What People will do to Survive

“This is an expository piece on the theme “Will to Survive” on the book’s Zach’s Lie and Jack’s Run by Roland Smith. I will talk about how the theme fits into both books and how it fits into the series.”

In the Zach’s Lie series, Jack Osborne (Zack) and his family are endangered by a drug cartel after their father is arrested for helping the drug cartel smuggle drugs into other countries by plane. The drug cartels leader Alonzo thinks Jack’s father knows too much and he is a danger to his business. Many people wouldn’t be scared, but the Osborne’s were and they would go to any measure to keep their family safe. Many people will do extreme things to survive even going to different places or even changing their identity to live a peaceful life, living a good life could be the most important thing to a human being.  The will to survive is in all of us, we will have to use our survival techniques sometime in our lives.

Even though there are two books in the series they both have the same theme. In Zach’s Lie this is where the real story begins, Zach and his family find out the hard way that his father has been doing dangerous life threatening work. The real theme starts to kick in when their family is put into witness family protection, which is just one of the few things they have done to survive this whole situation. They had to change their names, their hair colors, their eye colors, and even their lifestyles. The Osborne’s went from riches to rags, they had to become poorer and move to some random town in Nevada to survive which is another reason that proves the theme in book one. Also when Zach meets this girl he likes named Caitlin, he can’t tell her anything about what happened because he needs to survive and he does not want the bad guys to find him or his family. Those are just a few of the main points that make the theme “Will to Survive”.

In the second book Jack’s Run, there are a few examples of this theme in this second book. One type is quite similar to the first book and it is they had to move to another town, and change everything using witness protection again because Alonzo and his men found where they were before. Also more between the middle and end of the story Zach and his sister get captured by Alonzo’s brother, they have to use their minds in places they never have before. That is another piece symbolism of the theme of “Will to Survive”, also Zach even shot this one woman because she was going to kill him if he didn’t do anything to protect himself. Those are a few examples of the theme in the second book Jack’s Run.

In the end Zach and his family had to use their sense of survival to survive. Generally people wouldn’t believe that two books have the same theme, but these too books do. They both fit nicely into the theme “Will to survive” because in both books they are trying to survive and they would end up doing anything to stay alive. Both stories have their own ways of this theme, but there is some that are similar in both. The main reasons why they are the same is that in both books they are constantly in hiding from the cartels, and they can’t tell people who they really are so they can survive. Many things are the same in the series but they both have their own unique type of example for “Will to survive”.