Into the wild Character Traits

DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION - the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like.

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION - the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through the character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.


Direct Quotes:
1. "five feet seven or eight with a wirey build" (4)
2. "he claimed to be 24 years old and said he was from South Dakota" (4)
3. "he was congenial and well educated" (5)
4. "(he) remarked that he was afraid of water" (6)
5. " McCandless was smallish with the hard stingy phsique of an itninerant laborer" (16)
6. "dark and emotive suggested a trace of exotic blood in his heritage" (16)
7. "he had the kind of sensative good looks that girls made a big fuss over" (16)
8. "his face had a strange elasticity: it would be slack and expressonliess one minute, only to twist suddenly into an oversized grin"
9. "he was near sighted and wore steel-rimmed glasses
10. "he was the hardest worker i've ever seen"
 
Indirect Quotes:
1. "he didnt appear to be very old"(3)
2. "he peppered Gallien with questions" (5)
3. "he was determined to go. A real gung ho." (6)
4. "the word that comes to mind is excited" (6)
5. Chris burned all his money and got rid of his stuff and that shows he's not materialistic at all
6.  he was determined because even after he lost his car he still kept walking
7. he was hard working, he would do all the dirty jobs that no one else would do on the grain elevator (18)
8. he had high moral standards, once he started a job he would never give up(18)
9. he was intelligent, he used big words and graduated from college with good grades
10. he was also a loner, he didnt walk around with anyone and he said that re-entering sociaty was tough
 
From what i've heard it sounds like Chris is a hardworking young man that refusees to stop what he started. He was very intelligent and sometimes thought into things too much, he thought about sociaty so much that he gave up on it and went to live alone. He also seemed tough because he would go days without eating much and he would still keep walking.