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Rat Snap Research Paper

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Eventually, the stress made Rat snap and turned him from a brave medic to a paranoid and crazed man who desperately wanted to escape. He started talking on and on about bugs, “swarms of mutant bugs, billions of them, they had him bracketed. Whispering his name… all night long-- it was driving him crazy.”(209-10) He started scratching at his bug bites till they bled and even then he wouldn’t stop. It wasn’t just the bugs that stayed on his mind. His job as a medic had exposed him to countless corpses and injuries and “[he] start to picture how [his friends] look dead. Without arms or legs… he couldn’t shut off the pictures.”(211) Seeing so many dead and heavily injured people must’ve made him paranoid and fear for his own life because he also

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