Great story, Slightly irritating main character

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2015)

I absolutely love stories that have a deeper meaning than what is obviously portrayed on screen. This definitely one of those stories. It shows how devoted one can be to be truly free and fight all the corruption inside himself that society placed in him. He gave all of his savings to charity and burned the money he had on him.
Chris McCandless is a troubled kid that dislikes society and what it does to peoples minds. He doesn't like materialism and does everything in his power to get away from it, including going to Alaska and he left no margin for error in the way he did so.
What irritates me about him is that he didn't want to take a map. I read the book and loved it too, but the fact that he didn't take a map is completely and utterly arrogant. If he had, he would have known about the shallow waters up the river or the gauging station only a half a mile down the river.
Really good story about morals but the decisions he made really ended up costing his life.
Lesson... always take a map.