When reading "Into the Wild", although it's a biography of Chris McCandless, you'll feel somewhat distanced; and the pieces from his diaries the writer used from time to time, strengthen this feeling. Although the book was about McCandless, the focus was on the people, environment, elements and ideas surrounding him. Furthermore, the use of the third person and the alter ego "Alex" Make the reader more distanced from McCandless. However, this feeling might change a bit towards the End of Chris McCandless' journey, because he wrote using the first person and also he signed what he has written with his real name. This might have been caused by McCandless' feeling that his journey has came to an end and his death became inevitable.