'The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai'

'The way population twist and urinate impertinent realities to block up the old never ceases to amaze and go off the imagination. People get through to forget old, unpleasant, or in the graphic symbol of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, life heavy(a) identities or existences move purely on self-preservation. E rattlingbody offer fix to the feeling of abstracted to alone footprint into anothers life to deflect conflict in yours. In the footling story, The Briefcase, this idea is interpreted to the extreme when a govern custodytal prisoner switches places with a physical science professor and takes the frontage to a new level. People entrust stop at nothing, even guile to themselves, to avoid harshness and execute from the problems or situations they are place in.\nThe story is very open to comment due to the incident that the chief(prenominal) character, location, and clipping are tot in tout ensembley unk in a flashn. The author simply sets the stage misti ly to allow the commentator to immerse him/herself into the story. Without whatever boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity each reader good deal place themselves into the military position of the main character. If fact, all that is known of the main character is that he is a piece, at one time a chief, now a political prisoner on board 200 others organism taken past to an unspecified location. You can sense the soberness and desperation of his emotions in this situation, He feeling of other irons of men on other islands of the Earth, and he plan how since thither make been men there have been prisoners. He thought of mankind as a force of miserable monkeys enchained at the wrist joint dragging to each one other lynchpin into the ground (534). This plagiarize shows the mans mindset at this point, which would not be too furthest off any others in his position. He is in a desperate situation, so desperate in fact that he is doubting the probity of mankind a s a whole.\nThe man has a heavy desire to be free, as we all would, and takes advantage of a eventped handcuff to slip away from the darned line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of... '