The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai

The appearance people twist and get to impudent realities to blank out the grizzly never ceases to amaze and kindle the imagination. People strive to forget old, unpleasant, or in the flake of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, life threatening identities or existences motivated purely on self-preservation. Everybody can relate to the tonicity of wanting to scarcely footmark into an some other(a)s life to avoid combat in yours. In the lilliputian story, The Briefcase, this idea is taken to the innate when a policy-making captive switches places with a physics professor and takes the facade to a new level. People will impedi gentlemans gentlemanpowert at nonhing, even hypocrisy to themselves, to avoid hardship and unravel from the problems or situations they atomic number 18 primed(p) in.\nThe story is very undecided to interpretation due to the concomitant that the main character, location, and time are all in all unknow. The author simply sets the stage vagu ely to take into account the subscriber to immerse him/herself into the story. Without any(prenominal) boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity any reader can place themselves into the stain of the main character. If fact, all that is known of the main character is that he is a man, once a chief, now a political prisoner alongside two hundred others being taken forward to an unspecified location. You can sniff out the gravity and desperation of his emotions in this situation, He judgement of other chains of men on other islands of the Earth, and he thought how since there have been men there have been prisoners. He thought of populace as a line of moving monkeys chained at the wrist dragging each other back into the ground (534). This name shows the mans mindset at this point, which would not be too faraway off any others in his position. He is in a heroical situation, so desperate in fact that he is doubting the goodness of mankind as a whole.\nThe man has a stro ng want to be free, as we all would, and takes advantage of a slipped shackle to slip away from the doom line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of...