Investigating McCandless' and others' death's

Chapters 8–10: The Outcasts

Chapter Eight: Alaska 
Chapter Nine: Davis Gulch
What is the function of these chapters? What is their relationship to the rest of the text?
In Chapter Eight, it starts off talking about Chris and what had happened in Alaska, as the chapter proceeds, it starts to talk about people similar to Chris McCandless. The other people they talk  about all had a similar idea to Chris in going off and "living off the land" and that they all died from starvation. In Chapter Nine, it tells a story of Everett Ruess, who was the most similar to McCandless in many different ways. Their writings to friends, and people they have meet along the way all seem like they were writing the same thing just in their own words. Authorities never found Ruess' body so they don't know how he died exactly.
Why did Krakauer interrupt the McCandless story with Chapters 8 and 9?
I think Krakauer interrupted Chris McCandless' story because he wanted everyone to know that Chris is not the only one who had attempted to "live off the land" and happened to die in the process before returning home. Also to tell the sad stories of everyone else to give the book as a whole a variety of people instead of just McCandless.
Chapter Ten: Fairbanks
Were you surprised that McCandless left trails so that the authorities could find out who he was?
Yes, quite honestly, since he changed his name from Chris to Alex, and carried very little money and sometimes none at all. All of the journals he wrote he never used "I" he always referred to himself in the third person which, not many people do when they are writing journals.
What’s in a name?  Does it matter that we have the name we were given by our parents?  How do names matter?  Does your name fit you?  If not, what name would you choose?  Why?
I think that there might be a reason why your parents gave you the name they did. It does matter that we have the name we were given at birth because then our parents, could potentially say that, they actually gave many thoughts to why they named us what they did. I think names matter because then no one would call you that one person, or whatever their heart desires to call you at that moment. I think my name fits me because I'm the only Kaitlin in my family so I have a unique name. Also my middle name came from my grandpa's middle name just transformed into a girl version.