Entry 8 (possibly 9) “The Boy at the End of the World” Greg van Eekhout

Page 112 is where I read up to from 87 in this book. I came across some weird events in the story where Fisher the boy who is keen on surviving and has a feeling that he needs to find out about more of how he was made into this wild ravaged world. He is buddied with a Robot click which helps him with what dangers he must face in the world, and a big woolly mammoth “Protein” who is the strength and defence throughout this part in the book;  Fisher desperately wants to eat protein but tries not to because he makes a big effort of moving things, and scaring little pests like rats the size of Fisher. Fisher realises his world around him that he needs to survive because he is made that way genetically by scientists long before he was born in order to save the human race. Weirdly the book has features of the world that is different than the modern one. River whales, parrots larger than eagles, extinct mammoths, flesh eating man rodents, and buzzing patrol drones trained to kill roam this vast habitat where Fisher faces. Psychologically Fisher realises he wants more than to survive, he wants to know what happened to the human race and find if there is anymore. Fisher does know that he feels something in his ‘gut’ that there maybe human life in a colony in the south where can solve his answers.