Title of the Book: Into The Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
 Number of Pages: 215
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Review: How does a young, healthy, intelligent, 24-year-old man go from graduating at the top of his class with $24k in the bank to winding up dead in a run-down bus in the Alaskan bush? This question is answered in the award-winning book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer in which detail accounts were given by the drifters and other characters Chris McCandless came across on his 2 and a half year odyssey.      

Into The Wild brings you along the trip of Alex Supertramp (also known to his family as Chris McCandless) in which you see the idealistic view of true freedom to those that see past the haze of our modern society. You follow Alex through trail and tribulations such as him hitchhiking from South Dakota to California. Or the journey he takes down the Colorado River in a canoe and ending up in the golf of California before he finally meets his end in the Alaskan Bush. 

This book is unique in the sense that the organization of hopping in and out of time creates one of the most complex characters I have ever read. In the book, you see how Alex is seen as either the noblest idealistic man that has lived in the 21st century or an egocentric maniac who only cares for him and him alone. The complexity of the character also unravels the true meaning of freedom and brings up how you see freedom; whether it is only accessible by those willing to give up everything and only live with their own 2 feet, or if anyone can access it. 

The author Jon Krakauer is outstanding with his tone of mystery and the theme of true freedom showing through the most memorable scenes. Such as Alex ditching his car in the middle of a dessert and burning the rest of his money that he had in his pockets, or having this angelic lad randomly be able to play piano, stunning his friends at a local bar. It is scenes such as these in the book that you remember because it keeps shifting how you view Alex, making it impossible to quite figure out who he is or what he is thinking, only adding to the mystery of the whole story its self. 

At the end of the day, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is intrigued by the idea of true freedom and what it means in today's society.  Not only because of its’ brilliant writing and plot but also how the story holds your soul into viewing true freedom and courage to find that dream.