Chris McCandless always wanted to live on his own and in the wild, however that would soon become a mistake. In the novel, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, the main character, Chris McCandless, hitchhiked to Alaska. He had given $25000 to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Chris McCandless was influenced by many literary heroes, but the three that influenced him the most were Jack London, Henry David Thoreau, and Leo Tolstoy. Chris was influenced by Jack London in many ways, and he changed his life forever. Chris McCandless favorite author was Jack London, because he would right his books about the wild. Jack London was a notorious drinker. London liked to make books about Alaska and the Yukon. He liked to make fictional books of his imagination that had to do with his romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in the wilderness. Jack London wrote, "Dark spruce forest on either side the frozen waterway. The tress had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering frost ¦It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the wild, the savage frozen-hearted Northland Wild  (pg.9). Chris was influenced by Jack London because he wrote about the wild. Chris would try to convince everybody to read The Call of the Wild. Chris had been an admirer of Jack London since he was a kid. McCandless overlooked the fact that London had spent an entire winter in the North and that he'd died on his own. Chris McCandless favorite author, Jack London, always wrote about the wild and living in the wild. Another one of Chris favorite author was Henry David Thoreau. One of Chris favorite author was Henry David Thoreau because he also wrote about the wild. Henry David Thoreau was an essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. Thoreau wrote Walden, or Life in the