The Road to Winter, Mark Smith (2016) is a riveting novel that covers many aspects of survival in times of crisis including teamwork and cooperation. While it is reasonable to believe that it would be easier to survive alone, the benefits of teamwork outweigh any cons that may exist.
People make great trading partners in times where items necessary for survival are unavailable and different people offer different luxuries. Gangs such as the Wilders spread fear and carnage throughout the entire novel proving that there is strength in numbers and it is not just superior to travelling alone but is also much safer. Finn also feels a sense of loneliness for much of the book and decides he needs others to alleviate this feeling.
When the basics that are usually taken for granted are lost, the best people to get resources off are the people surrounding you. Different people are equipped with different benefits in times of crisis and sharing these benefits is the most efficient way to survive. Finn and Ray are trade partners from the beginning through to the end of The Road to Winter and it is evident that they both reap the benefits. Finn makes this clear when he states that “[him] …show more content…
Ray definitely guides Finn’s decisions and when Finn is around he never fails to make conversation. All of this amounts to making sense of change and elaborating on it with others, raising both parties’ understanding of the problem at hand.
Mark Smith’s The Road to Winter did not fail to highlight the fact that it isn’t every man for himself in a time of survival. The novel did this through civilised trading and its beneficial factors, the strength in numbers given to gangs and other groups in The Road to Winter and how sympathising with others is the best way to make sense of unpredictable
People make great trading partners in times where items necessary for survival are unavailable and different people offer different luxuries. Gangs such as the Wilders spread fear and carnage throughout the entire novel proving that there is strength in numbers and it is not just superior to travelling alone but is also much safer. Finn also feels a sense of loneliness for much of the book and decides he needs others to alleviate this feeling.
When the basics that are usually taken for granted are lost, the best people to get resources off are the people surrounding you. Different people are equipped with different benefits in times of crisis and sharing these benefits is the most efficient way to survive. Finn and Ray are trade partners from the beginning through to the end of The Road to Winter and it is evident that they both reap the benefits. Finn makes this clear when he states that “[him] …show more content…
Ray definitely guides Finn’s decisions and when Finn is around he never fails to make conversation. All of this amounts to making sense of change and elaborating on it with others, raising both parties’ understanding of the problem at hand.
Mark Smith’s The Road to Winter did not fail to highlight the fact that it isn’t every man for himself in a time of survival. The novel did this through civilised trading and its beneficial factors, the strength in numbers given to gangs and other groups in The Road to Winter and how sympathising with others is the best way to make sense of unpredictable