Phase Two: Cell (Part 1)

 October 1, God was in His heaven, the stock market stood at 10,140, and most of the planes were on time (except for those landing and taking off in Chicago, and that was to be expected). Two weeks later the skies belonged to the birds again and the stock market was a memory. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood, but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. It was as if it had been waiting to go. On"

     Cell, by Stephen King, tells the story of a dying world where humans become zombies with a telepathic connection. Though the main cause of the downfall is technology, the novel contains the downfall of the human environment, the focus of my efforts.

    In today's sheltered society, we're given too much to work with. We raise our food as cattle; There's no hunting or risk of failure. However, Cell presents a world where a select few are left "alive" and are hunted a an overwhelming pack of predators. The novel examines a Predator Vs. Prey relationship and how we would react to having our environment suddenly taken from us.

    Throughout the novel, the main characters are fighting against nature, adventuring forth with modern - now useless - knowledge.