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Zone one When Mark spitz says “When this is all over” or “once things get back to normal” or other sentiments of that brand, because he refused them. When it was all done, truly and finally done, you could talk about what you were going to do. See if your house still good, enjoy a few rounds of how many neighbors made it through. Figure out how much of your life from before reamined and how much you had lost. This is what he had learned: if you weren’t concentrating on how to survive the next five minutes, you wouldn’t survive them (32-1).
In the novel there has been many images and suspense working around civilians and Mark himself. Mark spitz kept his eyes open and watched his environment for cues, a survivalist (11-1). There has been many scenerios where Mark encounters many civilians not making it and becoming massacred by the …show more content…

There’s no way he can live in a society where reality is at fear. Even though Mark faces reality there has been so much he as lost from the beginning of the novel. For example they specifically let us know exactly how much of life as been remained and how much that has been lost. “It was impossible to find a gossip magazine or newsweekly that had been published beyond a certain date. There was no more gossip and no more news” (13-1). I began to realize that Mark knows that things will never get back to normal and “once” is a really long time since history is erased. I was curious to know weather they were trying to help themselves or the community. The lieutenant’s casual attitude was facilitated by the fact that the sweepers’ primary targets were stragglers. But I was wondering weather the lieutenant really cared about the people working for him. They said why couldn’t the lieutenant maintain his shrine? This got me realizing that is the lieutenant doing this to survive for his own convinence or is he do this for a better

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