HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Spree Killer, Natural Disaster, Making Money
11 Apr 2017
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Kutar tried to commit suicide but fails, one character that despises life always running away from something and has a guilty conscious: he is running from the law, always looking over his shoulder. Who cares, what"s the point rampage killing in war without the thought of consequences the value of struggle for something, is not determined by the goal: you don"t struggle to live thinking you"ll live forever. The novel is about a plague that we do not understand: a plague meaning a deathly disease that kills people and spreads, there"s no defense and can strike at any time, some theories of how it spreads. The plague has multiple meanings and the meanings become more explicit: the plague on one hand is a natural disaster, can also represent mortality the general sickness, people fall down the stairs, etc. Caring for others who are sick/ suffering, and how society cares for its own is a questionable thing.
