Comparing When It Changed And Colin M. Drysdale's Last Flight Out

Set in a time when the end of the world became reality Joanna Russ’ When It Changed and Colin M. Drysdale’s Last Flight Out each described a society where an outside force changed the way the society was established. Although the characters in both stories were presented with challenges such as being unwanted in a one gender based society, being threatened by an unforeseen group or being scarified for the greater good both Mankind from planet Earth, the women from planet Whileaway and the pilot presented themselves with the perseverance to survive. The group of men who landed on the planet of Whileaway had only one objective, which was to reproduce with the women of that planet in order to continue their own lineage while the women’s objective on that planet was to defend their own society based on an all female population that they had to establish after the extinction of men and the pilot’s objective to escape Scotland and go away from the infected population without getting infected himself. The characters were …show more content…
Drysdale takes place in Scotland where an infection breaks out and the main character is faced with physical setback that leads to him actually fighting for his life. The pilot was left to die after being told that there would be someone to come back for him. The pilot narrates his findings and emotions and this can be seen when he states “When I’d taken off a few hours before, I’d done it in a rush and checking to see how much fuel was on board had hardly been my top priority; instead it was getting out alive”(Drysdale, 2013). The pilot’s determination to survive can be seen as he desperately searches for ways out and he focuses on escaping so much that he forgets to check the fuel of his aircraft. This can relate to his perseverance to survive because the pilot would do anything to escape without getting infected and since surviving was his top priority, he becomes unaware which made it a problem for