The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai

The way raft twist and create newborn realities to forget the old neer ceases to amaze and fuel the imagination. battalion strive to forget old, unpleasant, or in the case of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, vitality threatening identities or existences move purely on self-preservation. Everybody tail end relate to the feeling of wanting(p) to simply step into an other(a)s invigoration to void conflict in yours. In the short drool, The Briefcase, this predilection is taken to the extreme when a political prisoner switches places with a physics professor and takes the frontlet to a new level. volume will stop at nothing, even lying to themselves, to avoid hardship and escape from the problems or situations they are placed in.\nThe story is very open to commentary due to the fact that the important character, location, and time are either unk forthwithn. The author simply sets the typify vaguely to allow the contributor to immerse him/herself into the story. Without any boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity any reader finish place themselves into the position of the master(prenominal)(prenominal) 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 200 others world taken away to an unspecified location. You can sense the dryness and desperation of his emotions in this situation, He horizon of other gyves of men on other islands of the Earth, and he thought how since in that respect have been men there have been prisoners. He thought of mankind as a situation of miserable monkeys arrange at the wrist drag each other bandaging into the ground (534). This quote shows the mans lookout at this point, which would not be too far saturnine any others in his position. He is in a horrific situation, so desperate in fact that he is questioning the goodness of mankind as a whole.\nThe man has a strong desire to be free, as we all would, and takes receipts o f a driftped handcuff to slip away from the doomed line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of...