Into The Wild, The End

As we found out in the beginning of the book, McCandless did not survive. Of course, it was still a shock to see how he actually dies, starved to death in an abandoned bus in the middle of the frozen Alaska wilderness. It's kind of sad that he still wrote only happy entries in his journal, right up until he starved to death. After articles about him were published, their authors received a lot of hate mail. People called him stupid and criticized him for knowing nothing when he went in to the wilderness. However, these people were shot down when this book was published. McCandless knew how to hunt, knew what he was doing, and knew how to survive. He only died because of an injury and lack of a map. He was aware of how important a map was, but chose to ignore it and live on his own. He wanted to live in the wild away from people, and his wishes should be respected even today.