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5. Read the first newspaper extract below and complete the second with the required info.

The abandoned bus on and cruised over the tundra
the Stampede Trail in to the Museum of the North
Alaska’s “Into the , made at the University of Alaska
Wild” bus, known famous by the book and film in Fairbanks. The decision
, has made to remove the bus was
as a deadly lure its first journey in decades; made out of concern for
for people, has this time by . public safety as the bus had
been removed by Bus142, known also as the drawn into
air. Magic Bus, was strapped to the danger of the Alaska
the bottom of a helicopter wilderness.

6. Read the story behind the Magic Bus and answer the questions.

ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED If he had traveled upstream, he
Bus 142, known as The Magic Bus, has received would have seen better options
international attention since Christopher McCandless’s ahead. If he had been a more
body was discovered inside in 1992. Then, with the book experienced hiker, he would have
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer in 1997 and its film adaptation also known to try to traverse the
in 2007, McCandless’s story has become a modern myth. river in the morning when the
As you know, McCandless was a talented young man who water reaches its lowest point.
had a well-to-do family and a bright future ahead. One day, Many believe that McCandless’s story is not about a man
he told his parents that he wanted to spend the summer who died, but about someone who truly lived. Therefore,
traveling in his car. In fact, he left his family and friends the bus had been a magnet for those who search for
behind to vanish into the wild. He donated all his money, themselves and pursue dreams of freedom out there in the
left his car and went on his solo adventure by hitchhiking wilderness, till the time it was moved away. Hikers risked
to his dreamland, Alaska. He reached there one year later their lives crossing the dangerous river to reach the bus.
and started to live in an abandoned bus in the wild. One of them once said, “The bus is where McCandless’s
Four months later, he decided to turn back and took journey ended, and the rest of ours begins.”
the trail from Bus 142 to the main park entrance. McCandless wrote in his diary that he had a happy life, and
However, he discovered the Teklanika River had turned happiness was only real when shared. His sister, Carine
into a raging torrent with glacier melt, and it was completely McCandless, visited the bus in August 2007 and left a
uncrossable. Therefore, he went back to the bus and decided notebook with a quote on the cover: “There is no way to
to wait until the water would decrease. Unfortunately, Chris happiness; happiness is the way.” She believed in Chris’s
did not realize that there was another way across the river. story and knew that it was only real when shared.

1 What is the book or the movie Into the Wild about?

2 Where did McCandless want to go?

3 Why couldn’t he return?

4 Why did people risk their lives to see the bus?

5 Why did Chris’s sister leave a notebook in the bus?

7. Considering the true story of Christopher, write your thoughts and ideas on how you feel about
his extraordinary experience.
I don’t understand how he…/I think he should/shouldn’t have…/I can understand why he…

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