Theme

Have you ever been in a life or death situation? Probably not. Mainly all of us day to day people haven’t. We try to keep to ourselves not bother other people, go to school or go to work, go home watch some TV eat sleep and do it all again the next day. In the novel “Among The Free” Luke the main character has a new adventure of life or death situations every day. Ever since the population police had made it where third children were illegal Luke had to be hidden from everyone. Not knowing whether he was going to get caught and killed or be unseen and safe, that isn’t a life anyone should have to live. He eventually is able to be out in the open but with a fake name and I.D. Still it doesn’t help his situation being a population police officer himself. Luke is faced with a life or death situation when he is handed a gun and told to shoot an old women who disobeyed the population police order to go to the towns center for new I.Ds. He Can either shoot the old woman or drop the gun and have a huge chance of getting killed by the population police for being disobedient. No kid should be given a gun to kill an elder. Luke has been put through more life and death situations than anyone I’ve ever heard about.