Consideration of the Pox Party

I truthfully really enjoy reading this book. It is very thought provoking. Outside the context of the story itself, there are subtleties that i really enjoy reading. For example, "You must learn fear...Fear is like happiness, but the smile is wider," can be interpreted to mean that if one expects things to be the worst, they will have their internal walls already prepared for impact.

At any rate, this book does a "novel" job (haha) at depicting the mad doctor. In the pursuit of knowledge, these people, specifically 03-01, transcend human morals in a quest for answers. It seems ironic that they ignore instinctual morality while admiring instinct in the scene where they venture out to race on four "legs". I also like that the book touched onto the subject of power and control as we have been discussing it in class; and even more impressively, it did so at the end of a chapter, with one bold statement, emphasizing it to be of importance. I suspect it to be a recurring theme in this book.