The Marrow Thieves

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At the beginning of “A Plague of Madness” Wab asks “Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?” (53). Miig attempts to answer this question by talking about how characters in a book he read respond to being quarantined, and how the doctor in the story stays close to his inherent nature by giving everything he has to help the people get better. After being further questioned, Miig goes on to explain that people do what they need to do in order to survive. Do you agree with this idea? What would you do to help yourself and the ones you love (your family) survive? Would you, as both Chi-Boy and Wab say, do anything and everything?

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This is only a short-answer space and you have many questions here. Miig believes that people are motivated by outside forces, and he says that the Native Americans who are running for their lives and the non-Native Americans who are chasing them are all intent on survival. To make his point, he asks what each member of the group would do to save the group, and they say there is no limit to what they would do for the security of their family-group. Wab reveals that she saw two men during a recent hunt, and that they were informants for the Recruiters. I think people have the propensity to do bad things. Human history is full of examples of horrible things that people do: we have never been peaceful.