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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“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)