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In the film, Cheryl finds out that REI will ship her new boots for free at one of her first stops on the trail. Cheryl blames marrying too young and her own infidelity for their failed marriage.Ĭheryl’s boots did plague her throughout her hike, taking six of her toenails because they were too small. Their divorce (as reflected in the film) is largely amicable.

To honor their connection to each other, the two got tattoos of horses on their arms. (Their biological father was abusive and Cheryl loses touch with him after her mother files for divorce.) Cheryl and Eddie grew particularly close during her mother’s sickness, but after she passed, Eddie remarried and grew distant.Ĭheryl and Paul got matching tattoos when they divorced Eddie is a father figure to Cheryl and her siblings when they are young. The movie also removes their mother’s second husband, Eddie. In reality, Cheryl also had an older sister, Karen. In the film, Cheryl has only one sibling, her younger brother Leif. The movie cuts out a few important people in Cheryl’s real life. She feared that if she called Paul he would somehow divine that she had done drugs just days before.Ĭheryl’s only family was her mother and brother Paul disapproved from the habit and helped Cheryl quit, but she used again shortly before the hike. Cheryl fell into using heroin for a time between her mother’s death and her hike four years later. In reality, Cheryl resisted the urge to call her ex the night before she began her hike. In the film, Cheryl calls her newly ex-husband Paul before she sets off on her journey, probably so that audience members will become familiar with Paul (who appears in many flashbacks throughout the movie) early on. Warning: spoilers follow for Wild, both the book and the movie.Ĭheryl’s last phone call before starting her hike was to her ex-husband, Paul Here’s what was truth, as described by the memoir, and what was changed for the movie. Still, the film closely parallels the book, mirroring Strayed’s bleak back story and her uplifting journey.

Into the wild book vs movie