Answer: Wayne is the owner of a grain elevator company. The two of them are very good friends.
Explanation:
Into the Wild is a 1996 best-selling book by Jon Krakauer. The book is a story about Christopher McCandless, who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness.
In the story, Wayne Westerberg is the owner of a grain elevator company. Wayne was involved in the television signals piracy, which is why he served a sentence. He assists McCandless and picks him up hitchhiking. The two of them gradually become very good friends. Wayne gives Chris a job on multiple occasions and proves to be a rather generous and kind man.
Rock and minerals are both considered to be natural substances and this is what they have in common.
