Quarantine The Saints Analysis

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Appearances are but a mask, one which is crafted and molded to our benefit. This is true in everyday eventualities from applying for a job to even hypothetical scenarios such as the apocalypse where survival is a matter of not letting others know your weaknesses. For instance the writers of the series Quarantine: The Saints have adroitly layered out a story filled with half-truths and deceit, but also filled with an honest disposition of the characters trying to survive at all costs. This is especially true the sequel to Quarantine: The Loners. Where ordinary high school student’s lives destroyed in the previous book and now, we see their reactions. They have adapted, overcome and survived. Although if it’s for the better that they die or survive has yet to be resolved.
The Saints picks up almost directly after where the first book ended. With the main characters frantically fleeing towards freedom Will and his entire group of Loners has almost made it out when the inconceivable happens and they sealed back inside. With no food left and his position of power in the schools status quo in ruins: Will, Lucy and the handful of Loners …show more content…

The saints and the sinners I could make connections to each throughout the book. Furthermore, Lucy for one, having been the nearly aloof and saintly girl of the loners and eventually becoming one of the scariest members of the gangs to the new character introduced, Gates. An older teen who is infected as well with the virus the rest of the school is. At first he was the likable, popular, ladies’ man everyone seemed to enjoy. That is until Gates effectively creates a new gang in the school called the “The Saints.” With the help of other outsiders who also trapped inside the school campus when the airlock was destroyed, they enforced a form of hierarchy through force with the guns weapons they brought with

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