Characters
- Chris McCandless/Alex Supertramp: A small yet strong young man with deep eyes, who is portrayed as likeable despite his stubborn disposition.
- Ron Franz: A strong 80 year old marine with a barrel chest, strong arms, and a kind heart. He is also a devout Christian and serves as a father figure for “Alex Supertramp,” offering to adopt him.
- Wayne Westerburg: A man with thick shoulders and a black goatee who is described as being successful at whatever he does, good and bad.
- Jan Burres: A woman who was traveling around the West selling items at flea markets with her boyfriend when she met Alex.
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“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
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