Brought up in chapter 8 to 9, alike stories about McCandless-type, "outcasts" show not only connections but also differences between them and McCandless. However, why this interruption appeared in the middle of the story? Like Rosellini, Waterman, and McCunn, Chris McCandless had a somewhat similar journey to the wilderness and a tragic ending.
At first it seems like they were all young idealistic but foolish men who risked their life out there to simply prove something. Nevetheless, the author mentioned these characters to show the reader how Chris McCandless differs from the rest. Reading through the chapters, I feft these guys all have the same love for the nature like Chris but they are not the situations like his. In fact Chris cut all of his connection to the society and only remained a little intimacy to friends along the way to Alaska. He came to Alaska not to prove something, instead he found this place where he can stay away from all the displeasures in his materialistic life before and tried to reinvent himself by enjoying the romance of nature. He is definitely not an outcast, instead he just tried to become who he wanted to be.
Everett Ruess is somebody like Chris. They had the same ideas and feelings. During the journey, while Chris changed his name to Alex Supertramp, Everett did his to Nemo. As I said, they tried to reinvent themselves, in there, they just used the new names to identify themselves.
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