Marcia divorced Walt in In a foreword to The Wild Truth , he says that honoring this promise was no problem—journalists keep information off the record all the time.
A lot of people came away from reading Into the Wild without grasping why Chris did what he did. The Wild Truth will be published on November 11, and what remains to be seen is how Walt and Billie respond to a work that purports to lay everything bare and could be extremely damaging to their reputations. Readers will be shocked by the abuse you describe in the book, which is very frightening.
What was it like living with this, and why did you decide it was time to tell people what really happened? My hope is that this new information about a very well-known story is going to be helpful to people, and eye-opening. I want to empower others who face tough circumstances, specifically domestic violence.
My point was not to villainize my parents in any way, shape, or form. My point is to humanize them, so that people can learn from the situation. What kind of reactions are you getting from your extended family—the sons and daughters that Walt had with Marcia? Why would Krakauer include a quote from another author? Why would Krakauer include a quote from another author such as Jack London as the heading for this chapter?
The quote expresses a deep meaning that Krakauer felt would express what he was trying to convey in that chapter more than any quote that he could have made himself. What did McCandless like about Carthage? He liked the community's stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien. There was no work at the grain elevator for McCandless because Westerberg was in jail, so he left town and resumed a nomadic existence. What do we find out in Chapter 10 into the wild?
In Chapter 10 of Into the Wild, Krakauer describes the long and drawn-out process it took to discover Chris McCandless's identity after his body was found in the Alaskan wilderness.
Chris had died while wearing a sweatshirt bearing the logo of a Santa Barbara towing company. The police used this as their first lead. Why did McCandless go to Alaska? Answer and Explanation: Chris McCandless went into the wild for several reasons that Krakauer demonstrates, most important among them is his disdain for modern society.
Wilhelmina "Billie" McCandless Chris's mother and Walt's second wife, who works with Walt on various business ventures involving his radar systems. Wayne Westerberg Grain elevator operator who befriends McCandless in north-central Montana in the fall of Westerberg offers him a ride, a place to stay, and then a job.
Previous Book Summary. Next Chapter 1. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title. Westerberg is a convicted felon who served a short sentence for a victimless crime involving the piracy of television signals. Eighty years old, muscular and tall, Franz is a recovered alcoholic and a widowed father who lost his son to a drunk driving accident while he was overseas.
He establishes a thoughtful, parental relationship with McCandless and offers to adopt him as his grandson. He is also psychologically vulnerable. Walt McCandless is an intense, brilliant engineer with top-secret security clearance and experience in jet propulsion and sensor and satellite system design. Walt McCandless radiates authority and intelligence. Walt is somewhat taciturn, and when he does communicate he is straightforward in a manner that leaves little room for politeness.
She hopes to become a millionaire while she is still young.
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