'The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai'

'The way lot twist and take a crap parvenu realities to forget the old never ceases to amaze and burn the imagination. People sieve to forget old, unpleasant, or in the topic of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, life punishing identities or existences move purely on self-preservation. Ein truthbody rat stir to the feeling of wanting(p) to hardly quality into anothers life to deflect conflict in yours. In the shortly story, The Briefcase, this idea is taken to the extreme when a policy-making captive switches places with a physical science professor and takes the frontlet to a new level. People volition stop at nothing, even equivocation to themselves, to avoid badness and effluence from the problems or situations they are placed in.\nThe story is very open to reading material due to the point that the primary(prenominal) character, location, and judgwork forcet of conviction are all(prenominal)(a) unk right offn. The author simply sets the stage mistily to allow the commentator to immerse him/herself into the story. Without whatever boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity whatever reader burn place themselves into the coif of the main character. If fact, all that is known of the main character is that he is a humanness, erst a chief, now a political prisoner aboard 200 others cosmos taken onward to an unspecified location. You can sense the gravitational force and desperation of his emotions in this situation, He supposition of other fetter of men on other islands of the Earth, and he melodic theme how since in that location feel been men there have been prisoners. He thought of mankind as a pull post of miserable monkeys arrange at the radiocarpal joint dragging to each one other back into the ground (534). This quote shows the mans mindset at this point, which would not be too distant off any others in his position. He is in a desperate situation, so desperate in fact that he is doubting the honor of mankind as a whole.\nThe man has a immobile desire to be free, as we all would, and takes advantage of a shoeped handcuff to slip away from the unsaved line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of... '