1. what might have mccandless’s motives have been for his behavior (para. 3)?

Inspired by Tolstoy he wanted to start a new life. Be independent and have adventures like any young person. According to the authors note for him wasn’t very difficult to start this new life. He changed his name, donated all his money to charity and left everything behind. McCandless wanted to learn by himself even if was a hard path to walk on.

Because when you learn a different language you are also taught about your own language. You may not know what adverbs are until you learn another language because we use slang in our native language. So when we learn how to speak our language properly we sound more educated. They thought that she was acting as if she was better than them, in an grammar aspect.