He was in pretty bad shape and the veterinarian was doubtful he would be able to walk again.īecause of the vet's diagnosis, Chris's parents said he couldn't take the dog with him. At that point, however, Buckley was recovering from being hit by a car. We learn in Chapter 13 that Chris had wanted to take the dog with him on his post-college trip across the country. In the previous chapter, Krakauer told us about Carine's dog Buckley, Carine's Shetland sheepdog whom Chris adored.
''I was always getting on Mom and Dad's case because they worked all the time and were never around,'' Carine reflects with irony, ''and now look at me: I'm doing the same thing.'' Indeed, Chris used to tease Carine for her capitalist ideals, but it was always a friendly sort of banter. Carine's lifestyle is also not in keeping with Chris's minimal, anti-capitalist approach.Ĭarine and her husband own an auto repair shop and hope to make their first million at an early age. She appears to have been able to forgive and move on where Chris could not. Despite these similarities, Carine and Chris were also vastly different from one another.Ĭarine, unlike Chris, repaired her relationship with her parents. We also learn that Carine, like Chris, ''is energetic and self-assured, a high achiever, quick to state an opinion.'' The two also share in common the fact that they both fought bitterly with their parents as adolescents.
In Chapter 13, Krakauer tells us that the two siblings looked enough alike that they were often asked if they were twins. Author Jon Krakauer has told us several times throughout Into the Wild that Chris McCandless and his sister Carine were very close.
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