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Lost in thought, Boaz discusses his and Unk's current predicament on Mercury: "All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over" (205). Discuss the significance of this comment to the novel as a whole.
The novel is deeply concerned with the question of free will, and Boaz's comment can be seen as a possible response to the question of whether or not humans have free will. For Boaz, the question of whether or not man has free will is irrelevant because whether or not man has free will does not change the way he will act. Either his...
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