1. What life’s lesson do you think Chris learned when he came to the end of his life’s journey?
2. What drove Chris into the wild?
3. Do you think he could have survived the wild if he were better prepared?
4. After the reading, what’s your prospective on nature as a whole?
5. What do you think “man’s role in nature” is?
6. Do you identify with any of characters in the book? If so, which one and how?
7. Do you think Chris is selfish or foolish in a way that he disregarded the heartbreak that his actions brought to his family?
8. Why did Chris rejected his parents’ lifestyle?
9. How Chris’s relationship with his parents reflect your own relationship with your children?
10. Do you think if there were anything that his parents could have done to change Chris’s action and decision?
11. What do you think you would want to say to Chris if you were his parents?
12. What are ‘rubber tramps”? What are the influences they had on Chris?
13. Many readers think of him in a negative way. Why? What do you think of him?
6 comments:
Enjoy to read and find answers for these questions. 问题都很尖锐，Alice 锋芒毕露！
every one is welcome to post any questions as you see fit.
This question goes with #3.
Is Chris reckless, having little regard for the treacherous Alaskan territory?
The book also talks about some great thinkers as well as naturalists whom Chris had admired.
We are as well beeing enlightened while reading Chris McChandless's journey.
From Amozan.com -- Paperback edition
"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.
agenda 7:00-7:15 outline of the book and its character. 7:15-8:15 Discussion of the questions posted. 8:15-8:45 club members' personal thoughts on the book or its characters. 8:45-9:00 preparation for the up coming bookclub meeting in April
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