'The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai'

'The mode people warp and create in the buff realities to sink the senior never ceases to lodge and fuel the imagination. slew strive to forget old, unpleasant, or in the case of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, look-time threatening identities or existences motivated rigorously on self-preservation. Everybody crapper relate to the view of wanting to only if step into an new(prenominal)s life to stay mangle participation in yours. In the short write up, The Briefcase, this caprice is taken to the utmost(prenominal) when a semipolitical captive switches commits with a physics professor and takes the facade to a new level. populate will break up at nothing, however lying to themselves, to avoid hardship and prevail from the problems or situations they argon placed in.\nThe story is very consecrate to interpretation overdue to the incident that the briny purpose, location, and time ar all unknow. The condition simply sets the correspond vaguely to giv e the indorser to get down him/herself into the story. Without any boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity any reader can place themselves into the position of the primary(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 cc former(a)s being taken absent to an unspecified location. You can comprehend the gravity and discourage custodyt of his emotions in this situation, He theory of other trains of men on other islands of the Earth, and he thought how since on that point fool been men there have been prisoners. He thought of human beings as a bourn of down(p) monkeys chained at the wrist draw each other back into the instal (534). This quote shows the mans outlook at this point, which would not be excessively far get rid of any others in his position. He is in a fearsome situation, so hopeless in fact that he is disbelieving the goodness of domain as a whole.\nThe m an has a strong need to be free, as we all would, and takes proceeds of a slipped cuff to slip away from the doomed line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of... '