The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai

The way people twist and become b atomic number 18-ass realities to parry the octogenarian never ceases to amaze and arouse the imagination. People strive to forget old, unpleasant, or in the field of study of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, life threatening identities or existences motivated purely on self-preservation. Everybody can relate to the touch sensation of wanting to exclusively touchstone into an new(prenominal)s life to avoid participation in yours. In the inadequate story, The Briefcase, this idea is taken to the intense when a political captive switches places with a physics professor and takes the facade to a new level. People will wiretap at nothing, even cunning to themselves, to avoid hardship and unravel from the problems or situations they are determined in.\nThe story is very cleared to interpretation due to the concomitant that the main character, location, and time are all told un cognise. The author simply sets the stage vaguely to acc ommodate the indorser to immerse him/herself into the story. Without whatsoever boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity any reader can place themselves into the direct of the main character. If fact, all that is known of the main character is that he is a gentleman, once a chief, now a political prisoner alongside two hundred other(a)s being taken away to an unspecified location. You can whiz the gravity and desperation of his emotions in this situation, He eyeshot of other chains of hands on other islands of the Earth, and he thought how since there have been men there have been prisoners. He thought of military personnel as a line of moving monkeys chained at the carpus dragging each other back into the ground (534). This acknowledgment shows the mans mindset at this point, which would not be too utmost make any others in his position. He is in a dire situation, so desperate in fact that he is doubting the goodness of mankind as a whole.\nThe man has a strong require to be free, as we all would, and takes advantage of a slipped manacle to slip away from the unredeemed line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of...