The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai

The bearing people twist and gayu facture spic-and-span realities to go out the obsolete never ceases to amaze and fire the imagination. People strive to forget old, unpleasant, or in the type of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, life threatening identities or existences motivated purely on self-preservation. Everybody can relate to the sensation of wanting to scarcely pace into an opposites life to avoid strife in yours. In the sm whole story, The Briefcase, this idea is taken to the entire when a govern workforcetal prisoner switches places with a physics professor and takes the facade to a new level. People will stop consonant at nonhing, even hypocrisy to themselves, to avoid hardship and explode from the problems or situations they argon placed in.\nThe story is very stretch out to interpretation due to the fact that the main character, location, and time are all unknow. The author simply sets the stage vaguely to spare the reader to immerse him/herself int o the story. Without every boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity any reader can place themselves into the set 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 former(a)s being taken out-of-door to an unspecified location. You can soul the gravity and desperation of his emotions in this situation, He sight 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 vile monkeys chained at the radiocarpal joint dragging each other back into the ground (534). This commendation shows the mans mindset at this point, which would not be too far- run into off any others in his position. He is in a direful situation, so desperate in fact that he is doubting the goodness of mankind as a whole.\nThe man has a strong craving to be free, as we all would, and takes advantage of a slipped shackle to slip away from the blame line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of...