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The Black Truck and a zombie parade. In comparison to the three hunters the guys from the last chapter, in the black truck they were actual hunters, predators, and they could read the signs that our hero had been there recently. Not that they were hard to read he did cut heads off. So he goes from possibility being found by the zombies to being found by the Black Truck people. It raises the question which one is actually worse?
A lot of questions like that presented themselves in this short chapter. It kind of gets to that point doesn't it? Even in life, you go from day to day and not much changes then something does change and you have to decide how you will react, how you will adopt, how you will stand and on what side of that issue be it Coke or Pepsi or some greater more important issue.
A moral quarrel, This discussion between our two hero's I think not only shows this but also I think shows just how much ahead of him she is in adopting to the new world. And it's always going to be that way someone will adopt to things and move on much faster than another person. The other person will not accept change and cling to the "old ways" with some bit of nostalgia for something that was familiar and comfortable but actually nothing like they remember it.
I suppose being a military brat, moving around so much I can at this age look back with some retrospection and see how quickly I and other brats adopted to change while others who never lived that gypsy lifestyle and barely moved from their comfort zone had a much harder time when change occurred. I don't know, it's a debate that can go on for a long time and in many different directions.
Our hero's however in their debate shows my perspective fairly well. She has decided to move forward and he is still trying to hand on to a humanity that will get him killed. I believe we can say she has not become vicious or cold blooded but practical and stronger than him. Which reflects something I believe strongly, women are stronger than men. Perhaps not in physical strength but in everything else women are stronger.
Although this is written as his diary of events I think we can see that as the story goes on he is not so much the hero but the sidekick with a moral dilemma between the new and the old. She is forging on and he is struggling.
The combination to the gun safe. Can you imagine their frustration earlier when he realized the page family were doomsday preppers and they had a gun safe but they couldn't find the combination to the damned thing? She absentmindedly stuffs a piece of paper into her pocket and forgets about it only to look at it later to realize it's the combination?
What a common human action. I know I do it all the time, pick up things and forget I had them. punch an important number into my phone only t forget to add the name. My world is mapped out by sticky notes surrounding my monitor, stuffed in my wallet and plastered on the bathroom mirror when it's really important.
Right now on my desk I have a note that simply says 11078, I have no idea what it means, where it came from or anything. It's not in my handwriting so one of my coworkers thought it was important and stuck it there, eventually someone will say something to me and it will all make since. But for now. 11078 is a mystery.
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