Ruess was a poet and when he graduated high school in Hollywood. Like McCandless, Ruess also disliked his parents and was close to his siblings (similar to McCandless). He continued to reject society as an adult and became an outdoorsman and lover of nature. Ruess was bored by modern civilization like McCandless, and wanted to pit himself against nature.Īs a child, his life was filled with trauma, constantly moving, never feeling like he had a place in society. Everett Ruess’s was considered more understandable by the author. He took anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics and decided to devote his life to anthropology. Rosellini was the eldest stepson of a wealthy Seattle restaurateur, cousin of Washington governor, excellent athlete and brilliant student. He succeeded for over a decade before deciding his experiment failed. Gene Rosellini (also known as Mayor of Hippie Cove) was a brilliant man from a wealthy family who decided to see if he could live his life “independent of modern technology. He went to Alaska, where he journied alone into the wilderness north of Mt. In 1990 he graduated from Emory University with honors, and soon afterwards gave all of his savings to charity, and started going by “Alex,” abandoning almost all of his possessions, and spent two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. , where he succeeded both academically and athletically. He grew up in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D. Chris was an intelligent, intense young man with a stubborn mindset. He ended up in the wilderness of Alaska, living in a trailer. McCandless could no longer deal with life and left his old life. Oddly, he decided to disappear in response to his father’s misjudgment, giving away his money and overall, became homeless. Each individual also had their own personalities.Ĭhris McCandless was a young and successful college graduate with a job and had money. No individual had the same family background and early experiences in their lives. Lastly, McCandless, Rosellini, and Ruess all had different ways they died. Every character also had a different experience in the wilderness and way they documented it. Each character has a different family background and personality. In the book Into the Wild, characters Chris McCandless, Gene Rosellini and Everett Ruess are all characters with similarities and differences.
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