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Exploring Key Themes and Vocabulary in "Into the Wild"

Dive into the rich vocabulary and themes from Chapter 6 and the opening of Chapter 7 of "Into the Wild." This section highlights powerful words such as *placid*, *prodigious*, and *lavish*, each shedding light on the complexities of nature, wealth, and human experience. The text also touches on the concepts of *indigent* lives, *relenting* relationships, and the growth of *burgeoning* friendships. Together, these elements provide a deeper understanding of McCandless's journey and the emotional tapestry that weaves through his story.

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Exploring Key Themes and Vocabulary in "Into the Wild"

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  1. Power Words 10 From Chapter 6 (and the first four pages of Chapter 7) of Into the Wild

  2. Placid (48) • (adj.) Pleasantly calm or peaceful • Hard to the east is the Salton Sea, a placid ocean in miniature…

  3. Prodigious (49) • (adj.) Large and marvelous • For more than two years the canal inadvertently diverted virtually all of the river’s prodigious flow into the Salton sink.

  4. Lavish (49) • (adj.) Abundant; extravagant; fancy • Lavish resorts were planned, grand subdivisions platted.

  5. Indigent (50) • (adj.) Poor; destitute • To salve his loneliness in the years after the accident, he started unofficially “adopting” indigent Okinawan boys and girls, eventually taking fourteen of them under his wing.

  6. Relent (52) • (v) To become more lenient or forgiving • McCandless relented.

  7. Missive (53) • (n) A written message • The missive to Burres says…

  8. Speculate (55) • (v) to contemplate; to reflect; to posit • The missive to Burres says…

  9. Burgeoning (56) • (adj.) Flourishing; growing • Franz relished being with McCandless, but their burgeoning friendship also reminded him how lonely he’d been.

  10. Wary (59) • (adj) on guard; cautious; watchful • A little more than a year after McCandless’s death he regards the world through wary blue eyes.

  11. Surfeit (62) • (n) Excess; an overabundant supply • Nor was McCandless endowed with a surfeit of common sense.

  12. Conjecture (64) • (n or v) guess; speculation • Westerberg’s latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless.

  13. Astute (64) • (adj) smart; clever; shrewd • Westerberg’s latter conjecture, as it turned out, was a fairly astute analysis of the relationship between Chris and Walt McCandless.

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