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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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| The Datsun | emblematic of Christopher McCandless's genuine disinterest in material things. Americans value their cars. McCandless leaves his in the desert. |
| The bus | Presumably named by McCandless after a song by British rock band The Who stands for the good fortune he repeatedly encounters in his odyssey through the American West. After all, what are the odds when McCandless forges into the bush that it will be waiting there for him to live inside? Of course, McCandless dies inside it, too, indicating that his luck has run out. |
| Bullhead city | City in Arizona along the Colorado River. |
| Dillard, Annie | (b. 1945) Pulitzer prize–winning American author of narrative nonfiction. |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | (1803–82) American poet and Transcendentalist philosopher whose works include the essay "Self-Reliance." |
| Emory University | Private university located in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by Methodists in the 1830s. |
| Kerouac, Jack | (1922–69) American author and member of the so-called "Beat" writers who wrote the seminal novel On the Road. |
| L'Amour, Louis | (1908–88) American author of popular Western novels. |
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