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Coates Academy's 'Plague'

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I am reading Plague, which is the fourth novel in the Gone series, and I am on page 108. I will also be referencing Hunger, which is the third novel in the series, one or two times. Hunger ended with Perdido Beach ablaze during a fight between the mutants and normal. Mary also attempted to commit a mass suicide with the children that she cares for because she thought that dying would take them home, but this fails due to the heroics of Dehra. During the beginning of Plague, an infectious disease infects three girls who all live in the same household, and these girls end up passing away. Then, Sam and a group of mutants are sent to investigate new sources of water for Perdido Beach as their current water supply is running dangerously low. Sam …show more content…

To begin, they live in a worry free area of the Fallout Alley Youth Zone. This is illustrated by this quote by Diana, “It was amazing what decent food could do for a starving girl,” (Grant 14). This quote shows that the island that they now live on contains enough supplies to remove the need to ration food. The kids can eat as much as they would have before the FAYZ had been synthesized. Being well fed can improve one’s looks, emotional state, and thought process. With these three noted points in a good state, people will function normally, and they will have no reason to fight because they will be able to analyze situations and avoid making rash decisions. As shown, the overabundance of food shows how much of a heaven the island in which they live on is. Also, the island is free of the darkness’s control. The darkness used to inhabit the minds of the Coates Academy members, and no matter what time or place the darkness would always linger in their minds. It would alter their personalities in such a large amount as to cause them to commit the atrocious act of murder. The darkness is a powerful entity, and the inhabitants of the FAYZ are its pawns. Being free of darkness is being free of a constant over looming depression that can change people in ways unimaginable. This is the reason as to why Coates Academy has discovered a heaven on the FAYZ. Additionally, the Coates Academy group does not need to work to survive on the island. The food is already there for them, and all they have to do is relax. After the yearlong ordeal of barely surviving, a few weeks of relaxing and being well fed will be blissful to the Coates Academy kids. All the children have to do is sit back and relax. Clearly, not needing to work to survive removes stress from the kid’s lives, which further shows how much of a paradise they inhabit. Next, the teenagers

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