What Makes The Bad Guys In Mark Spitz's World

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Their morals also have a change because of these post-apocalyptic worlds. How they see other people is dramatically different than how normal people do today. The man can clearly see other people as the threat to him and his son. Since everyone is out for themselves, they are will to do anything in order to survive. This would also include killing other people in order to get their supplies and also to eat them if there are starving. the man knows this and it always alarmed when he sees other people for a distance. He also calls them "bad guys" (McCarthy, 94) to his son. This is a way of teaching his son that all people cannot be trusted because most of them are out to get them which is what makes the "bad guys". In Mark Spitz’s world

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