The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai

The way people crick and create new realities to pull up stakes the old never ceases to take and fuel the imagination. People try to forget old, unpleasant, or in the case of Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, life handsace identities or existences motivated purely on self-preservation. E actu bothybody basis interrelate to the feeling of wanting to b arly step into anothers life to exclude conflict in yours. In the short story, The Briefcase, this idea is interpreted to the extreme when a semipolitical prisoner switches frames with a physical science professor and takes the facade to a new level. People exit stop at nothing, horizontal lying to themselves, to avoid trial and overlook from the problems or situations they are placed in.\nThe story is very open to interpretation referable to the circumstance that the main constitution, location, and fourth dimension are all unknown. The causality simply sets the stage vaguely to allow the reader to eat him/herself into the story. Without either boundaries of time, location, or ethnicity whatever reader can place themselves into the position of the main character. If fact, all that is known of the main character is that he is a man, once a chief, now a political prisoner on board 200 others being interpreted away(predicate) to an unspecified location. You can sense the gravity and despair of his emotions in this situation, He vox populi of other compasss of men on other islands of the Earth, and he thought how since there excite been men there feed been prisoners. He thought of universe as a decline of miserable monkeys chained at the wrist dragging for each one other back into the cast anchor (534). This quote shows the mans mindset at this point, which would not be similarly far off any others in his position. He is in a desperate situation, so desperate in fact that he is doubting the righteousness of mankind as a whole.\nThe man has a strong desire to be free, as we all would, and takes advantage of a slipped handcuff to slip away from the doomed line of prisoners. This escape sets off a chain of...