Sole Survivor is a novel by Dean Koontz about the mysteries and conspiracies surrounding a plane crash. A year after Joe Carpenter's family is killed in a plane crash, he is confronted by a survivor of the crash, Rose. Joe begins a search for the truth about the crash, suspicious of Rose at times. A laboratory-developed girl named CCY 21-21, modeled after Joe's daughter, has the power to heal and Rose has been protecting the girl. We learn the crash was an attempt to kill Rose for rescuing the girl.
Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate
The Road The Wasp Factory and The Road not Taken In The Road The Wasp factory and The Road not taken the contrasting theme is journeys journeys of peoples experiences and fight for survival The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy It is a post apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and apparently almost all life on earth In The Road the
The Road Summary The Road is about an unnamed father and son traveling south together in post apocalyptic time across a deserted highway They are traveling south because they cant survive another winter Nearly all of the few human survivors are bandits or cannibals The father coughs blood every morning and knows he is dying yet he struggles to protect his son from the constant threats of attack exposure and starvation On their journey the two scavenge for food and encounter several raiders and
Oryx and Crake Book Review Margaret Atwood began writing in early childhood and by mid adolescence she knew that she definitely wanted to be a writer Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 Her father was an entomologist and eight months of each year he did insect research in the forest so she spent part of her childhood living in the wilderness of northern Quebec The novel was published in 2003 during the time when SARS was overspreading the world The book got extra attention and immediatel