War

While attempting to do about 50 million other things last evening I thought about what I could possibly write in a blog...nothing....so went to bed and woke up realizing something strange, even today there is the type of isolation that is spoken of within the book. 

Within class we have discussed and compared it the Garden of Eden, but why not something darker? I look at current Wars or "conflicts" that are taking place around the world. We are one of the lucky countries to not have a war on our own soil. Not having to worry about much of what others are worrying about. Yet, those that are experiencing that must have some type of isolated feeling. A feeling of uncertainty and concern. Some decide to isolate themselves from the problem, yet are unable. So people stand together having a commonality among themselves. I see much of that within book the novel and within certain societies today that are plagued with war. Many that are plagued with war wish to be isolated and have no choice letting people into their country no matter how uninvited they are. 

Isolation can be caused by many things, but the one that is the most horrifying is war. The feeling of isolation is two-fold, wanting to stay under the radar, but also feeling that there is no one else that is living the way that you are. This is a large reason for isolation of an entire city and just seems to coincide with what was going on during the writing of the book as well. A perfect reason for isolation.