Review: Well done!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
I was rooting for our hero! Alas our writer takes a pessimistic, but most likely realistic view of the human condition!If there is no law, no society, nothing of the world you knew left to keep you civilized, what will you justify?In the first few pages of this you get the idea that our hero is going to be the last ethical person left in a bomb blasted wasteland! As he encounters more of the survivors of a destroyed Oregon it becomes apparent that this is a story of a persons ability to rationalize violent behavior.While this story is in no way preachy, it does a great job of exploring the depths of self deception and rationalization a person is capable of!This is a great reminder that sometimes who we think we are, and how we think we will react, are simply hopes and illusions. I would hope I would be a decent human being in extreme situations! I hope i would do the things I like to think I would, but as this story so elegantly and brutally illustrates, you do not know how you will react untill placed in the particular situation.What could you justify to survive? What parts of yourself would you cast aside to survive for a little longer?