My Final Impression of Chris McCandless

I am a critic of Chris McCandless.  This young man just does not make sense to me.  Obviously, McCandless' frontal lobes of his brain were not developed yet because he was very immature to see past what he had in his family.  I think Krakauer gives Chris McCandless too much credit for what he did.  Though Krakauer does point out Chris' stupid mistakes.  For example, Chris did not realize that several miles down the river, were a series of braided currents where he could have crossed.  McCandless burnt his money because he thought he would never need it.  However, he ends up using other people's money like Jan Burres, who gave him cash that helped him buy a canoe.  I don't think that he was being independent at all by doing that.  While he is afraid of people getting too close to him, he uses them and barely has respect for them.  For example, Chris only contacted Ron Franz when he needed to stay with him.  I simply do not think Chris was the brilliant mind people think he was.  Though I do think living in Alaska for over 100 days is quite the accomplishment.  I also do not believe he was trying to kill himself purposefully, he was just too arrogant in the first place to even realize what he was doing.  All in all, I do not like Chris, and I think Jon Krakauer makes him seem a lot greater than he really was.