Z For Zachariah Character Analysis

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The world’s population is over 7.5 billion people! Most people live in bustling cities or areas with over thousands of people. The average person meets and interacts with several people every day, and these interactions with other humans are incorporated and they play a big role their lives. In Robert C O'Brien’s “Z for Zachariah” we are introduced to a post-apocalyptic world in which a fifteen-year-old girl is left to live a life of her own. She survives by herself pretty well the first couple of months but is slowly going crazy alone. Later, a figure in a green suit approaches the valley and changes Ann’s thoughts about the valley forever. The lack of characters in “Z for Zachariah” provides for an interesting relationship between John and Ann.
It made it easier for Ann to forgive John for his disgraceful actions since Ann wished she had someone to talk to and socialize with for a long time. Going without talking to someone for a long period of time can make you go
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Loomis if she had too. The anger that brewed within her after Mr. Loomis burned her cave and her book “Short Stories of England and America”, which Mr. Loomis knew that she valued heavily, was a violent rage. She even stated herself that she wanted to hurt him badly for it. She would’ve still tried to avoid killing him, as she didn’t want to be a murderer, but if she came across him like they did at the end of the book, she may have killed him, knowing that there were other people alive somewhere. Also, if Mr. Loomis encountered these other people they probably wouldn’t be as forgiving as Ann and would’ve possibly imprisoned him or killed him for his acts upon Ann. All in all, Ann didn’t know that there were other people left in the world, so at the end she didn’t kill him and instead persuaded him to let her go, since she didn’t want him to die considering he might be the last person alive on the planet other than

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