The Dead And the Gone

    Right now I’m reading the book called "The Dead and the Gone" in this book I find it really interesting because the events lead to how people trust each other. For example the main character Alex finds himself at home taking care for his two sisters without any help, this happened because the moon just got hit by a meteor and its critically too close to the earth. Now New York City is in a state of chaos, people looting food and supplies desperate to survive this disaster, Alex is all alone. Alex is having a hard time doing this all by himself, also at the same time he's worried about his parents.
     He’s worried because they have no information to where they are right now, his mother is stuck in a hospital and his dad is stuck in Puerto Rico. I think right now Alex needs his two sisters more than anything because if it weren’t for them keeping him "running" he would be in a breakdown. He needs his two sitter’s support more than anything because he doesn't know what will happen if things don’t get better soon. His sisters help him realize that right now the most important thing is to stay focused and stay on track.
    I think Alex is under a lot of stress because it feels like nothing are going to go back to normal, everything is so different and it to happen all of a sudden it's very terrifying for him. Alex constantly puts his sisters first because once he was worried about them, this shows how much he cares about them. An example of this is when Alex find and steal from dead people that died from the meteor and take their belongings to a tailor shop where he trades for food, and things that are in need of survival. He takes the food and gives more of them to his sisters than himself which proves that he is more worried about his sisters rather than himself.
    He is also under a lot of stress because when the school is closed down, their family basically gets no food at all and doesn't even get the free meals that the school provides, making his family more harsh. They also don't even get food in the winter which is extremely cold and stressful, living in the winter without food is like living in the desert. Finally they get sent to a place with electricity, heat, and fresh water which is lucky for them.