“Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild.” (Krakauer 69).
Fool:
It is very strange how in this quote Alex almost foreshadows his death. In this quote he is writing a letter to Wayne Westerburg. I believe at the time he writes this letter, something must of happened in his journey where he can "smell" that the end is near. Either that, or he is writing it in case of the tragedy. In the beginning of his trip he was very enthusiastic and almost cocky to the point where he thought surviving was easy. Something had to of changed his mind. The reason I call this "Fool' is because I feel like this had to be expected when he came to Alaska. Not the fact of death but the fact that an in-experienced man in the great wilderness of Alaska would be challenging. I wonder how his family reacted to this news? They might have been accepting of the fact that he did go to Alaska by himself, almost like "what'd you expect". Regardless, this letter was eerily received.
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