Chapter11: We start out chapter eleven with Randy and Lib getting married on Easter Sunday. The wedding was a short one with mainly the close friends of Randy and Lib attending. Immediately after the wedding Randy, Malachai, Bill McGovern, and Sam Hazzard began working on a route that would allow them to cover the most ground without using all their gas. Randy found out that the highway man killed Mr. and Mrs. Hickey the night before, (the man who gave Randy honey to help the kids with the sugar issue) Randy went into a fit of rage for a brief moment before calming down reminding himself that he needs to keep his composure to make the plan a success. Before they were about to hit the road and search for the bandits Malachai wanted a change to the plan. Malachai wanted himself to drive the van. The reason for this was the bandits might seem more inclined or safer to rob a van with a minority driving it than a white male. Randy was furious about the change to the plan but after more thinking Randy agreed to Malachai's change in the plan thinking that it would give them the greatest success. After awhile of traveling their route looking for the highwaymen Randy noticed they were being followed. They realized that they were being herded into a dead end where they would meet the rest of the gang. They kept going playing along with the highwaymen's plan and ended up being boxed in on a bridge a little ways down the road. They succeeded in defeating the highwaymen but at the cost of Malachai's life, the next day they hung the prisoner in the town square with a sign saying that looting or any actions of such are punishable by hanging.
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Analysis of chapter 11:
Chapter 11 lots of things happen that are crucial to the story. The story loses a important character that has helped out Randy's group immensely. The highwaymen that almost beat Dan Gunn to death and have been terrorizing the town have been taken care of. Each character of the story grew stronger as an individual and as a group from overpassing this obstacle.
Chapter 11 lots of things happen that are crucial to the story. The story loses a important character that has helped out Randy's group immensely. The highwaymen that almost beat Dan Gunn to death and have been terrorizing the town have been taken care of. Each character of the story grew stronger as an individual and as a group from overpassing this obstacle.
Chapter 12: The beginning of chapter twelve has Admirals radio dying for good, and with it the only communication to the outside world. It then skips to June where Bill McGovern and Two-Tone made their first batch of corn whiskey it has no usefulness in its beginning stages to the other people of the group but to Dan Gunn it perfect for a bunch of medical uses. The book then skips to July and starts out with Alice bringing books back from the library about hypnotism, Dan learns hypnotism to use it as an anesthesia. A week later Ben Franklin had pain in his stomach caused by a inflamed appendix. Dan used his hypnosis strategy as an anesthesia and started to operate on Ben, he was successful in pulling out Ben's appendix that was close to bursting. It then jumps to August where the town was hit with salt starvation. With no salt the town could not operate and soon everyone wanted salt. Another problem in August was that all the fish were disappearing from the streams. Without fish Randy's group could not eat, without food Randy's group would die of starvation. This was a problem that everyone worked together to fix but no one could do it. They started asking questions about if the water was poisoned but Dan Gunn explained that if the water was poisoned the fish would've died out a long time ago. Everyone was at a loss to the problem, everyone except Peyton. Peyton knew something, she walked up to Preacher (who was a very experienced fisherman) and asked him why the fish were not biting. Preacher explained that due to the heat the fish stayed in the middle of the river where the water was cooler. Peyton took the goldfish from Florence's fish tank and set sail on a boat to the middle of the river. Peyton drifted downstream, out of sight from the house. Everyone was scared that she was taking or fell into the river and drowned, but when Peyton came rowing back up the river with her haul of fish she was honored but not without punishment. Now with the fish problem solved there was still the problem of salt. Randy dug around in his chest for a journal of his great grandfathers. In this journal it talked of a similar problem he had while stationed in a fort during the civil war. He talked about an island not too far downstream where the sand was actually salt. Interested in this island as it may be their last hope for survival Randy set out on boats with people from Fort Repose. They came back with hauls of crab and fifty pound bags of salt each. The chapter skips to October where the food became abundant with oranges, turkeys, duck, quail, and chickens. Later Dan exclaims that there had finally been a live birth in the town and this shows great promise about the future of the human race and how the newborn where signs of the human race evolving to deal with their surroundings. Peyton finds precious things hidden in the attic of the house, one of them being a hand crank phonograph to which she was playing music out of. Randy and Lib are happy by her finds and declare her a heroine to the group!
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Analysis of chapter 12:
This chapter deals a lot about the struggle of food. Randy's group faces their problems head one and overcome them with information from the past and present. With this new knowledge they have they no longer have to worry about food and can safely live out their lives and wait for rescue from the outside world.
This chapter deals a lot about the struggle of food. Randy's group faces their problems head one and overcome them with information from the past and present. With this new knowledge they have they no longer have to worry about food and can safely live out their lives and wait for rescue from the outside world.
Chapter 13: The chapter begins with Dan telling Randy that he wants to marry Helen but does not do so out of fear and respect that her husband is still alive. In the month there was a low flying plane going over Fort Repose taking air samples of the surrounding area, a week later the same plane flew by and dropped leaflets of paper explaining the recent tests it was doing. The leaflets offered some hope from the outside world that the government was still functioning but more importantly it was good replacement for toilet paper. The chapter then jumps to December where a helicopter circled the Bragg household where the pilot waved at Helen and Lib. The next day the same helicopter landed in the lawn, two men got out and checked the area for radiation. After making sure the place was clear of radiation the men called for someone to come off the helicopter and join them. Randy wanting to know more about the outside world invited them to have eat lunch with them and have a few drinks. They explained that Fort Repose was inside the biggest clear zone they've ever seen, and how fortunate they were to have all these necessities that other places didn't have. They told them that they could come back and pick them up if they wanted to get out of this place but Randy and everyone else declined. They had everything they wanted in this place and they wouldn't change it for the world.
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Analysis of chapter 13:
They find out that the government is still functioning smoothly. They also gain knowledge that the outside world is not as fortunate as them in the resources that they have here. With this knowledge their group declines the offer of leaving Fort Repose to go to the outside world.
They find out that the government is still functioning smoothly. They also gain knowledge that the outside world is not as fortunate as them in the resources that they have here. With this knowledge their group declines the offer of leaving Fort Repose to go to the outside world.